Miss. River Power Plant, Keokuk – Vintage 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Miss. River Power Plant, Keokuk in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Miss. River Power Plant, Keokuk
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The Mississippi River power plant at Keokuk, Iowa, harnessed the river's fall over the Des Moines Rapids to generate electricity for the surrounding region. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied newspapers in the early twentieth century, made the negative, so the picture was likely meant for press use. With no date recorded, the exact year is uncertain, but the dam's construction in the 1910s places it in an era when hydroelectric projects symbolized modern engineering. Note the scale of the structure against the open river.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,791 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40580 |
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