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Title	Columbia River Dam - Grand Coulee generating, pumping & switch stations preliminary estimate drawing (1924)
Creator	Dept. of the Interior. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Columbia Basin Project
Date.Original	1924
Publisher	Denver : Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
Description	1 map : 26 x 43 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 400 ft. Inset: Section thru dam This is a very preliminary design map showing how a dam could be placed at Grand Coulee. Initial excavation for a dam there didn't begin until 1933, by which point several designs had been (and still would be even after digging had started) considered.
Subject	Irrigation--Washington (State)--Columbia River Valley--Maps; Columbia Basin Project (U.S.); Grand Coulee Dam--Plans
Type	Image
Genre	Maps
Location Depicted	United States--Washington (State)--Grant county--Grand Coulee
Rights Notes	No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was created by the United States government.
Identifier	wsu507; cg222b5-3
Holding Institution	Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
Digitization	Original maps were scanned in color at 600 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.5 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries.
Format	image/jpg2000
Contributors	Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Language	English
Source	Is found in Cage 222, Osmar Waller Papers https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg222.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc

Columbia River Dam - Grand Coulee generating, pumping & switch stations preliminary estimate drawing (1924)

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