Coulee Dam, Washington, 1935 – Historic Photo Reproduction
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A window into the past: Coulee Dam, Washington, 1935, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Coulee Dam, Washington, 1935
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In 1935, Coulee Dam was a rough construction town on the Columbia River in north-central Washington, where the government was starting to block a river gorge that had been carved by floodwaters thousands of years earlier. Geologists had long recognized that the Grand Coulee was an ancient river channel, now dry and walled by basalt cliffs, and that knowledge shaped how engineers and residents thought about the project. The surrounding sagebrush country was lightly settled, so the arrival of surveyors, drillers, and haulers changed daily life in small farming communities nearby. People in the region tended to speak of the coming dam as a way to reclaim a land that had once been watered by the river itself.
| Created / published | 1935 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Washington |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 945 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | WA 1935b Coulee Dam |
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