Miss. River Power Plant, Keokuk - Placing Concrete in Wall – Vintage 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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Step back in time with Miss. River Power Plant, Keokuk - Placing Concrete in Wall, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Miss. River Power Plant, Keokuk - Placing Concrete in Wall
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This view shows concrete being poured into a wall at the Mississippi River power plant at Keokuk, Iowa, a hydroelectric station built across the river in the early 1910s to harness the river's fall at the Des Moines Rapids. Large dams and powerhouses like this one were major engineering projects of the period, and the scene captures the heavy, manual work of forming and filling massive concrete walls. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers. The record gives no exact date, and the title comes from unverified caption data, so the scene is best read as a document of construction-era work at the site.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,792 × 4,229 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40577 |
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