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  • Columbia Basin Project History; Text of Volume X (1942)
  • 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 ten of the Columbia Basin History Project for the Grand Coulee Dam
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Hydrostatic Penstock Test Tank
  • Water tunnels--Grand Coulee Dam
  • The water tank devised by Western Pipe and Steel Co. for making hydrostatic tests of penstock sections. The workmen are preparing a penstock section for the hydrostatic test.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • East Bank Construction Trestles
  • Trestles; Construction
  • Workers erecting the steel frame of the construction trestle.
  • 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 Molds
  • Civil engineering; Concrete; Construction employees
  • Twenty-four foot forms and steel reinforcement for the eighteen-foot cylinder steel penstocks in the left side powerhouse. Notice the dam slowly approaching the level of the lower placing trestle.
  • 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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  • Kettle Falls
  • Boats--Reservoirs--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Reservoirs--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • Site of Kettle Falls on the Columbia River, with the Columbia River reservoir water surface at elevation 1239 feet. Note boat towing log boom whose destination is a sawmill near the old town of Peach.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection

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