River and Dam Projects

Photographs from the 1930s showing water management projects, including dam construction and water channels in rural regions.

Floods 1955 , Floods, Rocks, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
Floods 1955 , Floods, Rocks, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
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The landing square of the City of Viennas warehouse during the ice blow on February , Verlag or k, University bookstore R, Lechner Wilh, Müller, photographer, publisher
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Zuiderzeewerken: Wieringermeerdijk in old sow, in background construction at Medemblik Sept. 10 1928..
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Image of the work during the construction of the viaduct in Rijksweg 22 in Utrecht on Stadionlaan.n.b. The street name Rijksweg 22 was changed in Waterlinieweg in 1993.
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in australia an old blur hydrant and the empty sky concept of safety
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White pine seedlings, planted spring 1939, Belchertown Nursery, Belchertown, Mass., June 16, 1939 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture
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Road Construction Equipment and Crew at Work. State: Germany.
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Sample load of telephone posts.
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Construction of a wooden scaffolding and brickwork for a bridge poll on the eastern bank of the Kali Brantas south of Malang, seen from Opzij (Photo VII), Anonymous, c. 1890 - c. 1920 photograph Photo with the corresponding caption on the left page. Part of photo album with recordings of the construction of a bridge over the Kali Brantas south of Malang on Java. Java cardboard. paper. photographic support engineering. landscape with bridge, viaduct or aqueduct. bridge. building-site. scaffold (~ building activities). river bank. river Dutch East Indies, The. Java. Kali Brantas
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Project 23 - Redwing (Enewetak/Bikini) Test Activities. LACROSSE cab on Runit Isl., showing pipe array for diagnostic experiments. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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Elsevier photo collection. Dredging outer harbor Scheveningen. 19 June 1953. Scheveningen, South Holland
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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Petah-Tikvah. The 'Marzefin' Co. Marble works. Marble slabs cut by gang-saw. 1939, Israel, Petaḥ Tiḳṿah
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Laying Pipeline. 1900 - 1954. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Crow Creek Agency. 1949-1954. Photographs
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Cleaning out pool at Shaft #8, Ware River Intake Works, looking northwesterly, Barre, Mass., Aug. 30, 1940 , waterworks, aqueducts, engineering
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Low water at Plantage Accaribo, 1913 - 1930 stereograph View of the river with scaffolding and boats at Plantage Accaribo. Suriname glass plantation Soulame. Plantage Accaria
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Vintage Photograph. Old water wheel near Jackson Wyoming.
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S.O. Goenoengsari. Artwork in Den Grooten Wegjong - Kasijan. 30-4-27., 1927 photograph Masonry for the supply and drainage channels of the factory under a road, April 1927. With posing Javanese workers. Part of the photo album with photos of the construction of the sugar factory in Goenoengsari on East Java by the Handels Vereniging Amsterdam 1926-1927. East Java photographic support gelatin silver print East Java
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Oglala Dam (Cutting Pile Tops). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Bridgeschool in Hedel. Construction of a floating bridge.
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Casting for bridge foundation.
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Aerial recording Vaqn Kampong Kajoe Batoe Cape SOWADJA Imby Bay. October 1956. Imby bay, Kajoe Batoe, Guinea
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Contract No. 17, West Portion, Wachusett-Coldbrook Tunnel, Rutland, Oakham, Barre, looking east in Quabbin Aqueduct at Sta. 722+28 on north side, west of Ware River Intake, Barre, Mass., Apr. 16, 1936
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Long Bell Lumber Company, Cowlitz County, Washington. Log pond 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Cowlitz County
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Oglala Dam Project (Trash Rack on Intake). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Port Security at Grand Coulee Dam, Washington. The U.S. Coast Guard maintains 24 hour patrols to insure safety at Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state, covering every square foot of the lake which extends 153 miles to the Canadian border.
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Grinding math in the gravel team.
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Massachusetts - Graves. Courses 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31 set up at contractors' quarry: at left stones crated ready for shipment: in foreground, part of Course 32.
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Padang Halaban - Water supply, Shibaya, 1937 photograph Water supply and installation for the water supply on the Padang Halaban plantation, February 1937. Second print, loose in Melinexhoesje, from a photo stuck to album blade 3. Part of the photo album about the Pernantian and Brussels of the Sumatra Caoutchouc Society on the east coast of Sumatra In the years 1935-1939. Sumatra photographic support gelatin silver print plantation. (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: palm oil. water-supply and draining, pipework (in house or building) Sumatra
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Contract No. 103, Construction of Work Boat for Quabbin Reservoir, Quincy, view taken from amidships looking aft, note holes in plank floors for bilge ventilation, Quincy, Mass., Nov. 25, 1940
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Description: West Indies. 'Sugar in the West Indies - General Pictures. A mule pulling a steel punt loaded with cane along the canals on the Diamond plantation near Georgetown, British Guiana'. Photograph No.: D.48497. Official West Indies photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Location: West Indies Date: 1960 caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens
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Major Project. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Distribution Department, Northern High Service Middlesex Fells Reservoir, concrete slope of Dam No. 4, from the south, Stoneham, Mass., Jul. 21, 1899 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites
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The bridge construction for double tracks over the canal between Rönninge stream.
