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Camp Kettle, largest of the six camps for quartering workers on the clearing project, ca. 1940
Camp Kettle, largest of the six camps for quartering workers on the clearing project, ca. 1940
TitleCamp Kettle, largest of the six camps for quartering workers on the clearing project, ca. 1940
PhotographerUnknown
Dateca. 1940
NotesLabel on image: COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN CLEARING PROJECT: Camp Kettle, near Kettle Falls, where 525 of the 2, 200 WPA workers on the Coulee reservoir clearing project are now quartered. It is the largest of six camps housing the crews operating on the upper Columbia and tributaries including the Spokane River. When the project is completed next summer, the camp must be removed as the rising lake will entirely cover this region. US WPA 487

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Subjects (LCTGM)Construction camps--Washington (State)
Subjects (LCSH)Camp Kettle (Wash.)
Geographic SubjectsUnited States--Washington (State)--Camp Kettle
Digital CollectionGrand Coulee Dam Collection
Order NumberDAM029
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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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