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• Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Improvised protection for a stream bank, Ridgway, Colorado (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Central tower from which cable buckets carry materials used in the construction of Shasta dam, California (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bearing in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tenn. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Shasta dam under construction, California (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Switch yard at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, vicinity of Sheffield, Ala., 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be increased to a

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Construction at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Construction work at the TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Eight generator units in the generator room of a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Located 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kw., which

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Generator hall of the powerhouse, Chickamauga Dam, Tenn. The dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 108,000 kw.

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Early stages of construction work at the TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Village of Deviatiny and the Saint Boris dam. [Russian Empire] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1909
  • Date uploaded: 2013-08-30
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• [Opstigningen til Nordkap (i.e., Nordkapp), Hornviken, Norway] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1890
  • Date uploaded: 2009-01-06
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• Turning a river into the heart of a mountain and out the other side (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1909-07-25 00:00:00
  • Date uploaded: 2009-06-08
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• Austin/Dam Flood, wreck of School House (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• Austin Dam Disaster, on bank of Sinnemahoning Creek, [Pennsylvania] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1911
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• Austin Dam Disaster - RR Bridge, Costello (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• [The square, palace, and church, Amsterdam, Holland] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1890
  • Date uploaded: 2009-11-20
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• Amsterdam Dam, [Holland] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1890
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• Mayor Mitchel opens gates (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1915
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• [On the Allan Water, Bridge of Allan, Scotland] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1890
  • Date uploaded: 2009-04-17
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• Gatun spillway dam, Panama (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2011-05-20
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• Colossal bar of masonry nearing completion in a recent haunt of the savage Apache. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1907-03-17 00:00:00
  • Date uploaded: 2009-08-07
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• Spring floods will mightily test the new Colorado dam before long. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1907-03-10 00:00:00
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