Construction History Photo Gallery

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  • Preparing bed with mules for laying ties for the railroad spur from Coulee City to Grand Coulee Dam
  • Contractors catwalk being built so workers could cross the Columbia River
  • East side aggregate Conveyor
  • Governor Clarence C. Martin placing official first concrete pour at Grand Coulee Dam
  • Governor Clarence C. Martin vibrating first official concrete pour at Grand Coulee Dam
  • East side cofferdam on left with diversion channel center and Grand Coulee Dam foundation taking shape center.
  • East mix plant in foreground and overall view of Grand Coulee Dam project.
  • Cantilever crane on low crane trestle for placing concrete in foundation forms at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • West side high and low crane trestles with cantilever cranes at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Cross river spoils conveyor going to Rattlesnake Canyon center with west mix plant behind. Low Wakefield cofferdam on eastside in foreground at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Setting a 3 1/2 foot ton steam hammer for driving piles in cofferdam connecting section
  • Close-up of connections on arch area. One point being driven by barge.
  • West side mix plant and high and low crane trestles at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • The completed frozen arch at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Looking north east over west side high and low crane trestles, note the cantilever cranes, at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • East mix plant with high and low crane trestles on either side at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Drilling blasting holes in rock face for Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Drilling blasting holes in rock face for Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Pouring concrete at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Looking east from Fiddle Creek area at Grand Coulee Dam at the close of M.W.A.K. contract.
  • East side view of Grand Coulee Dam.
  • The high crane trestle at elevation 1180 at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • 9 of the 12 discharge tunnels for the pumping plant seen here on the west side of Grand Coulee Dam.
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  • The high crane trestle at elevation 1180 at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • High trestle crain work at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • The first 18 foot diameter penstock liner sections at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • The Green Hut restaurant in the foreground was built by C.D. Newland on leased land here at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Camp Ferry on the Columbia River which housed WPA workers while cleaning area for Lake Roosevelt behind Grand Coulee Dam.
  • View of the Grand Coulee Dam taken from the north cliffs below the dam.
  • East side powerhouse work at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Assembling the structural steel spider of a Shasta generator at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • The east side powerhouse at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • View of the Grand Coulee Dam from the west side cliffs.
  • These 193 lb. bolts and nuts couple the two shafts together on a main unit at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Installing transmission lines from the west powerhouse to the 230 KV switchyard at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Pumping plant construction at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • The Bureau steam locomotive at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Interior of the west powerhouse at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Interior of the west powerhouse at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Caison graving dock where caison will set. Caison will be used for spillway bucket repair at Grand Coulee Dam
  • Placing re-inforcing steel prior to pouring the concrete at the caison drydock at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • This needle valve being lowered into base of R-8 in the east powerhouse of Grand Coulee Dam.
  • 84 inch needle valves are being installed in the east powerhouse at Grand Coulee Dam between the penstocks and draft tubes for water diversion
  • Westinghouse work crew, original units at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Frank A. Banks, Supervising Engineer at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • William M. Clapp, attorney from Ephrata, Washington, was instrumental in securing legislation for the Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Gale Mathews. Abstract and Title Co. was instrumental in securing legislation for the Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Rufus Woods, publisher for the Wenatchee World newspaper was instrumental in securing legislation for the Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Mason City (Coulee Dam) in foreground with Engineers Town across river and Grand Coulee top center.
  • Excavation for the feeder canal at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Excavating river bottom prior to setting up caison for spillway bucket repairs at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • This waterwheel made by Newport news Shipbuilding and Drydock co. of Newport, Virginia just arriving at Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Scrollcase ready for concrete in L-9 turbine pit at the west powerhouse of Grand Coulee Dam.
  • L-8 stator on way to permanent position in west powerhouse of Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Looking west over Grand Coulee Dam.
  • Water from Lake Roosevelt behind Grand Coulee Dam dumping into Banks Lake equilizing reservoir from feeder canal.
  • 50 maidens from 50 U.S. states at feeder canal ceremony at Grand Coulee Dam. Arizona only brought 1/2 gallon of water. Said California took the other half.

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