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Grant Elementary School, Staff of 1977-1978

Picture of the Grant Elementary School staff of 1977-1978. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the students…

Grant Elementary School, Staff of 1976-1977

Picture of the Grant Elementary School staff of 1977-1978. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the students…

Grant Elementary School, 6th grade class of 1981-1982

Picture of the 1981-1982 6th grade class of Grant Elementary School. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the…

Grant Elementary School, 6th grade class of 1979-1980

Picture of the 1979-1980 6th grade class of Grant Elementary School. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the…

Grant Elementary School, 6th grade class of 1979-1980

Picture of the 1979-19780 6th grade class of Grant Elementary School. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the…

Grant Elementary school, 6th grade class of 1977-1978

Picture of the 1977-1978 6th grade class of Grant Elementary School. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the…

Grant Elementary School, 5th or 6th grade class of 1980-1981

Picture of the 1980-1981 5th or 6th grade class of Grant Elementary School. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed…

Grant Elementary school, 5th or 6th grade class of 1976-1977

Picture of the 1976-1977 5th or 6th grade class of Grant Elementary School. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed…

Grant Elementary school, 5th grade class of 1978-1979

Picture of the 1978-1979 5th grade class of Grant Elementary School. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the…

Grant County Courthouse, Ephrata, Wash.

Grant County Courthouse, Ephrata, Wash.

Granite Block, Riverside Avenue, Spokane, Washington

Granite Block, Riverside Avenue, Spokane, Washington

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.050

One map of the Columbia Basin Project.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.047

The Rising Structure. West bank portion of the Grand Coulee Dam.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.046

Below river. Drillers safe from surging waters behind a protecting cofferdam.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.045

Excavation below river level. Excavation activities in unwater riverbed section. March 1937.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.044

No description -- construction equipment

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.043

Birdseye view looking south.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.042

"The Grand Coulee Dam, Power Plant and Pumping Plant"

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.041

Typical powerhouse section - Grand Coulee Dam & Typical Spillway Section - Grand Coulee Dam.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.040

The Bucket. Downstream face of spillway with powerhouse foundation beyond.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.039

Cold Concrete. Nearly 2,000,000 cubic yards of it in west end of dam with Columbia diverted through low section.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.038

Columbia River Diverted. Two cross-river cofferdams divert stream through low sections in west portion of dam while east portion is unwatered for preparation of foundation.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.037

Source of supply for the eleven million yards of sand and gravel required for the Grand Coulee Dam.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.036

Gravel Pit. Deposit from which concrete aggregates are excavated by electric shovels and belt conveyors at a rate of 2500 tons per hour.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.035

Deepest foundation depression. Ice dam restraining the muck from flowing into pit.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.034

"Ice Dam" - Muck flowing into deep depression in bedrock, stopped by artificially frozen arch dam.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.033

Facilities for visitors. Some 200,000 visitors in 1936 inspected a model of the dam and from sheltered seats close to the work on each side of the river viewed the construction work and had it explained over a public address system.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.032

Cooling pipe. Water will be circulated through 2000 miles of it embedded in the dam to cool and shrink the concrete and thus facilitate grouting of construction joints.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.031

A "House of Magic" - One of two concrete mixing plants, capacity 8,000 cubic yards per day each.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.030

The checkerboard. The pouring of concrete into interlocking blocks permits grouting of contraction joints to form monolithic mass.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.029

West End Grand Coulee Dam - Concrete placing trestles and cranes.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.028

Upstream Face Grand Coulee Dam. 1,550,000 cubic yards of concrete in place.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.027

Jackhammer Men - with hard hats and safety belts they trim steep abutment slopes.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.026

Night at Grand Coulee.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.025

A five-yard shovel loading a twenty-yard "Buggy."

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.024

Bedrock behind west cofferdam.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.023

Concrete placing - Dumping a four-yard concrete bucket.

GrandCouleeDam. NWC019.022

Concrete in dam. June, 1936. One millionth yard placed August 14, 1936.