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First Girder Set in Place in the East Powerhouse

Washington State University Libraries

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Title First Girder Set in Place in the East Powerhouse
Description The first roof girder being placed in the east powerhouse. This photograph shows the first roof girder for the east power house being set in place by a lattice boom crane.
Creator United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Steel I-beams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Hydroelectric power plants--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Construction workers--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Lattice boom cranes (hoisting machinery)--Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Coverage Hoisting machinery; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Girders United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier cg040b07v10p157.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,4851
Date 8/15/1942 2010
Publisher Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Source Columbia Basin Project History (Vol. X, Page 157)-Cage 40, Box 07 of the Frank Arthur Banks Papers, 1913-1957: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg40.htm
Rights To order a reproduction please see: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/policies.htm; or contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691. For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
Format Original photographic prints scanned at 24 bit color, with 4000 pixels by the long side, for master TIFF files on an Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. Prints were then batch translated into JPEG files. These JPEGs were then added to the CONTENTdm database at WSU Libraries
Language English

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