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 15 b&w photos |  3 data pages |  3 photo caption pages |  5 color transparencies |
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TITLE:
St. Mary River Bridge & Siphon, Spanning St. Mary River, Babb vicinity, Glacier County, MT
CALL NUMBER:
HAER MONT,18-BABB.V,1-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 15 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 2 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 3
Color Transparencies: 5
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
RELATED NAME(S):
Minneapolis Bridge Company
Murphy, Kevin, transmitter
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Quivik, Fredric, historian
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
NOTE:
Survey number HAER MT-22
Building/structure dates: 1915 initial construction
Significance: The Reclamation Act of 1902 authorized the U.S. Reclamation Service of the Department of the Interior to undertake numerous irrigation projects to make arid land farmable. One of those projects in Montana was the Milk River Project intended to irrigate an estimated 250,000 acres. Most of the lands to be irrigated were along the Milk River from the point at which it re-enters the U.S. from Canada (NW of Havre) at the mouth of the Milk below Glasgow...
SUBJECTS:
MONTANA--Glacier County--Babb vicinity
agriculture
civil engineering
aqueducts
COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.mt0085
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW LOOKING EAST, GENERAL ELEVATION
2. VIEW LOOKING NORTHEAST, GENERAL ELEVATION
3. VIEW LOOKING SOUTHWEST, GENERAL ELEVATION
4. VIEW LOOKING SOUTHEAST, 3/4 ELEVATION
5. VIEW LOOKING SOUTHEAST, SHOWING PORTAL
6. VIEW LOOKING SOUTHEAST, SHOWING SIPHON PIPES
7. VIEW LOOKING NORTHWEST, 'BARREL SHOT'
8. VIEW LOOKING NORTHWEST, FROM MID-BRIDGE
9. VIEW SHOWING MANUFACTURER'S DATEPLAQUE AND UPPER CHORD
10. VIEW LOOKING NORTHWEST FROM DECK, SHOWING ENDPOSTS
11. VIEW LOOKING NORTHEAST, DETAIL OF ENDPOST AND HIP VERTICAL
12. DETAIL OF PIN CONNECTION AND LOWER CHORD
13. VIEW SHOWING UNDERSIDE OF DECK AND FLOOR BEAMS
14. VIEW SHOWING SIPHON AND CONCRETE PIERS
15. VIEW SHOWING SIPHON OUTLET AT IRREGATION DITCH
VIEW LOOKING EAST, GENERAL ELEVATION
VIEW LOOKING SOUTHEAST, SHOWING PORTAL
BARREL SHOT OF SIPHON AND BRIDGE
VIEW LOOKING SOUTHEAST, SHOWING PORTAL
VIEW LOOKING EAST, SHOWING SIPHON PIPES
CONTROL #:
MT0085
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