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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1937-05-16.


    • How the Grand Coulee dam looks today
      Blasting in the wake of jackhammer drilling
      Completed foundation section of the river barrier
      Rocks are trucked away from their age-old home
      Blocks of concrete and steel rising to form a 150-mile...

    • 1937

    • How the Grand Coulee dam looks today
      Blasting in the wake of jackhammer drilling. - Left--Several times daily dynamite is set off in holes drilled into the former river bed. This blast scene is in area B.
      Completed foundation section of the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1937-05-16.
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Strikes and riots. 1936-08-07


    • Martial law declared in Clearwater county - pickets and strike breakers clash- attack with chains which leads to gunplay

    • 1936

    • Martial law declared in Clearwater county - pickets and strike breakers clash- attack with chains which leads to gunplay - Martial law has been declared in the strike-torn logging areas of Clearwater county, following a mixup in which several men...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Strikes and riots. 1936-08-07
    • State history. Native Americans. Photographs. 1936-11-06


    • Young Indians don finery which dates far back in history

    • 1936

    • Young Indians don finery which dates far back in history. - Fine feathers made fine birds when the three Indian boys shown here donned a lot of borrowed finery to dress up for their parts in the recent De Smet Indian fair. The young fellow at the...
    • State history. Native Americans. Photographs. 1936-11-06
    • State history. Native Americans. Schools. 1920-08-23


    • Indian school plans ready

    • 1920

    • Indian school plans ready. - Will start construction of first building at once. - Plans for construction of the Indian mission school at White Swan, which is sponsored by the Christian church, have been completed. Lin Bissell, drawing plans for the...
    • State history. Native Americans. Schools. 1920-08-23
    • State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1936-06-30. p. 1.


    • The empire builder's empire

    • 1936

    • The empire builder's empire / by C. H. Heffelfinger Patkanim and the Puget Sound settlers. - The 1850's--ten years of unrest, trouble and warfare. Ten years in which every white home was the possible scene of a repetition of the Whitman Massacre....
    • State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1936-06-30. p. 1.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1937-04-05


    • New cells which will throttle leak beneath Coulee cofferdam

    • 1937

    • New cells which will throttle leak beneath Coulee cofferdam - Five of the six steel cells which will form a second line of defense around the leak in the downstream cofferdam at the Grand Coulee dam are seen in the center and left foreground of...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1937-04-05
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Statistics. 1935-12-19


    • The Grand Coulee dam

    • 1935

    • The Grand Coulee dam / by Virginia Smithwick
      King Pharaoh would gave with a mixture of awe and envy if the could see the gigantic Coulee Dam, now under construction. They pyramids he built during a period of 40 years, are the for the first time...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Statistics. 1935-12-19
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-22


    • Bonneville--past history and future at damsite.

    • 1936

    • Bonneville--past history and future at damsite. - Top--Looking downstream at the south unit of the main spillway dam as it appears today under the water which covered it last Saturday. Below--This view shows the next step in removal of the old...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-22
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-05-22


    • Bonneville--Past history and future at damsite.

    • 1936

    • Bonneville--Past history and future at damsite. - Top--Looking downstream at the south unit of the main spillway dam as it appears today under the water which covered it last Saturday. Below--This view shows the next step in removal of the old...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-05-22
    • State history. Columbia Basin. Legislation. 1928-05-11


    • "Adopts" is barb in basin bill

    • 1928

    • "Adopts" is barb in basin bill. - Phipps offers amendment dropping word that commits U. S. to measure. - Debate, but no action. - Norris joins Coloradoan in effort to withhold approval pending more information. - The Columbia basin bill was...
    • State history. Columbia Basin. Legislation. 1928-05-11
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1936-08-26


    • A problem with salmon in the Columbia river.

    • 1936

    • A problem with salmon in the Columbia river. - The spillway of the Bonneville dam, Oregon, which is now two-thirds finished, through which the current rushes so violently that the Columbia River Salmon Fishermen's Protective Association has...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Fish. 1936-08-26
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1935-09-01


    • Monster machines convey, crush, wash and grade sand and gravel

    • 1935

    • Monster machines convey, crush, wash and grade sand and gravel. - These two pictures show the plant which automatically will convert material taken from the hills above the Columbia into a scientifically measured aggregate for making the concrete...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1935-09-01
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1935-09-26


    • Sift dirt giant conveyor at damsite

    • 1935

    • Sift dirt giant conveyor at damsite. - Feeding the giant belt conveyor at the Grand Coulee dam site. Trucks and dump wagons dump the overburden on a grid which prevents large rocks from getting on the belts. Underneath the grid is a steel hopper...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1935-09-26
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1937-05-16. p. 8.


    • Diversion channel through which man has the west's greatest river to flow

    • 1937

    • Diversion channel through which man has the west's greatest river to flow. - Bent from its course by a coffer dam, the Columbia is seen pouring through a man-made channel (area C in the picture at the top of the page) while work progress in the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1937-05-16. p. 8.
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1937-07-13


    • The start of a world record concrete pouring enterprise

    • 1937

    • The start of a world record concrete pouring enterprise. - The real beginning of a world's record concrete pouring job is represented in this picture, the connecting Monday of the two ends of the high trestle at Coulee dam from which the concrete...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1937-07-13

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