Overflow, Roosevelt Dam – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Overflow, Roosevelt Dam. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Overflow, Roosevelt Dam
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Few views of early western water engineering are as sweeping as this panorama of overflow spilling from Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River in Arizona. The dam, named for President Theodore Roosevelt, was built by the federal Reclamation Service between 1905 and 1911 to store water for irrigation in the Phoenix area, and it was among the tallest masonry dams in the world when completed. This print was registered for copyright in February 1916 by James M. McCulloch of Phoenix, a photographer who documented the project. Its long format, roughly 7.5 by 36 inches, shows the scale of the spillway and reservoir that the dam created.
| Created / published | c1916. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7.5 x 36 in. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints.Panoramic photographs. |
| Notes | Copyright deposit; James M. McCulloch; February 11, 1916; DLC/PP-1916:45058. Copyright claimant's address: Phoenix, Ariz. |
| Subjects | Dams. Reservoirs.United States--Arizona--Theodore Roosevelt Dam. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,298 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-203944 |
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