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Shasta Dam construction photographs [graphic]/
BANC PIC 2001.050--PIC
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Title:
Shasta Dam construction photographsCreator/Contributor:
Colby, W. Howard., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Pacific Constructors, IncCreator/Contributor:
United States, Bureau of Reclamation.Abstract:
Views of various stages and aspects of the construction of Shasta Dam, showing laborers and other personnel, machinery, transportation
methods, and construction progress.
Date:
1938-1945 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caCentral Valley Project (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Dams -- Design and construction -- California -- Photographs
Blue collar workers -- California -- Photographs
Hydroelectric power plants -- California -- Photographs
Water resources development -- California -- Photographs
Shasta Dam (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Note:
taken by Howard Colby.
Title supplied by cataloger
Date supplied by cataloger, based on years of dam construction.
All photographs are stamped on versos, "Official photograph, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation".
Howard Colby was hired by Pacific Constructors, the builders of Shasta Dam, to document the dam's construction. Shasta Dam
was one of the first major structures completed as part of the Central Valley Project.
Type:
graphicProgress photographs.
Physical Description:
graphic
photoprint
26 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2001.050--PIC