Quarters of the engineers of the Zuni Black Rock dam building in 1907 - washed away soon after completion.

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Title: Quarters of the engineers of the Zuni Black Rock dam building in 1907 - washed away soon after completion.
Alternative Title: The Zunis were suspicious of the purpose of this dam and took no interest in it. The laborers were almost all Navajo, Isletas, and other Indians. Th
Creator: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935
Published / Created: 1907
Abstract: Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, a member of John Wesley Powells second expedition down the Colorado River (1871-1873); author of the Romance of the Colorado River and A Canyon Voyage, and numerous other books.
Description: Manuscript captions. With envelope: ""Black Rock Zuni, engineers of the dam headquarters, etc.""
Some of photographic contact sheets and prints from original negatives not included in Beinecke Library Digital Images Online.
Extent: 1 photographic print
8 x 10.5 cm.
b&w

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: WA Photos 271
Collection Title: Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh collection of photographs and drawings of the Colorado River region.
Collection/Other Creator: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935
Collection Date: 1871-1934
Container / Volume: Box 2 | Folder 40

Access: Public
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Citation: Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh Collection of Photographs and Drawings of the Colorado River Region. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.