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Metadata
Catalog Number |
AL-937-912-3-65 |
Title |
Construction Photos of Fresno Dam |
Search Terms |
Fresno Dam Wachter, O'Neil, Megary Brothers Construction O'Neil Family Knopp Family Mogeory Family Bullman Family Doyle Family |
People |
Knopp, Adolph Doyle, Pat Mogeory, Bill Bullman, Otis O'Neil, Tip |
Description |
1937-1939 Construction photos of Fresno Dam. The dam was constructed by Wachter, O'Neil and McGarry Brothers Construction. The dam took 2 1/2 years to build. 3. Clay pocket leak. 4. First well points - Dam cutoff trench. 5-8. Dam base - River level. 9-10. Barrow pit. 11. Cranes. 12-17. Back-fill cutoff trench. 18. Sheetfoot roller. 19. Bottom of the first stage well points. 20. Wellpoint pumps. 21. Aggregate stockpiles for concrete ready mix. 22. Aggregate storage bins. 23. North bank concrete cut-off wall. 24. Dam cut-off wall - no end. 25-27. Building spill-way walls. 28. Pouring spill-way floor. 29. Spill-way. 30. Back-fill spill-way wall. 31. Pouring spill-way crest. 32-33. Stilling Basin. 34. Spill-way construction. 35-36. Warped spill-way wall. 37. Dome form gate house in tunnel. 38. Tunnel forms. 39. Trash rack. 40. Tunnel trash rack. 41. Tunnel outlet end. 42. Tunnel trash rack (This is the tunnel Adolph Knopp, a worker, went through and was killed.) 43. Spillway settling basin (This is where Adolph Knopp drown.) 44. River diverted through tunnel. 45. Dam upstream. 46. Dam construction. 47-48. Construction equipment. 49. Pat Doyle (?). 50. Well points. 51-57. Dam construction. 58. View of dam construction equipment in a single-file line. 59. Bill Mogeory. 60-62. Construction camp. 63. Otis Bullman. 64-65. Tip O'Nel standing by a truck wrecked during construction. |
Date |
ca 1937 |
Collection |
Al Lucke Collection |
Caption |
Tip O'Neil by Truck Wreck |
Subjects |
Dam construction |
Place |
Hill County, Montana |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |