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GUNNISON RIVER PROJECT. U.S. RECLAMATION BUREAU. CANAL UNDER 2000 FEET WATER TO UNCOMPHAGRE VALLEY
Library of Congress · 1912 · Harris & Ewing
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection, LC-DIG-hec-03508 No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights
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Ground level at a Reclamation dedication on the Gunnison River Project: officers in the front, the public strung along the far bank, and the canal still empty.
Shows: A federal irrigation works on its opening day, from inside the crowd rather than above it.
What this does not let you conclude: A settled date. See the note above -- the catalogue says 1912 and the occasion looks like the 1909 opening, and nothing here resolves it. The Library dates the Harris & Ewing negative 1912. The frame shows a dedication crowd at a dry canal, and the Gunnison Tunnel was opened in September 1909 -- the catalogue's date and the scene do not obviously agree, and the date here is the catalogue's.
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