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  • "Synchronized" Trucks Transporting Steel Girders
  • Girders; Trucks--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • "Synchronized" trucks handling a long, heavy section of steel roof girder, transporting it to the east powerhouse.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Aggregate Plant
  • Excavation; Conveying systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • Image of the entire aggregate complex at Brett Gravel Pit.
  • 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 entire gravel and material processing operation in practice.
  • 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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  • Aggregate Processing at Brett Gravel Pit
  • Conveying systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Excavation; Brett Gravel Pit
  • Seen around the swinging "pendulum" boom conveyor are the mismatched boulders that could not be used in the aggregate processing plant and were thus sorted from soil piles.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Aggregate Processing at Brett Gravel Pit
  • Concrete; Conveying systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Excavation; Brett Gravel Pit
  • Sorting process in action, image shows large rocks being separated from the smaller ones as they are loaded onto the conveyor.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Aggregate Stock Piles
  • Concrete; Conveying systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Excavation; Brett Gravel Pit
  • Shown here is the finished products coming from the Aggregate processing facility. These stock piles served as the raw material for the mass amounts of concrete required for the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Aggregate Stock Piles
  • Concrete; Conveying systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Excavation; Brett Gravel Pit
  • Picture of raw stock pile at Brett Pit with Grand Coulee in the background.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Aggregate Stock Piles
  • Concrete; Conveying systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Excavation; Brett Gravel Pit
  • Conveyors transported materials from the screening and washing plant to stock piles for construction activities.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Aggregate Stock Piles
  • Conveying systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Excavation; Brett Gravel Pit
  • Shown here are the giant piles of raw materials, sorted and categorized, that would make up the materials used to produce the Grand Coulee Dam. Notice the extent of the excavation from Brett Gravel Pit.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Aircraft Lands on Grand Coulee Dam Reservoir
  • Spillways--Washington--Grand Coulee Dam; Reservoirs--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Transport planes--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • The first aircraft to land on the storage reservoir above the Grand Coulee Dam. The plane, a Fairchild C-24, was piloted by Mr. Alfred Wolf, with Mrs. Wolf as passenger, and was being flown from factory to a customer.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • All Three Generators in Place in West Powerhouse
  • Hydroelectric generators; Power plants--dams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • Generators L-3 and L-2 in operation in the west powerhouse, and L-1 nearly ready for service.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • American Flag
  • Power plants--dams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Flags--United States
  • A 20x38 American Flag was hung against the east wall of the west powerhouse to inspire workmen to maximum efficiency.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Arrival of Transformer
  • Dams; Trestles; Dump trucks--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Electrical apparatus
  • Private contractor the General Electric Company furnished transformers under the specifications order number 896. This photograph shows the first of many transformers being delivered to the Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Assembly of Steel Spider
  • Hydroelectric generators; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Hoisting machinery
  • Assembling the structural steel spider of a Shasta generator.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Attaching Rotor
  • Hydroelectric generators; Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • Attaching pole pieces and field coils to the rim of a Shasta generator rotor.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Balanced Needle Valve
  • Employees--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Painting--Washington (State)--Coulee Dam
  • This balanced needle valve controls the pressure under a drum gate and consequently the position of the gate, by controlling the rate of discharge of water from the chamber under the gate.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Barge Crane
  • Cranes; Reservoirs--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • Barge crane handling a temporary steel gate for an 8 1/2 foot outlet tube.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Batcher Control Room
  • Concrete; Conveying systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • This image shows the batcher control room that controlled the portions, mixing, and release of the four-yard loads of concrete at the Eastmix mixing facility.
  • Frank A. Banks Collection
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  • Batcher Control Room
  • Concrete; Conveying systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
  • This image shows the batcher control room that controlled the portions, mixing, and release of the four-yard loads of concrete at the Eastmix mixing facility. Specifically this image shows the scales that measured out the individual loads of...
  • Frank A. Banks Collection

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