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Aqueducts - Hudson River Crossing - Catskill Aqueduct construction(?) – Vintage Wall Art

Aqueducts - Hudson River Crossing - Catskill Aqueduct construction(?), [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Aqueducts - Hudson River Crossing - Catskill Aqueduct construction(?), [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Catskills collection.

(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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Aqueducts - Hudson River Crossing - Catskill Aqueduct construction(?)

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This photograph is catalogued as a view of the Hudson River crossing on the Catskill Aqueduct, though the caption card carries a question mark after "construction," so the exact work shown is not confirmed. New York City built the Catskill system in the early twentieth century to carry water roughly 120 miles from the Catskill Mountains to the city's growing population. Where the aqueduct passed under the Hudson, engineers bored a deep tunnel beneath the riverbed, a feat that drew wide press attention at the time. The print comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a large body of news photographs, and it is worth noticing the tunnel-building, civil engineering, and water-supply themes the cataloguers recorded.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--Water-supply; NY--NYC--Aqueduct; Tunnels; Civil engineering; Aqueducts; Water; Construction; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,142 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138540

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