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Arrowrock Dam, [Idaho] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Arrowrock Dam, [Idaho] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Roosevelt Dam, [Arizona] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Roosevelt Dam, [Arizona] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[Mormon Flat Dam with double-gated spillway on right side on the Salt River, Maricopa County, Arizona]

[Mormon Flat Dam with double-gated spillway on right side on the Salt ...

3158. Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of electric power plant, generation, free ... More

Shasta dam under construction, California

Shasta dam under construction, California

11671-31. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Roosevelt Dam showing small amount of impounded water because of extended drought. This is the main source of water for irrigation in the Salt River Valley. Gila County, Arizona

Roosevelt Dam showing small amount of impounded water because of exten...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Boulder Dam. Nevada - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Boulder Dam. Nevada - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Norris Dam, Tennessee - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Norris Dam, Tennessee - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Friant Dam, Central Valley Reclamation Project, Calif. Panoramic view of downstream face of dam showing structure complete except for drum gates and control valves and miscellaneous installations

Friant Dam, Central Valley Reclamation Project, Calif. Panoramic view ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cherokee Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Spillway

Cherokee Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Spillway

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

View of the Cheesman Dam from its vast reservoir in Jefferson County, Colorado. Cheesman is one of the dams that slows and captures water from the South Platte River for use as part of Denver's drinking-water supply. Cheesman Dam, which was named for Walter Scott Cheesman, a Denver druggist, railroad builder, and designer of water infrastructure, was the world's tallest at 221 feet when it was completed in 1905

View of the Cheesman Dam from its vast reservoir in Jefferson County, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Cheesman was the first reservoir of Denver's mountain storage facilities that helped expand Denver Water's system. Built by immigrant ... More

Water cascades down venerable Cheesman Dam in Jefferson County, Colorado. Cheesman is one of the dams that slows and captures water from the South Platte River for use as part of Denver's drinking-water supply. Cheesman Dam, which was named for Walter Scott Cheesman, a Denver druggist, railroad builder, and designer of water infrastructure, was the world's tallest at 221 feet when it was completed in 1905

Water cascades down venerable Cheesman Dam in Jefferson County, Colora...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The reservoir the dam created was the first in Denver's mountain storage facilities that helped expand Denver Water's system. Built by... More

Guntersville Dam on the Tennessee River, Guntersville, Alabama

Guntersville Dam on the Tennessee River, Guntersville, Alabama

Guntersville was founded by German immigrant John Gunter (the great-grandfather of American humorist Will Rogers). It is located at the southernmost point of the Tennessee River on Lake Guntersville, formed by ... More

Bloede Dam, Spanning Patapsco River, Avalon, Baltimore County, MD

Bloede Dam, Spanning Patapsco River, Avalon, Baltimore County, MD

Significance: In 1907, the Patapsco Electric and Manufacturing Company contracted Ambursen Hydraulic Construction Company to build the Bloede Dam using Nils F. Ambursen's patent. The proposed dam would generate... More

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam Powerplant Complex, Grand Coulee, Grant County, WA

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam Powerplant Complex, Grand Cou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dam, reservoir, quarry, or excavation site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kaukauna Lock & Dam, Fox River at Canal Street, Kaukauna, Outagamie County, WI

Kaukauna Lock & Dam, Fox River at Canal Street, Kaukauna, Outagamie Co...

Significance: The Kaukauna Locks and Dam Complex provides passage around drop in elevation of 50 feet in the Lower Fox River at Kaukauna. The complex served as an integral part of the Lower Fox River Waterway ... More

Gallipolis Locks & Dam, Dam, Across Ohio River, Gallipolis, Mason County, WV

Gallipolis Locks & Dam, Dam, Across Ohio River, Gallipolis, Mason Coun...

Significance: The dam consists of eight bays with moveable gates. The roller gates are the most important engineering feature of the site and are the largest in the country. Survey number: HAER WV-58-A

Trenton Falls Hydroelectric Station, Dam & Headworks, On west bank of West Canada Creek, along Trenton Falls Road, 2 miles north of New York Route 28, Trenton Falls, Oneida County, NY

Trenton Falls Hydroelectric Station, Dam & Headworks, On west bank of ...

Significance: Strongly influenced by the earliest Niagara hydroelectric project, the 1901 Trenton Falls Station was installed in a spectacular gorge and was probably the highest-head contemporary plant in the e... More

Horse Mesa Dam, Salt River, 65 miles East of Phoenix, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Horse Mesa Dam, Salt River, 65 miles East of Phoenix, Phoenix, Maricop...

