Grand Coulee dam construction – Antique Wall Art
![Grand Coulee dam construction, [between 1936 and 1946] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/02/023cafd20197-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Grand Coulee dam construction in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Grand Coulee dam construction
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The Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in central Washington is the subject here, a structure that rose during the Great Depression and was built to hold back the river and generate hydroelectric power. Construction began in 1933 under the federal Bureau of Reclamation, and the dam was largely complete by the mid-1940s, when its generators began supplying electricity to the Pacific Northwest and helped power wartime industry. The record for this print is undated beyond a range of roughly a decade, and its caption card is old and unverified, so the exact moment it was taken is uncertain. Still, it captures one of the largest concrete undertakings of its era.
| Created / published | [between 1936 and 1946] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Construction; Electricity; Dams; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,237 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141808 |
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