Roosevelt Dam, Arizona – Historic Print
(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: Roosevelt Dam, Arizona, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Roosevelt Dam, Arizona
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Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River in central Arizona is the particular subject here, a masonry dam completed in 1911 and named for President Theodore Roosevelt, who authorized the federal reclamation project that built it. The dam was a centerpiece of the Salt River Project, which stored water for irrigating the Phoenix area's farmland and became one of the first large works under the Reclamation Act of 1902. This glass negative comes from the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency whose pictures reached newspapers nationwide. The record gives no date, so the exact year of the exposure is unconfirmed.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,722 × 4,141 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-22596 |
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