Roosevelt Dam – Antique Print
![Roosevelt Dam, [between 1918 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7b/7b7ed98745fd-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.)
Description
Roosevelt Dam comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Rather than a ground-level view of the concrete wall, this glass negative records Roosevelt Dam from the air, a rare vantage for the period, and it captures the structure as an engineering landmark set into the rugged Salt River canyon in central Arizona. The dam was built between 1905 and 1911 by the U.S. Reclamation Service to store water for irrigation in the Salt River Valley, and it was named for President Theodore Roosevelt, who authorized the Newlands Reclamation Act's projects and dedicated the work in 1911. The National Photo Company, a commercial firm active in the early twentieth century, produced large numbers of such views for sale to the public. The negative's date is an estimate from the surrounding negatives, so the image is best read as a late-1910s record of a dam already long in service.
| Created / published | [between 1918 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one. |
| Subjects | Dams. Aerial photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Dam (Ariz.) United States--Arizona--Maricopa County--Gila County Theodore Roosevelt Dam. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,319 × 5,110 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 17362u roosevelt dam |
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