(INDUSTRIAL) Album entitled Fort Peck Dam Montana containing

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Album entitled "Fort Peck Dam, Montana" containing more than 100 modernist photographs relating to the U. S. Army Engineer's construction project. Silver prints, 7 3/4x9 1/2 inches (19.6x24.1 cm.), a few are smaller, mounted on recto only, most are linen backed, many with notations in the negative or a typewritten caption on verso. Oblong 4to, stiff wrappers with a mounted photograph on the front cover. 1934-1936

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The album contains an apparently unique selection of images that recalls (but pre-dates) Bourke-White's iconic Ft. Peck photographs for LIFE magazine's inaugural issue, published on November 11, 1936. Features many accomplished modernist views depicting the construction of the dam organized in visual chapters: dredging operations, building rock and gravel toes, spillway construction, diversion tunnel construction, the Missouri River bridge, scenes of electrical distribution, views of the local town, multiple aerial pictures of the site, and Federal Project work crews. Fort Peck Dam was constructed by hydraulic methods and is still the largest hydraulic earth-filled dam in the world.