Significance: It was the second dam constructed under the Salt River Project's hydroelectric expansion program in the 1920s. Survey number: HAER AZ-15 Building/structure dates: 1927 Initial Construction Nati... More

Prado Dam, Spillway, Santa Ana River near junction of State Highways 71 & 91, Corona, Riverside County, CA

Prado Dam, Spillway, Santa Ana River near junction of State Highways 7...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 5, Minneiska, Winona County, MN

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

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Significance: Hume Lake Dam was the world's first reinforced a concrete multiple arch dam. Built to impound reservoir for the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company, today it is the only major surviving structure represe... More

Boise Project, Boise River Diversion Dam, Across Boise River, Boise, Ada County, ID

Boise Project, Boise River Diversion Dam, Across Boise River, Boise, A...

Significance: The Boise Diversion Dam and Powerplant are important components in the Boise Project, a Bureau of Reclamation effort to irrigate the Boise and Payette River valleys in Idaho. The diversion dam, co... More

Boise Project, Boise River Diversion Dam, Across Boise River, Boise, Ada County, ID

Boise Project, Boise River Diversion Dam, Across Boise River, Boise, A...

Significance: The Boise Diversion Dam and Powerplant are important components in the Boise Project, a Bureau of Reclamation effort to irrigate the Boise and Payette River valleys in Idaho. The diversion dam, co... More

Mountain Dell Dam, Parley's Canyon, Northwest side of I-80, West of State Route 39, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, UT

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

Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 25, Cap au Gris, Lincoln County, MO

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

[Floodgates at dam facility] - Color separation negative, public domai...

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Reclamation built Lahontan Dam on the Newlands Project between 1911 and 1915 - this is the left spillway overflowing

Reclamation built Lahontan Dam on the Newlands Project between 1911 an...

Illus. in: The Bureau of Reclamation : Origins and Growth to 1945, v. 1 / William D. Rowley. Denver, Colorado : U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, 2006, p. 232 (4.29).

Wilson Dam, Aug. 15, 1927,  Panoramic Photograph

Wilson Dam, Aug. 15, 1927, Panoramic Photograph

J232104 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; George Lee Bracey; August 31, 1927. No. 21.

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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Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aerial view of Hoover Dam, near Boulder City, Nevada

Aerial view of Hoover Dam, near Boulder City, Nevada

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Deer Creek Dam, Spanning the Provo River at the intersection of U.S. Highway 189 & Deer Creek Reservoir, Charleston, Wasatch County, UT

Deer Creek Dam, Spanning the Provo River at the intersection of U.S. H...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aerial view of a portion the water and surroundings of Lake Mead, created by the construction of nearby Hoover Dam, which straddles the Arizona-Nevada border

Aerial view of a portion the water and surroundings of Lake Mead, crea...

The dam harnessed the Colorado River to create the widespread reservoir in the early 1930s. Lake Mead became the locus of a widespread national recreation area, popular with boaters and fishers. Title, date and... More

Illinois Waterway, Starved Rock Lock and Dam , 950 North 27th Road, Utica, La Salle County, IL

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

John Hollis Bankhead Lock & Dam, On Warrior River below Port Birmingham, Kellerman, Tuscaloosa County, AL

John Hollis Bankhead Lock & Dam, On Warrior River below Port Birmingha...

Significance: The original 1915 dame (tone only one of the original 17) remains, though not easily accessible to the general public. The current dam is 1,400 feet wide, 77 feet high with a lift of 69 feet. Th... More

Milltown Dam, Spillway, Clark Fork River, 6 miles upstream from Missoula, Milltown, Missoula County, MT

Milltown Dam, Spillway, Clark Fork River, 6 miles upstream from Missou...

Survey number: HAER MT-43-B Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

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

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

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

Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR

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

Skagit Power Development, Gorge High Dam, On Skagit River, 2.9 miles upstream from Newhalem, Newhalem, Whatcom County, WA

Skagit Power Development, Gorge High Dam, On Skagit River, 2.9 miles u...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5 Survey number: HAER WA-24-C Building/structure dates: 1961 Initial Construction

Monongahela River Lock & Dam No. 7, River Mile No. 85, Greensboro, Greene County, PA

Monongahela River Lock & Dam No. 7, River Mile No. 85, Greensboro, Gre...

Part of the Monongahela River Recording Project, which included HAER PA-300, Port Perry Bridge; HAER PA-385, Monongahela Navation Company Lock and Dam No. 7; and HAER PA-304, Lower Monongahela River Public Impr... More

American Falls Water, Power & Light Company, Island Power Plant, Snake River, below American Falls Dam, American Falls, Power County, ID

American Falls Water, Power & Light Company, Island Power Plant, Snake...

