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  • Penstock Liner Installation
  • Water tunnels--Grand Coulee Dam
  • Workers seen here are lowering the timber form for pouring penstock concrete into position at the penstock inlet.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Diversion Channels
  • Conveying systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Diversion weirs; Diversion weirs; Civil engineering; Concrete
  • Diversion Channels of completed Grand Coulee Dam foundation on the west bank of the Columbia River.
  • 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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  • Penstock Liner
  • Penstocks--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Equipment & personnel transportation; Spillways--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • An 18-foot diameter penstock liner, and load of reinforcement steel approaches the right power house by road along the river. A barge will carry one truck and the loaded trailer across the intervening water of the right tailrace. The rear truck...
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Cement Mixing Plant
  • Concrete; Conveying systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • Shown her is a bottom up view of the Westmix facility with particular attention paid to the placing trestle on the right hand side. This placing trestle had rails that would deliver the four yard concrete buckets to the Wiley Cranes stationed on...
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Scroll Case Erection
  • Water tunnels--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Bolts & nuts
  • Erection of the scroll case of Shasta turbine L-8. This view shows men using sledge and flatter to lay up a butt strap, after heating.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • W.P.A. Camp Gifford
  • Laborers
  • W.P.A Camp Gifford on the shores of the Columbia 84 1/2 miles above the dam.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • L-3 Generator-voltage Bus Structure
  • Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Hydroelectric power
  • The installation of the L-3 generator-voltage bus structure was completed by private contractor I.T.E. Circuit Breaker Company.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection

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