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  • Columbia Basin Project History; Text of Volume IV (1936)
  • 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. 4 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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  • Westmix Concrete Equipment
  • Concrete; Dam construction; Dams; Construction; Excavation; Power plants
  • Photograph of sand processing equipment used in concrete production for the Grand Coulee Dam and the surrounding facilities.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Lubricating Guide Bearings
  • Pumping stations--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • The guide bearings on the 150,000 horsepower Newport News turbines are lubricated with oil circulated by lower-pressure pumps driven by alternating current motors. Each turbine is provided with a standby pump, which is driven by direct current from...
  • 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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  • Chinook Salmon
  • Fisheries; Fish hatcheries--Washington (State)--Leavenworth
  • A big Chinook salmon prior to artificial spawning.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Stretching Bolts of the Scrollcase
  • Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Bolts & nuts
  • Bolts holding the sections of a scroll case together are actually stretched so as to make them exert a greater force than that of the water, which tends to separate them. The increased in length, determined by micrometer, is a measure of the force...
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Pumping Plant Discharge Tunnel 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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