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| Title | Last tree in the Camp Gifford area, 1941. |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1941 |
| Notes | Caption included with image; Last tree felled in Camp Gifford clearing area by WPA crews. Standing beside the tree which was felled along the old river highway on a flat midway between the towns of Rice and Daisy are, from left to right: H.M. Sheerer of the Bureau of Reclamation, W.L. Radke, General Superintendent of the Columbia River Reservoir Clearing project, Lou Wagner, assistant Superintendent of Camp Gifford and Austin Welch, Superintendent of Camp Gifford. Camp Gifford has been dismantled. Water is slowly coming up and covering the site. Some 52, 000 acres will have been cleared in the Grand Coulee reservoir area when the work is completed sometime during the middle of July of this year.
Caption on verso: US WPA 662
[Grand Coulee Dam 86] |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Clearing of land--Washington (State)
Pine--Washington (State)
Axes
Saws
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Sheerer, H.M.
Radke, W.L.
Wagner, Lou
Welch, Austin
United States. Works Projects Administration--Employees
Logging--Equipment and supplies
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| Geographic Subjects | United States--Washington (State) |
| Digital Collection | Grand Coulee Dam Collection
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| Order Number | DAM087 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Grand Coulee Dam Photograph Collection. PH Coll 478
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | silver gelatin, b&w |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned 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. |
