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GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.008
East end, Grand Coulee Dam - Concrete placing trestles and bedrock foundation blocks - January, 1937.
GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.001
One photo album illustrating the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam from 1933 to 1937. It includes photographs of the site before construction, the Columbia River diversion, blasting, "jackhammer men," driving steel piling, and general construction…
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#23)
"Looking down stream to power house and high railroad bridge."
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#05)
"Cabinet Gorge Dam, constructed on a spectacular canyon on the Clark Fork River in Idaho, is the second largest of WWP's nine hydro electric facilities. Working 24 hours a day, workers drove the two 1,000-foot diversion tunnels and erected the coffer…
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#04)
"WWP's Long Lake Dam is still an impressive structure more than 75 years after its construction. The project which would have spillways 170 feet high- the highest in the world at the time- and the largest turbines then in opperation, was a mammoth…
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#02)
"WWP's Monroe Street hydroelectric plant under construction in 1889. This facility, which has served five generations of Inland Northwest customers, is currently being upgraded- a renovation that includes replacement of the five old turbine-…
Spokane Valley -- Agriculture (#01)
"Irrigation flume and crops alongside in upper section of valley."
Northwest -- Rivers -- Similkameen (#05)
"Similkameen River gorge. P.M.D. Dam (abandoned) 4 miles from Oroville; view S.W." Enloe Dam
Northwest -- Dams -- Long Lake (#04)
"Long Lake power station, Spokane river, the W.W.P. Company 94,00 hp."
Northwest -- Dams -- Grand Coulee (#18)
"River Diversion" "Donated by William P. Gale who worked on the dam."
Northwest -- Dams -- Grand Coulee (#12)
"Beginning of Coulee Dam" "Donated by William P. Gale, Spokane, who worked on the dam."
