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Call Number	CHS.X5719
Title	W.P.C.D. powder house loading primers
Creator(s)	Zellers, Bob.
Summary	A worker prepares an explosive charge in the powder house near the West Portal of the Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Continental Divide Tunnel) of the Colorado Big Thompson project in Grand County Colorado. The man wears work overalls and a cap. He places a blasting cap and fuse into a prepared tube of explosives. Boxes of blasting powder and blasting caps are stacked in the room.
Date	[1946 July?]
Notes	Accession number: 88.442.159; History Colorado.; Number inked on negative: "3441."; Title penciled on envelope.; R7200057198
Physical Description	1 negative : nitrate ; 10 x 13 cm. (5 x 7 in.)
Is Part Of	History Colorado, Zellers collection
Subject	Colorado-Big Thompson Project (U.S.)--People--1930-1950.; Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Grand County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Explosives--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.; Interiors--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.
Rights	Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact History Colorado: http://www.historycolorado.org/researchers/reproduction-commercial-use-fees
Reproduction Available for Purchase	Yes
Type of Material	nitrate negatives.; Imaged.; Image
Format-Medium	Photograph
Identifier	88.442.159
Filename	20005719.TIF
CONTENTdm number	12050