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  • Columbia Basin Project History; Text of Volume VI (1938)
  • 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. 6 documenting the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Columbia Basin Project History; Text of Volume VIII (1940)
  • 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
  • Table of Contents and selected material from volume eight of the Columbia Basin History Project for the Grand Coulee Dam
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Diversion Channels
  • Dam construction
  • Columbia River flowing through diversion channels on the west bank, while construction progressed in the center and east bank behind the cofferdam.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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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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  • Trashrack Structures
  • Water tunnels--Grand Coulee Dam
  • Trashrack structures for protecting the intakes to the main unit penstocks. A steel rack or grill is being lowered into position
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Aggregate Processing at Brett Gravel Pit
  • Conveying systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Excavation; Brett Gravel Pit
  • Seen here is the sorting process meant to separate fine concrete materials from large boulders that the conveyor would then separate out as the shovel unloaded material onto the hopper.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Lowering the Bearing Bracket
  • Hydroelectric generators; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Hoisting machinery
  • Lowering the bearing bracket for the lower guide bearing of a Shasta unit.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Stator Assembly
  • Hydraulic facilities; Hydroelectric generators
  • Assembling the four sections of the stator of a 108,000 kv.-a. generator in the left powerhouse. Ladders and stairways are required to work on the world's largest hydro-electric generator. Experts from the Westinghouse factory are installing coils...
  • Frank A. Banks Collection

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