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undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports
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Contract No. 125, Constructing Marine Railway for Quabbin Reservoir, Belchertown, caster dolly on the ramp dolly, looking northwesterly, marine railway, Belchertown, Mass., Dec. 24, 1941
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Menufia Canal, Egypt: reconstruction work to the first Aswan Dam: a metal lock gate on a trolley. Photograph by F. Fiorillo, 1910.
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Logging: Fluming - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Drawing water for irrigating. 1898. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Water use , Mexico, Horses, Water pumps
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Henry Peter Bosse, Construction of Rock and Brush Dam, LW 1891, 1891 Construction of Rock and Brush Dam, L.W. 1891
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View of the beach at Jamestown, Accra, showing the breakwater with a large crane on the jetty. There are several African workers lugging cargo on the beach and a wooden rowing boat being pushed up the beach by a group of men. Original manuscript caption: Show the breakwater at low tide. Jamestown Accra.
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Building (Interior, Potato Storage House). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Contract No. 119, Furnishing and Setting Two Granite Pylons, Belchertown, Ware, pylon at southern end of Winsor Dam, looking northerly, completed, Quabbin Reservoir, Belchertown and Ware, Mass., Jan. 22, 1944
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The whey (depicted - name).Whale (depicted - name)
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Distribution Department, Chelsea Reservoir, crack in lining after removing loose material, Chelsea, Mass., Nov. 29, 1918 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, construction sites
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Construction that was commissioned during 1960 in Oxelösund harbor for transport and storage of raw materials for the ironworks.
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Ware River, Ware Mills Otis Co. dam, drainage area - 168 square miles, flow - 1684 cubic feet per second - 10.0 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ware, Mass., 1:00 PM, Sep. 18, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events
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Construction of the middle piece of a bridge on the eastern shore of the Kali Brantas south of Malang (Photo XV). Photo with the corresponding caption on the left page. Part of photo album with recordings of building a bridge over the Kali Brantas south of Malang on Java.
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Contract No. 80, High Level Distribution Reservoir, Weston, settlement along north side of gatehouse, high level distribution reservoir, Weston, Mass., Nov. 6, 1940
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Canalization Molenbeek Roosteren. undated. Limburg, Roosteren
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Rotterdam view architecture dolphinarium photography
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Trailing pile left by gold dredge. Nye County, Nevada 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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The bridge construction for the double track over the channel between Rönninge - stream.
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Front window to be replaced with stucco panel, Spa Building, Wachusett Reservoir, Clinton, Mass., Sep. 10, 1941 , waterworks, real estate, residential structures, luncheonettes
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Inclined plane: Machinery for raising and lowering tub boats to and from different levels on a canal. From 'A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation' by Robert Fulton (London, 1796). Robert Fulton (1765-1815) American engineer. Engraving.
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Nursery Work: Seed Beds - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Construction of Community Housing Project Barn / Men Working. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Spinning wheel of Mahatma Gandhi, India, Asia, 1948 India Copyright: xJayanxMitra/DinodiaxPhotox -
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Bircham Bend, 3, Gage #2, United Electric Light Co., Springfield, Mass., May 15, 1928 : Chicopee River , Stream-gaging stations, waterworks, real estate, rivers, hydroelectric dams, watershed sanitary conditions, railroad bridges
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Jauer, Sian Kie, Chinese trader, jetty 320 meters length construction. December 1953. Jauer, Guinea
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Vintage Photograph. Pools for fingerling trout in a trout hatchery.
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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa The 'Wolfman' Ltd. Cement pipe & tile factory. Cement pipes of large dimensions. 1939, Israel, Haifa
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Photo collection Government information service. Factories, Gardens, Calve, Ruys Mien. undated. Delft, South Holland
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Ile-de-Ré, France Man working in the salt marshes , 1920-1921 - Charente, Gironde, Basse -Pyrénées, Hautes Pyrénées - Fernand Cuville (French - Ile-de-Ré , France Homme travaillant dans les Marais salants). Ile, work scene, exists in high definition, rural life, body of water, fishing , sea trades, man, Daily life, HD, economic activity, human beings, France, Ile-de-Ré, Marais Salant
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Contract No. 85, Manufacture and Delivery of Precast Concrete Steel Cylinder Pipe, Southborough, Framingham, Wayland, Natick, Weston, canvas covers over 11 ft. and 6 in. pipe sections for cold weather protection, Lock Joint Pipe Co., Natick, Mass., Oct. 27, 1939
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Los Angeles Pigeon Farm, overlooking the Los Angeles River and surrounded by fields. Hundreds of pigeons perched on top of two of the cotes. The Farm was established in 1898 and located alongside the Los Angeles River and across from Elysian Park. It benefited from its proximity to the railroad tracks, as the free-flying pigeons could scavenge grain dropped from passing railroad cars. In 1914, heavy rains caused the Los Angeles river to flood, and much of the farm was washed away. Many of the es