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Bird's-eye view of Newhalem construction camp, July 17, 1921
Title
Bird's-eye
view
of
Newhalem
construction
camp
,
July
17
,
1921
Photographer
Unknown
Date
1921
Notes
Photographs
of the
Skagit
River
Hydroelectric
Project
constructed
between
1918-1961.
The
Gorge
Dam
and
Powerhouse
were
built
by
Seattle
City
Light
and
completed
in
September
of
1924.
The
Gorge
Dam
construction
camp
at the
mouth
of
Newhalem
Creek
grew
to a
town
of
1
,
000
residents
with a
school
and a
church
, but
it
did
not have a
name.
When
the
city
council
visited
the
settlement
in the
summer
of
1921
,
some
college
students
employed
on the
project
greeted
them with a
wood
plank
inscribed
,
"Welcome
to
Newhalem."
The
name
stuck.
Caption
on
image:
5156.
7-17-21
Caption
below
image:
Newhalem
Camp
-
Skagit
River
PH
Coll
45.1-41
Location Depicted
United
States--Washington
(State)--Newhalem
Subjects (LCTGM)
Work
camps--Washington
(State)--Newhalem;
Mountains--Washington
(State)
Subjects (LCSH)
Newhalem
(Wash.)
Digital Collection
Seattle Power and Water Supply Collection
Order Number
WWDL0349
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Repository
University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
Repository Collection
Seattle City Light Albums. PH Coll 45
Object Type
Photograph
Physical Description
silver gelatin, b&w
Digital Reproduction Information
Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 150 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2005
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