Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 7, Dres...
Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam Project represents one of the largest and most ambitious of such undertakings. With root in the Progressive Era, the project was adopted by New Deal propo... More
Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 7, Dres...
Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam Project represents one of the largest and most ambitious of such undertakings. With root in the Progressive Era, the project was adopted by New Deal propo... More
Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 7, Dres...
Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam Project represents one of the largest and most ambitious of such undertakings. With root in the Progressive Era, the project was adopted by New Deal propo... More
Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 7, Dres...
Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam Project represents one of the largest and most ambitious of such undertakings. With root in the Progressive Era, the project was adopted by New Deal propo... More
Grand Valley Diversion Dam, Half a mile north of intersection of I-70 ...
Significance: Constructed between 1913 and 1916, the dam is the key structure of the Bureau of Reclamation's Grand Valley Project, which provides water to 42,000 acres of semi-arid land. At the time of its comp... More
New Croton Dam & Reservoir, Croton River, Croton-on-Hudson, Westcheste...
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Coolidge Dam, Gila River, Peridot, Gila County, AZ - Bureau of Indian ...
Significance: Coolidge Dam remedied the water needs of the Pima and Maricopa Tribes on the Gila River Reservation, and also provided water for the neighboring Anglo community. Structurally, Coolidge Dam was th... More
Coolidge Dam, Gila River, Peridot, Gila County, AZ - Bureau of Indian ...
Significance: Coolidge Dam remedied the water needs of the Pima and Maricopa Tribes on the Gila River Reservation, and also provided water for the neighboring Anglo community. Structurally, Coolidge Dam was th... More
Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 5A, Win...
Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam Project represents one of the largest and most ambitious of such undertakings. With root in the Progressive Era, the project was adopted by New Deal propo... More
Prado Dam, Spillway, Santa Ana River near junction of State Highways 7...
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Prado Dam, Spillway, Santa Ana River near junction of State Highways 7...
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Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 5, Minn...
Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam Project represents one of the largest and most ambitious of such undertakings. With root in the Progressive Era, the project was adopted by New Deal propo... More
Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...
Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More
Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...
Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More
Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...
Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More
Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...
Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More
Illinois Waterway, Lockport Lock, Dam and Power House, 2502 Channel Dr...
Significance: The Lockport Lock, Dam and Power House Historic District is significant both for its role in navigation of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and the Illinois Waterway and for the vertical lift l... More
Bonneville Project, Bonneville Dam, Columbia River, Bonneville, Multno...
Survey number: HAER OR-11-F Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction
Bonneville Project, Bonneville Dam, Columbia River, Bonneville, Multno...
Survey number: HAER OR-11-F Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction
Mountain Dell Dam, Parley's Canyon, Northwest side of I-80, West of St...
Significance: Mountain Dell Dam is an early application of multiple-arch reinforced-concrete construction to dam engineering. The design developed by John S. Eastwood consisted of a series of arches set at an a... More
Elwha River Hydroelectric System, Glines Hydroelectric Dam & Plant, Po...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N466 Survey number: HAER WA-130-B
Elwha River Hydroelectric System, Glines Hydroelectric Dam & Plant, Po...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N466 Survey number: HAER WA-130-B
Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 25, ...
Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project represents one of the largest and most ambitious river improvement projects ever constructed in the United States. The project's origins date... More
Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 25, ...
Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project represents one of the largest and most ambitious river improvement projects ever constructed in the United States. The project's origins date... More
![[Floodgates at dam facility] - Color separation negative, public domain](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDUvMDEvMDEvZmxvb2RnYXRlcy1hdC1kYW0tZmFjaWxpdHktOS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/39/webp "[Floodgates at dam facility] - Color separation negative, public domain")
[Floodgates at dam facility] - Color separation negative, public domai...
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Arrowrock Dam, Idaho - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More
Gatun Dam and south lake entrance to locks
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Upstream side of the completed Murray Dam in March 1918 (Huber Papers,...
Illustration shows the Murray Dam, an Eastwood multi-arch type dam. Illus. in: Building the ultimate dam : John S. Eastwood and the control of water in the West / Donald C. Jackson. Lawrence, Kansas : Universi... More
Norris Dam and powerhouse. Norris generator hall. Turbines are enclose...
