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Grand Coulee Township

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Title Grand Coulee Township
 
Description This view is looking west over part of the town of Grand Coulee, and Coulee center, as it appeared in 1937. During the CBI contract the towns around the dam were congested to the point that it was almost impossible to find a room in which to sleep, much less house a family. The canyon of the Grand Coulee extends off to the right in the background. Several more such construction towns are located in the Coulee; social phases of a great engineering project in the wilderness. In them live...
Grand Coulee Township was created during the "high ball" construction period whose population rapidly expanded during construction of the dam, and then just as quickly declined afterward.
 
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/; Photographer Unknown
 
Creator Clifford R. Koester
 
Subject Grand Coulee (Wash.)-Photographs; Housing--Washington (State)--Mason City
Housing; Frontier and pioneer life
 
Type Photograph
 
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
 
Identifier 709b1v2p172.jpg
http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/koester,1021
 
Date 1937
2008
 
Publisher Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
 
Source A History of the Columbia Basin Project (Vol. 2, Page 172)-Cage 709: Clifford R. Koester Papers, 1927-1972: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg709.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 were scanned at 24 bit 3000 pixels by the long side for master TIFF files on an Plustek OpticBook 3600 Plus. Also, 24 bit 150 PPI JPEGs were created with the OpticBook 3600 Plus and added to the CONTENTdm database at the WSU Libraries
 
Language English
 
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