Significance: This site represents technology associated with the first era of long distance electric power transmission in the state. It is also a representative example of an early low-head hydroelectric pow... More

Mormon Flat Dam, On Salt River, Eastern Maricopa County, east of Phoenix, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Mormon Flat Dam, On Salt River, Eastern Maricopa County, east of Phoen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Reclaiming vast areas by irrigation the great Roosevelt Dam, Yuma, Ariz.

Reclaiming vast areas by irrigation the great Roosevelt Dam, Yuma, Ari...

Stereograph showing Theodore Roosevelt Dam. J218068 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Company. No. 16742.

Illinois Waterway, Marseilles Lock and Dam, 1 Hawk Drive, Marseilles, La Salle County, IL

Illinois Waterway, Marseilles Lock and Dam, 1 Hawk Drive, Marseilles, ...

Significance: Marseilles Lock and Dam Historic District is significant as a component of the Illinois Waterway, which was developed to provide a navigable route from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River and b... More

Grand Coulee Dam, Washington,  Panoramic Photograph

Grand Coulee Dam, Washington, Panoramic Photograph

J 34551 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Chas. A. Libby & Son; June 25, 1942. On front: "Photo by Chas. A. Libby & Son, Spokane, Wash., #24471. 6-12-'42."

Lake Lynn Hydroelectric Power House & Dam, Cheat River, Morgantown, Monongalia County, WV

Lake Lynn Hydroelectric Power House & Dam, Cheat River, Morgantown, Mo...

Significance: When built, the Lake Lynn power house and dam reflected the state of the art in American hydroelectric power technology and developed a very substantial portion of West Virginia's hydrologic resou... More

Milner Dam & Main Canal: Twin Falls Canal Company, On Snake River, 11 miles West of city of Burley, Idaho, Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, ID

Milner Dam & Main Canal: Twin Falls Canal Company, On Snake River, 11 ...

Significance: Milner Dam and its canal system have national significance in agricultural history as a rare successful example of state-supervised private irrigation development provided for in Senator Joseph M.... More

Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 11, Upper Mississippi River, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA

Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 11, 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

Roosevelt Power Canal & Diversion Dam, Parallels Salt River, Roosevelt, Gila County, AZ

Roosevelt Power Canal & Diversion Dam, Parallels Salt River, Roosevelt...

Significance: The Roosevelt Power Canal was built as an integral part of the Salt River Project and represents the U. S. Reclamation Service's first involvement in the construction of hydroelectric power facili... More

Salinas Dam, Salinas River near Pozo Road, Santa Margarita, San Luis Obispo County, CA

Salinas Dam, Salinas River near Pozo Road, Santa Margarita, San Luis O...

Significance: The Salinas Dam, a "hoof" type, inclined, variable radius arch cam, was designed by Raymond A. Hill, an important structural engineer who worked in Los Angeles, California between 1919 and the 196... More

Salinas Dam, Salinas River near Pozo Road, Santa Margarita, San Luis Obispo County, CA

Salinas Dam, Salinas River near Pozo Road, Santa Margarita, San Luis O...

Significance: The Salinas Dam, a "hoof" type, inclined, variable radius arch cam, was designed by Raymond A. Hill, an important structural engineer who worked in Los Angeles, California between 1919 and the 196... More

Horse Mesa Dam, Salt River, 65 miles East of Phoenix, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Horse Mesa Dam, Salt River, 65 miles East of Phoenix, Phoenix, Maricop...

Significance: It was the second dam constructed under the Salt River Project's hydroelectric expansion program in the 1920s. Survey number: HAER AZ-15 Building/structure dates: 1927 Initial Construction Nati... More

Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge, Dam 96, Souris River Basin, Foxholm, Ward County, ND

Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge, Dam 96, Souris River Basin, Fox...

Significance: The dams within the J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge represent a historical movement to preserve wildlife and wildlife habitat in the United States, which began in the mid-19th century and... More

Milltown Dam, Clark Fork River, 6 miles upstream from Missoula, Milltown, Missoula County, MT

Milltown Dam, Clark Fork River, 6 miles upstream from Missoula, Millto...

Significance: The dam and power plant are significant for their association with W.A. Clark, one of the single-most important individuals in the economic and political history of Montana; for its association wi... More

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 8, On Mississippi River near Houston County, MN, Genoa, Vernon County, WI

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 8, On Mississip...