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Pickwick Dam.Transformers in back of generator hall, switchyard mounte...
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Employee housing. One of several house types developed for very low re...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chickamauga Dam and powerhouse. View of Chickamauga spillway floodligh...
Original Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) number: K 2230. Title and other information from caption sheet entry. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division... More
Chickamauga Dam and powerhouse. Reception room, looking upstream. Glas...
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![Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzUvMDEvMDEvZm9ydC1sb3Vkb24taWUtbG91ZG91bi1kYW0tdGVubmVzc2VlLXRlbm5lc3NlZS12YWxsZXktYXV0aG9yaXR5LXR2YS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)")
Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority...
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Egypt. Thebes to southern border of Egypt. Air view. Assuan Dam, looki...
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Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of t...
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Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroele...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A group of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FFSA / OW...
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A black and white photo of two men working on a boat. Great Depression...
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California photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War ...
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Power house at Roosevelt Dam, Roosevelt, Arizona
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Cable machine operator. Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California
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Concrete mixing plant at Bonneville Dam, Oregon
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Wheelhouse from which aerial tram which delivers materials to construc...
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Crosscountry transmission of power from Bonneville Dam, Oregon
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Boat going through navigation locks at Bonneville Dam, Oregon
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A black and white photo of a construction site. Office of War Informat...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. One of the tail towers which su...
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Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Workers cr...
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Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Electrical swi...
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Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (T...
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Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. View of the dam under construct...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Fort Loudon i.e., Loudoun Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
![Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5NDIvMDEvMDEvZm9ydC1sb3Vkb24taWUtbG91ZG91bi1kYW0tdGVubmVzc2VlLXRlbm5lc3NlZS12YWxsZXktYXV0aG9yaXR5LXR2YS1jb25zdHJ1Y3Rpb24tNS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction")
Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority...
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Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Oil barges le...
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Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Operator of steam shovel used f...
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Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Transmissi...
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Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Loading truck with excavated di...
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Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia Basin Reclamation Project, Wash. A portion ...
No. CB-6629. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at ... More
Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Excursion ste...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Face of the dam under construct...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Excursion stea...
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Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Spraying insec...
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Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Roller dam at Gallipolis locks - safety film negatives, Library of Con...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Gallipolis, Ohio. Roller dam at Gallipolis locks
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Spring pulpwood drive, Brown Company timber holdings. Pulpwood sluicin...
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Aerial view of sludge dam at Shumate's branch
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Shumate's Branch was settled in the 19th century by Green Clay (son of Charles and Aura Clay) and his wife Betsy Ann, d... More
Pathfinder Dam, a masonry dam on the North Platte River, southwest of ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The dam is named for General John Charles Fremont, who was nicknamed the "Pathfinder of the West" after exploring the area in 1842 Cre... More
A view of Hoover Dam, which straddles the Arizona and Nevada borders o...
By trapping the river's waters, it created what is now the massive Lake Mead National Recreation Area, a portion of which is seen above. Called Boulder Dam from the date of its dedication in 1935, the concrete-... More
Part of the complex of buildings, dam components, and electrical tower...
Called Boulder Dam from the date of its dedication in 1935, the concrete-arch dam was renamed after former U.S. president Herbert Hoover in 1947. Now a popular tourist attraction, the dam's generators provide p... More
Aerial view of the 2010 Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge p...
Like the dam, the bridge, which primarily carries U.S. highway 93 vehicular traffic, straddles the border between Arizona and Nevada in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River. The bridge, which became a favorit... More
The Celebrated trotting Stallion Patron by Pancoast dam by Cuyler: Rec...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1027.
Illinois Waterway, Starved Rock Lock and Dam , 950 North 27th Road, Ut...
Survey number: HAER IL-164-D National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 04000166
Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 15, Upper Mis...
Significance: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nine-Foot Channel Project (1927-1940) represents the culmination of a 100-year effort to improve the navigability of the Upper Mississippi River between the mouth ... More
San Carlos Irrigation Project, Ashurst-Hayden Dam, Gila River, T4S R11...
