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  • Columbia Basin Project History; Text of Volume III (1935)
  • Dam construction; Dams; Power plants; Reservoirs; Spillways; Hydroelectric power; Housing; Construction; Plans; Government officials; Excavation; Surveying; Irrigation; Rivers; Pedestrian bridges; Sewerage; Hydraulic facilities; Civil service
  • Entire text portion of Columbia Basin History Project, vol. III documenting the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Columbia Basin Project History; Text of Volume V (1937)
  • Dam construction; Dams; Power plants; Reservoirs; Spillways; Hydroelectric power; Housing; Construction; Plans; Government officials; Excavation; Surveying; Irrigation; Rivers; Pedestrian bridges; Sewerage; Hydraulic facilities; Civil service
  • Entire text portion of Columbia Basin History Project, vol. V documenting the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Grout Tank and Pump
  • Concrete
  • This tank and pump is atypical of those used to transport grout to the pumps for grouting the crevices and cracks found in the bedrock of the Grand Coulee Dam construction site. Workers applied pressures from 200 to 400 pounds per square inch to...
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Workmen Tighten Nuts
  • Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Electrical apparatus; Hydroelectric generators
  • Workmen tightening nuts on the thrust bearing runner of unit L-1. An insulator bushing of a General Electric 36,000-kv.-a. transformer at the left.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Columbia Basin Project History; Text of Volume VII (1939)
  • Dam construction; Dams; Power plants; Reservoirs; Spillways; Hydroelectric power; Housing; Construction; Plans; Government officials; Excavation; Surveying; Irrigation; Rivers; Pedestrian bridges; Sewerage; Hydraulic facilities; Civil service
  • Entire text portion of Columbia Basin History Project, vol. VII documenting the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Generator L-1 Scroll Case
  • Hydroelectric generators; Power plants--dams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • Scroll case for main unit L-1, with erection completed and ready for water pressure test.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Pumping Plant Foundation Excavation
  • Excavation; Dam construction
  • Excavation continued into 1938 primarily in the upper areas of the Grand Coulee construction site that would support the upper portion of this monolithic structure and in supporting structures like the pumping plant that would eventually deliver...
  • Frank A. Banks Collection

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