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    • Grand Coulee Dam Site

    • Grand Coulee Dam Site

    • Columbia River -- History; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.

    • Early work under way on both banks of the Columbia.
    • Trains Carrying Concrete

    • Trains Carrying Concrete

    • Concrete construction; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.

    • Concrete was carried from the mixing plant to the job site in four cubic yard buckets, which were loaded on flat cars, each carrying four of the buckets at a time. The trains ran out onto temporary trestle work, and cranes picked up the buckets,...
    • Hungry Horse Dam site

    • Hungry Horse Dam site

    • Dams -- Montana; Dam construction -- Montana; Hungry Horse Dam

    • Hungry Horse Dam is on the South Fork of the Flathead River in Montana. The dam was built as part of the Hungry Horse Project to provide hydroelectric power and flood control. At 564 feet, the dam is the 10th highest in the U.S.
    • Chemakane Mission

    • Chemakane Mission

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Tshimakain Mission (Wash.); Walker, Elkanah, 1805-1877; Eels, Cushing, 1810-1893

    • Chemakane Mission named for a nearby spring, was "occupied by Messrs. Walker and Eel; but, in 1849, in consequence of the Cayuse difficulties, it was abandoned." "The site of the mission is five miles from the Spokane River, in an...
    • Going on Shift

    • Going on Shift

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State)

    • Workers with lunches heading to the job site. Trestle and cranes for initial foundation work on Grand Coulee Dam in background.
    • Grand Coulee Dam from Pumping Plant Site

    • Grand Coulee Dam from Pumping Plant Site

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State); Columbia River -- History

    • Framed by a tunnel in the bedrock, the steel trestle and foundation level of Grand Coulee Dam stretch across the Columbia River.
    • Tower Removal

    • Tower Removal

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction; Construction equipment--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam;

    • Demolition of a tower which carried the conveyor belt for aggregate across the Columbia River below the Grand Coulee Dam site.
    • Building the Contractor’s Railroad

    • Building the Contractor’s Railroad

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction; Scrapers (Earthmoving machinery) ; Horse-drawn vehicles -- History

    • Construction of the temporary railroad from Coulee City to the dam site utilized methods common a half century earlier when the Northern Pacific built its branch to Coulee City. Horse drawn fresno scrapers are being used to grade the roadbed.
    • Before the Dam

    • Before the Dam

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.

    • Dam site before the start of construction of Grand Coulee Dam.
    • Grand Coulee Dam

    • Grand Coulee Dam

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.

    • Construction site at Grand Coulee Dam.
    • Coffer Dam Construction

    • Coffer Dam Construction

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.

    • Building the coffer dam at the site of Grand Coulee Dam.
    • Grand Coulee Dam at Night

    • Grand Coulee Dam at Night

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.

    • Time exposure showing the job site from downstream.
    • General View Looking Southwest

    • General View Looking Southwest

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.

    • Grand Coulee Dam construction at night. A time exposure utilizing the job site lighting.
    • Drillers

    • Drillers

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.

    • Working with air drills to remove fractured rock from the dam site before pouring the foundation for Grand Coulee Dam.
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