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Waddington's Antique Auction House (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
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1912
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1031
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A photograph album documenting an irrigation project on the Snake River in Arizona, precise location unknown. The images depict a dam, construction camp, excavation, ferries, cranes, pumping stations, canals and personnel.
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United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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circa 1968-1975
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4 Copy prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.77-60
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs documenting Hohokam canals, excavations of Hohokam houses, and the surrounding desert. A photograph dated 1968 is by E.E. Hertzog.
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Beemer , John A., 1879-
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1907-1956
bulk 1919-1931
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3 Cubic feet (4 boxes; 3 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0957
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers document Beemer's engineering activities as a civil engineer who worked on irrigation and dam related projects.
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Currie, William
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1904-1912
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1043
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
William Currie was a civil engineer and photographer who worked during the early twentieth century. The photograph album documents irrigation systems in the western United States, sewage systems in Louisville, Kentucky, and work on the Panama Canal.
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Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
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November, 1899
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16 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1553
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Also newsclipping, 1 column. Note on flyleaf by Gatschet, "Hodge said, April 1, 1904, that Tiwa and Tewa were not exactly the same dialect," explains Gatschet's previous unawareness of this distinction.
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1953
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1 Film reel (12 minutes, black-and-white sound; 406 feet, 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.1992.06
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Human Studies Film Archives
Edited film is a story of a one day visit by pack train to the Havasupai tribe living in the Grand Canyon. Film consists of some footage of the village, irrigation farming, weaving of willow baskets, making and cooking "squaw" bread, preparation of a sweat lodge, a harvest festival consisting of rodeo activities, and cliff dwelling ruins. The film ...
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Petersen, Dean F., 1913-1989
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1952-1977
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0967
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents some of the writings by Dean F. Petersen, a civil engineer specializing in water resource management.
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Havens, O. C.
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1923-1924
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27 negatives (nitrate)
34 prints (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.83-16
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Havens while visiting the Zuni in the 1920s, including images of Zuni Pueblo, people, ceremonies, irrigation work, and a shrine. Also included are photographs showing Pueblo Bonito expedition vehicles stuck in the mud after rains. Many photographs have brief annotations on their versos, probably by Havens.
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Adams, Robert McC. (Robert McCormick), 1926-2018, interviewee
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1984
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3 audiotapes (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9602
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Oral History Program is part of the Smithsonian Institution Archives. The purpose of the program is to conduct interviews with current and retired members of the Smithsonian staff who have made significant contributions, administrative and scholarly, to the Institution. The project's goal is to supplement the published record and manuscrip...
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Meyer, Frank Nicholas
- Dates:
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circa 1900
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1 Print (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.91-7
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Image of four men working a pumping apparatus, probably in Central China, for irrigation or draining purposes. According to the original catalog card, the apparatus "consists of an endless chain of paddles moving over two axles and forcing water along a trough in the cuds of which the axles are placed. The power is by treadmill or crank moved by ...