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Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam & Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Across Columbia River, Southeast of Town of Grand Coulee, Grand Coulee, Grant County, WA
- Title: Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam & Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Across Columbia River, Southeast of Town of Grand Coulee, Grand Coulee, Grant County, WA
- Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator
- Related Names:
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier Company (MWAK)
Consolidated Builders, Inc.
Western Pipe and Steel Company
Pelton Water Wheel Co.
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Public Works Administration
Goodfellow Brothers
Donaldson, Francis
Slocum, Manley Harvey
Lynch Brothers
Rumsey and Company
Walter, R F
Savage, John L
Mead, Elwood
American Bridge Co.
Newport News Shipping and Drydock Co.
David H. Ryan
Henny, D C
Federal Power Commission
Columbia Basin Commission
J. S. Ross
Funk, C B
Western Construction Company
J. H. Pomeroy and Company
Telford, Robert L
Foster, James
Woodard, Silas H
Myer, H Leslie
Atkinson, George
Walter, Raymond F
Woodward Governor Company
I. T. E. Circuit Breaker Company
Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Otis Elevator Company
General Electric Company
Morrison-Knudsen Company
Peter Kiewit Sons' Company
Consolidated Western Steel Corporation
George V. Nolte Company
Hazen F. Willett
Fairbanks-Morse and Company
Marine and Industrial Supply
Scott Buttner Corporation
Nydquist and Holm Aktiebolag (NOHAB)
Bonneville Power Administration
North Electric Company
National Electric Coil Company
Epoxylite Corporation
Marcel Breuer and Associates
Smith, Hamilton P
Hayes, Thomas
Weidlinger, Paul
Brooks, Kenneth
Vinnell-Dravo-Lockheed-Mannix (VDLM)
Bingham-Willamette Company
Canadian General Electric Company, Ltd.
Christianson, Justine , transmitter
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Regional Office , sponsor
Roise, Charlene , project manager
Gales, Elizabeth , researcher
Petersen, Penny , researcher
Fraser, Clayton B , photographer
Hubber, Ann , historian
Lowe, Jet , photographer - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
- Medium:
Photo(s): 70
Data Page(s): 355
Photo Caption Page(s): 7 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HAER WASH,13-GRACO,1A-
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- The Columbia Basin Project is located in 5 counties: Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, and Stevens
- Significance: At the time of construction, Grand Coulee Dam was the most massive structure ever built: construction-plant innovations realized during removal of an unprecedented volume of overburden and placement of an unprecedented volume of concrete established the dam "among the construction classics" and redefined the engineering and construction community's understanding of what was possible, within a given time frame and a given budget. Construction of the largest thing on earth allowed employment of over 70,000 men and created a stream of manufacture goods, dollars, and jobs that reached 45 states. This immediate employment places Grand Coulee with the major public-works projects of the depression era, representative of a significant new public/private social and economic contract. The unprecedented volume of water stored behind Grand Coulee Dam allows irrigation and cultivation of over half-a-million acres of land, a substantial impact on the economic and social history of the region. By March, 1944, this water volume, run through generators of unprecedented size, established a world's record for electrical production by a single plant in a month's time with a gross output of more than 621,000 kilowatt hours; this output powered Pacific Northwest aluminum plants and other World War II industries.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N390
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1269
- Survey number: HAER WA-139-A
- Building/structure dates: 1933-1942 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1967-1974 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1942-1947 Subsequent Work
- Subjects:
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 47.957153, -118.97431
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HAER WASH,13-GRACO,1A-
- Medium:
Photo(s): 70
Data Page(s): 355
Photo Caption Page(s): 7
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Data Page(s): 355
Photo Caption Page(s): 7
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