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Rio Grande Reservoir Road - correspondence and lawsuit - photograph

Water Resources Archive, Colorado State University · 1916 · Unidentified author

A photograph, 1916. The first leaf of the file the archive catalogues as “Rio Grande Reservoir Road - correspondence and lawsuit - photograph”.
From the archive · Water Resources Archive, Colorado State University · 1916 Rio Grande Reservoir Road - correspondence and lawsuit - photograph Unidentified author

Records of the San Luis Valley Irrigation District, Water Resources Archive, Colorado State University. Public domain. Archive record ↗ · Rights

Source Archival record · verify at Water Resources Archive, Colorado State University ↗ Source Probable join · The item's own place field names San Luis Valley, which is Division 3; the field does not narrow it to one water district. The archive gives the place as “San Luis Valley (Colo. and N.M.)”, which crosses a state line: the frame itself may be outside Colorado.

From the Records of the San Luis Valley Irrigation District at Colorado State University, 1916. The archive's own record says this photograph is believed to be in the public domain.

Shows: One page -- the first of 139 scanned -- of the file the archive catalogues as “Rio Grande Reservoir Road - correspondence and lawsuit - photograph”. Place, as the archive gives it: San Luis Valley (Colo. and N.M.).

What this does not let you conclude: The catalogue's words are the archive's, and archives inherit their donors' errors: the date, the place and the names are what the record says, not what we checked. Only the first of 139 pages is shown here, so nothing in the rest of the file is evidence for anything on this page. The item's own place field is blank; it sits under this division because of the collection it came from, not because the record names a place. Nothing here says what the structure or the right does today. The date is the archive's catalogue date, not a date read off the item.

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