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| Title | Open spillway at the Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia River Basin, Washington, 1942 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1942 |
| Caption | Grand Coulee is the largest dam in the Columbia River Basin, about 90 miles northwest of Spokane. Construction began in 1933 and was completed in 1941. A hydroelectric dam with four power plants and an average annual energy output of about 2, 300 megawatts, Grand Coulee produces enough power to continuously supply the needs of two cities the size of Seattle. Its reservior is known as Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake. |
| Notes | Written on sleeve: GRAND COULEE DAM, Opening of falls
Caption information source: http://www.nwcouncil.org/history/grandcouleehistory.asp
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): June 2, 1942. |
| Subjects | Dams--Washington (State)--Grant County; Columbia River; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.); Spillways--Washington (State) |
| Places | Columbia River Watershed
United States--Washington(State))--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam |
| Image Number | 1986.5.3867.1 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film positive as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4. |
