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Little Dalles Camp Site

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Title Little Dalles Camp Site
 
Description A view of the camp site at the Little Dalles during the winter of 1940. On Oct. 20, 1933 the Columbia Basin Commission authorized the Wallace Aerial Surveys of Spokane to make an aerial survey of the lands along the Columbia River from the Grand Coulee dam site to a point 70 miles upstream, on a bid of $4,800, or approximately $20 per square mile. This survey included the land to be flooded by the first unit, or low dam, and was necessary in order to expedite the engineering and also land...
A view of the camp site at the Little Dalles during the winter of 1940. On Oct. 20, 1933 the Columbia Basin Commission authorized the Wallace Aerial Surveys of Spokane to make an aerial survey of the lands along the Columbia River from the Grand Coulee dam site to a point 70 miles upstream, on a bid of $4,800, or approximately $20 per square mile. This survey included the land to be flooded by the first unit, or low dam, and was necessary in order to expedite the engineering and also land...
 
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/; Photographer Unknown
 
Creator Clifford R. Koester
 
Subject Dalles (Wash.) Clearing of land--Washington (State)--Columbia River Valley; Housing--Washington (State)--Contractor Camp
Laborers; Housing
 
Type Photograph
 
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
 
Identifier 709b1v2p210.jpg
http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/koester,1041
 
Date Winter, 1940
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 210)-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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