See HAER MN-20, Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project History, Locks and Dams 3-10, for additional information. Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam Project represents one of the l... More

Elwha River Hydroelectric System, Elwha Hydroelectric Dam & Plant, Port Angeles, Clallam County, WA

Elwha River Hydroelectric System, Elwha Hydroelectric Dam & Plant, Por...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N465 Survey number: HAER WA-130-A

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 9, Lynxville, Crawford County, WI

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 9, Lynxville, C...

See HAER MN-20, Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project History, Locks and Dams 3-10, for additional information. Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam Project represents one of the l... More

New Croton Dam & Reservoir, Croton River, Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester County, NY

New Croton Dam & Reservoir, Croton River, Croton-on-Hudson, Westcheste...

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New Croton Dam & Reservoir, Croton River, Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester County, NY

New Croton Dam & Reservoir, Croton River, Croton-on-Hudson, Westcheste...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 5, Minneiska, Winona County, MN

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

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Hume Lake Dam, Sequioa National Forest, Hume, Fresno County, CA

Significance: Hume Lake Dam was the world's first reinforced a concrete multiple arch dam. Built to impound reservoir for the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company, today it is the only major surviving structure represe... More

Boise Project, Boise River Diversion Dam, Across Boise River, Boise, Ada County, ID

Boise Project, Boise River Diversion Dam, Across Boise River, Boise, A...

Significance: The Boise Diversion Dam and Powerplant are important components in the Boise Project, a Bureau of Reclamation effort to irrigate the Boise and Payette River valleys in Idaho. The diversion dam, co... More

Bonneville Project, Bonneville Dam, Columbia River, Bonneville, Multnomah County, OR

Bonneville Project, Bonneville Dam, Columbia River, Bonneville, Multno...

Survey number: HAER OR-11-F Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

Pit 4 Diversion Dam, Pit River west of State Highway 89, Big Bend, Shasta County, CA

Pit 4 Diversion Dam, Pit River west of State Highway 89, Big Bend, Sha...

Significance: The Pit 4 Diversion Dam is important as an original feature of the Pit 3, 4 and 5 Hydroelectric Plant. Pit 4 Dam is an excellent example of early twentieth century hydroelectric architecture and ... More

Pit 4 Diversion Dam, Pit River west of State Highway 89, Big Bend, Shasta County, CA

Pit 4 Diversion Dam, Pit River west of State Highway 89, Big Bend, Sha...

Significance: The Pit 4 Diversion Dam is important as an original feature of the Pit 3, 4 and 5 Hydroelectric Plant. Pit 4 Dam is an excellent example of early twentieth century hydroelectric architecture and ... More

Little Rock Creek Dam, Little Rock Creek, Littlerock, Los Angeles County, CA

Little Rock Creek Dam, Little Rock Creek, Littlerock, Los Angeles Coun...

Significance: When built the Littlerock Dam was the tallest reinforced concrete multiple arch dam in the world. For over fifty years it has provided water for the South Antelope Valley and contributed to the v... More

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 10, Guttenberg, Clayton County, IA

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 10, Guttenberg,...

Significance: The Upper Mississippi River Lock and Dam Project represents one of the largest and most ambitious of such undertakings. With roots in the Progressive Era, the project was adopted by New Deal prop... More

Roosevelt Dam, [Arizona] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Roosevelt Dam, [Arizona] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Granite Reef, gelatin silver print,  Panoramic Photograph

Granite Reef, gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph

Granite Reef diversion dam of the Salt River Project. J179545 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; March 25, 1913. Copyright claimant's address: L.A., Cal. No. 3058.

Roosevelt Dam, Arizona - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Roosevelt Dam, Arizona - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Wilson Dam, Tenn. River, May 22, 1926

Wilson Dam, Tenn. River, May 22, 1926

J283785 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; George Lee Bracey; June 28, 1926. No. 17.

Wilson Dam, gelatin silver print

Wilson Dam, gelatin silver print

Public domain image of an arch structure, bridge, historic place ruins, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Chickamauga Dam and powerhouse. General view of spillway with powerhouse in background. On account of flooding hazard entire powerhouse built of concrete. Main generator hall in high portion, electical controls and offices in downstream bay; projecting wing houses visitors' facilities and air conditioning. Roof of downstream bay developed as overlook terrace

Chickamauga Dam and powerhouse. General view of spillway with powerhou...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico. Great Depression public domain photogr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. Aggregate storage pile which provides crushed stone and sand for the building of the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction at night

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a dam. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a dam. Office of War Information Photograph

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Spring pulpwood drive on Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Wood sluicing through the power dam, Kennebago River

Spring pulpwood drive on Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Wood ...

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

View of an intake tower at Hoover Dam, which straddles the Arizona and Nevada borders, and the Colorado River that it captures, creating what is now the vast Lake Mead National Recreation Area

View of an intake tower at Hoover Dam, which straddles the Arizona and...

