New England hydroelectric dam construction photograph album

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  Photograph albums documenting ship building at the yard in National City, California, and construction of dams

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  252 photographs from 3 albums (2 have been disbound) chiefly documenting ship building at the Concrete Ship Constructors shipyard in National City, California, in the early 1940s and construction work on dams. The images of the ship yard depict equipment and machinery, workers and supervisors, views of ships including the Concrete No. 1 ship, as well as an award ceremony. The collection also includes photographs documenting various dam projects including the Alcova Dam Project by the W.E. Callahan Construction Co. and Gunther and Shirley, in Wyoming in 1935-1937; the Madden Dam by W.E. Callahan Construction Co. and Peterson, Shirley and Gunther on the Chagres River in Panama in 1933-1934 (20 views); and a few images of miscellaneous construction including on the Shasta Dam in California, Obey River Dam in Celina, Tennessee, and the North Conches Dam in San Angelo, Texas. There are also a few later snapshots of construction projects, including ones from the 1960s documenting a Pacific Link Belt truck and crane. Collection accompanied by the booklet "Teamwork Wins," documenting a contest held by Concrete Ship Constructors, National City, California, April 1944. The collection was compiled by Arthur B. Summers, a hull superintendent of Concrete Ship Constructors in the 1940s.

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  Travel album including Yosemite, New England, and Yellowstone

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  Album of amateur snapshots taken during trips chiefly in California, New England, and Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, from 1903 to 1905, with handwritten captions identifying the locaions depicted. The album begins with photographs documenting a trip to California beginning in the Yosemite Valley in May 1903 before progressing to Mariposa Grove, the Sacramento River, Shasta Springs, Sisson (Mount Shasta), San Francisco, the University of California, Berkeley, campus, including houses identified as "my homes," Santa Cruz, Monterey, the Hotel Del Monte, and the Santa Barbara Mission. There are images of New England and Upstate New York from 1903 to 1905 including Lake Pleasant, Massachusetts, Deerfield Valley, Connecticut, Charlestown, New Hampshire, South Framingham, Massachusetts, winter in Boston Harbor (1903-04), Lake Winnipesaukee, Seal Harbor and Mt. Desert Maine, and the New York State Capitol in Albany. There are also photographs from a trip in Summer 1905 to Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, with stops along the way in St. Paul, Minnesota, and at Minnehaha Falls, Minneapolis. Of note are a few photographs of President Theodore Roosevelt's arrival in Yosemite, including one captioned "President Roosevelt and John Muir." The photographs primarily depict the natural scenery including waterfalls, lakes, trees, and mountains, as well as hotels, tourist destinations, and landmarks. There are also some images of ice skating, sledding, and sleigh rides during the winter of 1904-05 in New England. The compiler of the album is unidentified though there is one photograph of a young couple on horseback at Yosemite labeled "You and I."

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  New England Art Museums, Summer 1947

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  One booklet entitled New England Art Museums, Summer 1947, published by the Council of Directors of New England Art Museums, 1947. This directory of the art museums in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont is 14 numbered pages in length.

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  Survey and construction photographs of Boulder (Hoover) Dam

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  Survey and construction photographs documenting Boulder (Hoover) Dam. The album holds 94 pages with prints. A small number of newspaper articles, project brochures and an additional 80 loose prints of various sizes are included in the box containing the album.

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  Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 & 2, construction of Huntington Lake Dams 1, 2, & 3, and Dam 4, power tunnels, intakes, etc

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  [Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 & 2, construction of Huntington Lake Dams 1, 2, & 3, and Dam 4, power tunnels, intakes, etc.]

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  Big Creek, Huntington Lake Dams - Removing old construction trestle

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  Big Creek, Huntington Lake Dams - Removing old construction trestle - upstream face of dam.

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