Public Works Administration Project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam in Oregon, Columbia River, 40 miles East of Portland Oregon’ 16 Oct. 1936
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#OTD in 1936
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‘Downstream view of construction operations of the northern half of the main dam at the Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam, #ColumbiaRiver, Oregon
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‘Public Works Administration. #USArmyCorpsOfEngineers. #Salverton #Missouri, Dams under construction, Upper Mississippi River Navigation Improvement. October 11, 1934.’
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#OTD in 1934
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‘U.S. Engineers. Mississippi River Lock #22. “P.W.A.” Contract #W741 Eng 1394. Main lock lower gate area. Placing concrete in sill. Lock #22, Saverton, Missouri, under construction.’
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‘Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes delivers his talk at the dedication of Hoover Dam (then Boulder Dam).
30 September 1935.’
#BureauOfReclamation photographer
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#OTD in 1937: a New Deal Dedication (1)
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Dedication by FDR of the Bonneville Dam
28 September, 1937
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‘The slide took the lives of 8 men on September 22, 1938. Fort Peck Dam, Fort Peck, Montana.’
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