Overflow, Roosevelt Dam – 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.)
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A window into the past: Overflow, Roosevelt Dam, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Roosevelt Dam, on the Salt River northeast of Phoenix, is the subject here, and the title "Overflow" points to water spilling over the structure itself. Built by the federal Reclamation Service and named for Theodore Roosevelt, who dedicated it in 1911, the dam was among the first large irrigation projects of the new reclamation program in the American West. This long panoramic print was registered for copyright in February 1916 by James M. McCulloch, whose listed address was Phoenix, Arizona. Its wide format suits a structure this large, and it records how the reservoir and spillway looked in the years after the dam opened.
| 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 | 2,549 × 733 px · prints to 8 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 6a00752u overflow roosevelt dam |
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