Completed Grand Coulee Dam
Title
Completed Grand Coulee Dam
Title Caption
A dam across the Columbia River at Grand Coulee appears to have been first advocated by a Coulee City , Wn . newspaper in 1892 , but the idea did not gain popular support until this proposal was published in the Wenatchee World on July 18 , 1918 . Here now raised the greatest structure of masonry ever erected by man ; 4173 feet in length , 500 feet thick at the base , and towering 550 feet above lowest bedrock . Rising to elevation 1311.08 , and overshadowed only by Boulder (726.4 ft.) and Shasta (602 ft.) Dams , it raises the water surface some 355 feet above the old river level , creating a beautiful falls of dazzling white , 1,650 feet long and twice the height of Niagara . In its great mass rests almost as much concrete as in the combined volumes of the next four of the world's largest concrete dams , (Shasta , Boulder , Friant , and Marshall Ford) : It being twice that of Shasta , and three times that of Boulder alone , or equaling the combined volumes of 20 of the largest concrete dams in the United States , excluding Boulder . Not only is Grand Coulee Dam the largest man-made structure in the world , but it is the greatest of all dams in economic value , for it will create employment opportunities and better living conditions for hundreds of thousands of people throughout the nation .
Description
Finished Grand Coulee Dam generating electricity and sending the waters of the Columbia over the spillway .
Notes
Part of Western Waters Digital Library : http://westernwaters.org/; Photographer Unknown
Author
Koester , Clifford R .
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash." Spillways--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Coulee Dam (Wash."[town]
TGM Subject
Hydroelectric power Spillways--Washington--Grand Coulee Dam
Type
Photograph
Geographic Area
United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Identifier
709b1v3p330.jpg
Publisher
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/masc.htm
Source
A History of the Columbia Basin Project (Vol. 3 , Page 330)-Cage 709 : Clifford R. Koester Papers , 1927-1972 : http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg709.htm
Reproduction
To order a reproduction please see: http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/ , or contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
Rights
For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
Digital 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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