Coulee Dam, Washington, 1935 – Historic Photograph Print
(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.)
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This rare historic image captures Coulee Dam, Washington, 1935 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Coulee Dam, Wash.
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Coulee Dam, Washington, 1935
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Coulee Dam, Washington, in 1935 sat at the edge of the Columbia River's Grand Coulee, where the federal government was building one of the largest concrete structures in the country. Work began in 1933 under the Bureau of Reclamation, with money from the New Deal's public works programs, at a time when unemployment was severe across the Pacific Northwest. The construction camp and the newly planned town below the gorge housed a growing workforce of laborers, engineers, and their families, many of whom had come from drought-stricken farms and depressed mill towns. Local people in Spokane and the surrounding Inland Empire followed the project closely, since the dam promised cheap hydroelectric power and irrigation for dry land to the north. The dam would not be finished until the early 1940s, so in 1935 the site still looked like a raw excavation of rock and scaffolding.
| Created / published | 1935 |
|---|---|
| Creator | charles a. libby & son (spokane, wash.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Washington |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,567 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Coulee Dam, Wash. |
| Reference | WA 1935a Coulee Dam |
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