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Collection  D 003:
Vallecito Dam (La Plata County, Colo.)
construction photos
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Photograph title

Date

Photographer

Description of this image

Original photo #

Photoprint #

View of right abutment along upstream cofferdam face

1938-10-23

Bateman, A. F.

Looking along the upstream face of the permanent cofferdam toward the right abutment. The trucks and Le Tourneaus are on top of the temporary cofferdam, wasting sand from embankment stripping to fill the spade between the two dams.

Pine R - 104

D003113

Subject terms:
Water diversion--Colorado--Pine River--Pictorial works--1938-1940
Pine River Irrigation Project (U.S.)--History
Vallecito Reservoir (Colo.)--History

Biographical note: Major C. A. Burns (grandfather of Dr. William R. Burns, the owner of the album containing the original photographic print) was a construction engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers in the construction of the Vallecito Dam, 1938-1940.

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