The Flow over Bear Trap Dam, Chicago Drainage Canal, Lockport, Ill's. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The Flow over Bear Trap Dam, Chicago Drainage Canal, Lockport, Ill's., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Flow over Bear Trap Dam, Chicago Drainage Canal, Lockport, Ill's.
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Bear Trap Dam at Lockport, Illinois, regulated the water moving through the Chicago Drainage Canal, and this view shows the water pouring over its gates. The canal, completed around 1900, reversed the flow of the Chicago River so that sewage and waste were carried away from Lake Michigan, which had been Chicago's drinking water source. Detroit Publishing Company photographers worked across the country around 1908, documenting engineering works and scenic places for sale as postcards and prints, and this glass negative captures the scale of the canal's public-works engineering.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | G 4800" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071025. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Bridges. Dams. Canals.United States--Illinois--Lockport.United States--Illinois--Sanitary and Ship Canal. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-72431 |
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