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

Welding of the 30' diameter penstocks for the Boulder power plant

Welding of the 30' diameter penstocks for the Boulder power plant

In album: Boulder Dam: a portfolio of photographs prepared for Hon. Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, photographs and format by B.D. Glaha, Boulder City, Nevada, 1934. Inventory title: Top workings o... More

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Bartlett Dam, Verde River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Significance: Bartlett Dam was the first multiple arch dam constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation. It was also the highest multiple arch dam constructed in the United States at the time of its completion. Su... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

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

Owyhee Dam, Across Owyhee River, Nyssa, Malheur County, OR

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

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

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

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam Powerplant Complex, Grand Coulee, Grant County, WA

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam Powerplant Complex, Grand Cou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Keechelus Dam, Yakima River, 10 miles northwest of Easton, Easton, Kittitas County, WA

Keechelus Dam, Yakima River, 10 miles northwest of Easton, Easton, Kit...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, water stream, cascade, nature site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Keechelus Dam, Spillway, Yakim River, 10 miles northwest of Easton, Easton, Kittitas County, WA

Keechelus Dam, Spillway, Yakim River, 10 miles northwest of Easton, Ea...

Survey number: HAER WA-80-C Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Columbia River Bridge at Grand Coulee Dam, Spanning Columbia River at State Route 155, Coulee Dam, Okanogan County, WA

Columbia River Bridge at Grand Coulee Dam, Spanning Columbia River at ...

Significance: The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation constructed this structure as part of the Grand Coulee Dam Columbia Basin Reclamation Project. It is a good example of 1930s steel cantilever bridge design in Washi... More

Carlsbad Irrigation District, McMillan Dam, On Pecos River, 13 miles North of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM

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

Croton Hydroelectric Plant, Spillway, Croton Dam Road at Muskegon River, Croton, Newaygo County, MI

Croton Hydroelectric Plant, Spillway, Croton Dam Road at Muskegon Rive...

Significance: The Croton Hydroelectric Plant spillway was a key design feature of this electrical generation complex, an important example of the work of William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan civil engineer who... More

Wind River Diverson Dam Bridge, Spanning Wind River on County Road No. 24, Morton, Fremont County, WY

Wind River Diverson Dam Bridge, Spanning Wind River on County Road No....

Significance: The Wind River Diversion Dam Bridge consists of eight Warren Pony trusses for a length of 655 feet. This is the greatest number of spans for a highway bridge in the State. Survey number: HAER WY... More

Long Lake Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Spokane River, Ford, Stevens County, WA

Long Lake Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Spokane River, Ford, Stevens C...

Significance: The Long Lake hydroelectric facility is significant as one of the earliest and, for many years, largest hydroelectric generating facilities in The Washington Water Power Company's electrical power... More

Ouachita River Lock & Dam No. 8, Ouachita River at River Mile 282.8, Calion, Union County, AR

Ouachita River Lock & Dam No. 8, Ouachita River at River Mile 282.8, C...

Significance: The Ouachita River Lock and Dam No. 8 is one of the oldest remaining locks and dams in the State of Arkansas. It represents a vital segment in the earliest attempt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engin... More

Milner Dam & Main Canal: Twin Falls Canal Company, On Snake River, 11 miles West of city of Burley, Idaho, Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, ID

Milner Dam & Main Canal: Twin Falls Canal Company, On Snake River, 11 ...

Significance: Milner Dam and its canal system have national significance in agricultural history as a rare successful example of state-supervised private irrigation development provided for in Senator Joseph M.... More

Gene Pump Plant, South of Gene Wash Reservoir, 2 miles west of Whitsett Pump Plant, Parker Dam, San Bernardino County, CA

Gene Pump Plant, South of Gene Wash Reservoir, 2 miles west of Whitset...

Survey number: HAER CA-242 Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Long Lake Hydroelectric Plant, Spillway Dam, Spanning Spokane River, Ford, Stevens County, WA

Long Lake Hydroelectric Plant, Spillway Dam, Spanning Spokane River, F...

Significance: The Long Lake hydroelectric facility is significant as one of the earliest and, for many years, largest hydroelectric generating facilities in The Washington Water Power Company's electrical power... More

Milltown Dam, Clark Fork River, 6 miles upstream from Missoula, Milltown, Missoula County, MT

Milltown Dam, Clark Fork River, 6 miles upstream from Missoula, Millto...

Significance: The dam and power plant are significant for their association with W.A. Clark, one of the single-most important individuals in the economic and political history of Montana; for its association wi... More

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