Workmen Atop Abutment of Conconully Dam, Overlooking Pond and Puddle Core ca. 1907
Rating
Title
Workmen Atop Abutment of Conconully Dam , Overlooking Pond and Puddle Core ca. 1907
Photographer
Matsura , Frank , 1873-1913 .
Description
A crew stands with their horses and buckscrapers atop one of the abutments , or valley sides , of the dam . Below them is a view of the pond , in which water used to sluice rock-fill down from the borrow pits is allowed to sit and seep out silt , fine sand and other such material that will form a core wall made of "puddle " for the inside of the dam .
Subject
Construction--Washington (State)--Conconully ; Dam Construction--Washington (State)--Conconully ; Laborers--Washington (State)--Conconully
Date
1907~
Type
Image
Genre
Progress photographs
Location
North and Central America--United States--Washington (state)--Okanogan county--Conconully Reservoir
Identifier
pc035b2f48n20
Source
Is found in PC 35, Frank S. Matsura Collection https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/pc35.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item went into public domain 70 years after the 1913 death of the author.
Restrictions
For permission to publish please contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (509) 335-6691 or the Okanogan Historical Society (509) 422-4272
Format
Original photographic prints were scanned as 300 dpi TIFF files on a Microtek 9600XL scanner. 72 dpi JPEG files were then added to the CONTENT database at the WSU Libraries.
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