Drainage canal of Nochistongo, [Mexico] – Antique Print
![Drainage canal of Nochistongo, [Mexico], [1884-1885] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/79/79ec931557e9-L.webp)
(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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This historic photograph of Drainage canal of Nochistongo, [Mexico] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Drainage canal of Nochistongo, [Mexico]
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Nochistongo was a long cut through the hills north of Mexico City, built to drain the closed Valley of Mexico and keep floodwaters out of the capital. Work on the drainage began in the early 1600s and went on in fits and starts for centuries, and the project was still unfinished when William Henry Jackson, working for the Detroit Photographic Company, photographed it around 1884 to 1885. The picture shows the channel as an engineering project in progress, a record of the effort to control a valley whose lake-bed setting had long made the city vulnerable to flooding.
| Created / published | [1884-1885] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by William Henry Jackson (Detroit Photographic Co.). No. 8533. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Canals. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 905 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155099 |
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