Record Details
"Amity Canal"
Mountain Scholar
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | "Amity Canal" |
| Subject | Irrigation canals and flumes -- Arkansas River Watershed Hydraulic structures -- Design and construction Construction workers Concrete construction -- Formwork Construction equipment Arkansas River Watershed |
| Description | On envelope: "Amity Canal, Culvert W. Br. Horse Cr. #148 - Old line of canal before construction of culvert began July 15, 1907, #149 - Same, #150-1-2-3 Excavating with fresno cable and hoist engine July 29, '07, #154-5 Concrete work Aug 1907". First two images show men and a woman on old canal bank. Images three through six show workers digging canal using a fresno scraper powered by a cable and hoist engine rather than horses. The West Branch Horse Creek mentioned here is a small branch of... |
| Date | 1907-07-1907-08 2018-07-11T20:12:27Z 2018-07-11T20:12:27Z |
| Type | Photograph |
| Identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/189694 |
| Relation | wwdl "Amity Canal". 1907 July-August Photographs of the Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land Company. Series 1: Photographs; Subseries 1.3: Prints and negatives. Finding aid: https://lib2.colostate.edu/archives/findingaids/water/wavs.html |
| Format | image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg |
| Coverage | Arkansas River Watershed Prowers County (Colo.) 1907-07-1907-08 |
| Publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries |
| Source | Original: 8 4x6-inch nitrate negatives |