Survey number: HAER AZ-50-A Public domain photograph of river bank, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dam No. 4 Hydroelectric Plant, Potomac River, Martinsburg, Berkeley Co...
Significance: Each plant epitomized the predominant low head hydroelectric technology in use at the time of its construction, Dam 4 uses tandem, multiple-runner, horizontal shaft turbines connected by rope driv... More
Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...
Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More
Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...
Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More
Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR
Significance: Owyhee Dam is a 417-foot-high, concrete thick-arch dam (or arch/gravity dam). At its completion in 1932, Owyhee was the tallest dam in the world, a short-lived distinction because it was superced... More
Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR
Significance: Owyhee Dam is a 417-foot-high, concrete thick-arch dam (or arch/gravity dam). At its completion in 1932, Owyhee was the tallest dam in the world, a short-lived distinction because it was superced... More
Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR
Significance: Owyhee Dam is a 417-foot-high, concrete thick-arch dam (or arch/gravity dam). At its completion in 1932, Owyhee was the tallest dam in the world, a short-lived distinction because it was superced... More
Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR
Significance: Owyhee Dam is a 417-foot-high, concrete thick-arch dam (or arch/gravity dam). At its completion in 1932, Owyhee was the tallest dam in the world, a short-lived distinction because it was superced... More
Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR
Significance: Owyhee Dam is a 417-foot-high, concrete thick-arch dam (or arch/gravity dam). At its completion in 1932, Owyhee was the tallest dam in the world, a short-lived distinction because it was superced... More
Illinois Waterway, Brandon Road Lock and Dam , 1100 Brandon Road, Joli...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a canal, barge, historic place, water reflection, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The great racing crack Hindoo, by Virgil, dam Florence, by Lexington
Print shows a jockey on a running horse, facing left. M16432 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1881, by Currier & Ives, N.Y. Copyright stamp on top left corner. Gale, 2866 Conningham, 2185
Kachess Dam, Outlet Channel, Kachess River, 1.5 miles north of Interst...
Survey number: HAER WA-79-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hoover Dam, Explosives Magazines, About 75 feet west of Lower Portal T...
Significance: These two explosive magazines were constructed for storage of dynamite used in the early phases of construction of Hoover Dam, possibly as early as 1931 for blasting the route of the Lower Portal ... More
Upper Doughty Dam, 200 feet west of Garden State Parkway, 1.7 miles we...
Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Keechelus Dam, Yakima River, 10 miles northwest of Easton, Easton, Kit...
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Keechelus Dam, Yakima River, 10 miles northwest of Easton, Easton, Kit...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Keechelus Dam, Yakima River, 10 miles northwest of Easton, Easton, Kit...
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Hamilton Street Dam, Lehigh River upstream of Hamilton Street Bridge, ...
Significance: The Hamilton Street Dam is an integral part of the Lehigh Canal, which was of major economic importance in the development of industry in the Lehigh Valley in the nineteenth century. The V-shaped... More
San Carlos Irrigation Project, Pima Lateral, Main Canal at Sacaton Dam...
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Lawrence Canal, Lawrence Dam, Lawrence & Merrimack Canals, Lowell, Mid...
Significance: The existing dam was built in 1845 to replace the original one constructed in 1831. Its purpose was to maintain the water level in the Lawrence Canal, which is powered the Lawrence Mills. Survey... More
Carlsbad Irrigation District, McMillan Dam, On Pecos River, 13 miles N...
Significance: The Pecos Irrigation and Improvement Company constructed McMillan Dam in 1893 as part of an overly-ambitious plan to irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres in the Pecos Valley. The reservoir cre... More
Lowell Canal System, Pawtucket Dam, Merrimack River,above Pawtucket Fa...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
City Mills Company, Dam, Eighteenth Street & First Avenue, Columbus, M...
Significance: The south face of the dam was documented after breaching in 2013. The construction of the dam revealed by breaching is typical of stone gravity dams. Large irregular stones were stacked in a hor... More
The celebrated trotting Stallion Alexander by Ben Patchen, dam by Cana...
Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Mormon Flat Dam, On Salt River, Eastern Maricopa County, east of Phoen...
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