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(BUREAU OF RECLAMATION) A selection of 39 photographs documenting water and power systems in the West, including the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam and Power Plant. The Bureau of Reclamation constructed dams, power plants, and canals in 17 western states, the height of which occurred during the Great Depression using Civilian Public Service labor. About half of the photographs document the Grand Coulee Dam, at the time the largest concrete structure in the world, and half depict other water and power systems projects in the West, including the Shasta Dam in Northern California and Boulder Dam, as well as canals in Arizona. Silver prints, the images measuring 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with a combination of date stamps, press stamps, N.E.A. stamps, and Bureau of Reclamation stamps, numerous captions and notations in pencil and/or ink, typed captions, and/or Culver Pictures stamps, labels and barcodes, on verso. 1933-42
