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Burning a house near Camp Lincoln, ca. 1941.
Burning a house near Camp Lincoln, ca. 1941.
TitleBurning a house near Camp Lincoln, ca. 1941.
PhotographerUnknown
Dateca. 1941
NotesCaption included with image: One of the first of early settler's houses in the path of the WPA clearing project crew, near Camp Lincoln. All stumps, unsaleable trees and other combustible debres is (editor's correction: are) burned as the WPA crews move up the banks of the Columbia River above Grand Coulee dam, preparing the future lake bed of the 151 mile Coulee Dam Reservoir.

Caption on verso: Burning house near Lincoln US WPA 562

Newspaper caption included: SOON A MEMORY--One of the early settler's houses in the path of the clearing project is being burned to the ground as crews prepare the future lake bed of the 151-mile Coulee Dam Reservoir.

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Subjects (LCTGM)Clearing of land--Washington (State)--Camp Lincoln
Fires--Washington (State)
Smoke--Washington (State)
Subjects (LCSH)Camp Lincoln (Wash.)
Geographic SubjectsUnited States--Washington (State)--Camp Lincoln
Digital CollectionGrand Coulee Dam Collection
Order NumberDAM013
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Negative NumberUW12591
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
Repository CollectionGrand Coulee Dam Photograph Collection. PH Coll 478
Object TypePhotograph
Physical Descriptionsilver gelatin, b&w
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a photographic print at 100 dpi in JPEG format and resized to 768x512 ppi or scanned from original text at 400 dpi in JPEG format and resized to 600 ppi horizontal. Saved at compression rate 3. 2000.
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