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Equipment for construction, transportation, and maintenance--eucluid truck dumps granite in front of Grand Coulee

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Dam Construction in the Pacific Northwest, to view all visit http://contentdm.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fcrbproj
 
Title Equipment for construction, transportation, and maintenance--eucluid truck dumps granite in front of Grand Coulee
 
Creator Pomeroy, F.B.
 
Date 1950-07-11
 
Description Approximately 750,000 tons of granite will be used to loop the banks of the Columbia River below Grand Coulee Dam, protecting the shores against the 10-million horsepower in energy which the waves spent after their 350-foot fall over the dam. Above, 20-yard Euclid truck, with two motors and powered steering wheel, dumps a couple of big ones.
 
Subject Dams--Washington (State)--1940-1950;
 
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Grant County
Grand Coulee Dam
 
Source PG 94, Box 1, Folder Equipment for Construction, Transportation, and Maintenance, 3 22359
 
Identifier 94-3-22359
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Publisher University of Idaho Digital Initiatives
Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho Library: http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/
 
Language eng
 
Type Still Image
 
Format image/jpg
 
Rights Public Domain
 
Institute of Museum and Library Services National Endowment for the Humanities Greater Western Library Alliance