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Labor housing
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Description: This page contains information
about Sutter County,
near Yuba City, California.
Front of multiple family dwelling in Yuba City Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.),
each unit will house six families, each family occupies two stories, completely
separate from others.
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Labor housing
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Description: This page contains information
about Sutter County,
near Yuba City, California.
Detail of front view of multiple family dwellings in Yuba
City farm workers community, (F.S.A.) Each unit to
house six families, each family occupies two stories, for hot weather, bedrooms
on second floor ventilation by flaps which provide through ventilation and wall
construction of a sheet material which is finished surface and insulation.
Construction just completed.
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Labor housing
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Description: This page contains information
about Sutter County,
near Yuba City, California.
Multiple family dwellings of the Yuba City Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.).
Buildings are oriented for winter sunlight and prevailing breezes.
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Labor housing
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Description: This page contains information
about Sutter County,
near Yuba City, California.
Multiple family dwellings of the Yuba City Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.).
Construction just completed of six units for families, members of which are
steadily employed in the vicinity; note the elimination of telephone poles.
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Labor housing
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Description: This page contains information
about Ryer Island,
Sacramento County, California.
Housing in barracks for Japanese crew of asparagus packers and their families
on ranch world's largest asparagus district.
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Labor housing
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Description: This page contains information
about Rear Shafter, Kern County, California.
Company housing for potato and cotton pickers on U.S. Highway 99.
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Labor housing
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Description: This page contains information
about Sacramento, California.
Fifty to sixty families pay $1 per month ground rent. No sanitary facilities
are provided. Water is taken from a well one pump. Occupied by seasonal
agricultural workers, seasonal cannery workers on and off relief.
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Labor housing / Agricultural
laborers
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Description: This page contains information
about Chandler, Maricopa, County, Arizona.
One unit of agricultural labor housing. FSA cooperative part-time farm after
three years of occupancy. There are four units, each with 8 apartments. Rentals
$9. to $13. per month, plus $6. for utilities. Operated in conjunction with 300
acre dairy farm.
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Labor housing /
Agricultural laborers
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Description: This page contains information
about Chandler, Maricopa
County, Arizona. One unit of
agricultural labor housing. FSA cooperative part-time farm after three years of
occupancy. There are four units, each with 8 apartments. Rentals $9. to $13.
per month plus $6. for utilities. Operated in conjunction with 300-acre dairy
farm.
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Labor housing /
Agricultural laborers
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Description: This page contains information
about Chandler, Maricopa
County, Arizona. Housing on FSA
cooperative part-time farm, after 3 years of occupancy.
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Labor housing / Automobiles
/ Trees / Work camps / Auto camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Contra Costa County, California.
Portion of the Davis camp seen from
the roof of Mr. Davis' store.
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Labor housing / Bicycle
& tricycles / Work camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Contra Costa County, California.
Two-room cabins, with inside running water, provided in labor camp of
large-scale fruit ranch, for year-round workers. Seasonal workers occupy a tent
village adjoining.
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Labor housing / Bicycles
& tricycles
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Description: This page contains information
about Chandler, Maricopa
County, Arizona. One unit of
agricultural labor housing. FSA cooperative part-time farm after three years of
occupancy. There are four units, each with 8 apartments. Rentals $9. to $13.
per month plus $6. for utilities. Operated in conjunction with 300-acre dairy
farm.
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Labor housing / Children /
Boys / Work camps / Auto camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Contra Costa County, California.
Another view of the Davis Auto Camp housing.
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Labor housing / Children /
Girls / Work camps / Auto camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Contra Costa County, California.
Quarters for agricultural workers on and off relief provided in the Davis Auto
Camp.
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Labor housing / Children /
Shrubs
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Description: This page contains information
about Shafter, Kern County, California.
Another farm labor home in the Arvin Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.). These
homes are designed for agricultural workers steadily employed in the District.
Rent is $8.20 per month, which includes electricity.
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Labor housing /
Clotheslines
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Description: This page contains information
about Dern County, California.
Company housing for field workers. Two privies. Seventeen family units. Water
from the well. Families pay for electricity only. Ranch raises cotton, hay
grapes.
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Labor housing /
Clotheslines
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Description: This page contains information
about Sacramento, California.
Fifty to sixty families pay $1 per month ground rent. No sanitary facilities
are provided. Water is taken from a well one pump. Occupied by seasonal
agricultural workers, seasonal cannery workers on and off relief.
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Labor housing /
Clotheslines
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Description: This page contains information
about Sacramento, California.
Fifty to sixty families pay $1 per month ground rent. No sanitary facilities
are provided. Water is taken from a well one pump. Occupied by seasonal
agricultural workers, seasonal cannery workers on and off relief.
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Labor housing /
Clotheslines / Privies / Mobile homes
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Description: This page contains information
about Sacramento, California.
Fifty to sixty families pay $1 per month ground rent. No sanitary facilities
are provided. Water is taken from a well one pump. Occupied by seasonal
agricultural workers, seasonal cannery workers on and off relief.
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Labor housing / Community
centers
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Description: This page contains information
about Sutter County,
near Yuba City, California.
Sewing center in Yuba City Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.), for occupants of
labor homes.
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Labor housing / Construction
camps / Employment / Winter
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Description: This page contains information
about Landscape with buildings
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Labor housing / Construction
camps / Employment / Winter
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Description: This page contains information
about Landscape (poor quality)
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Labor housing / Cotton
plantations / Tents / Afro-Americans
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Description: This page contains information
about Cortaro Farms, Pinal County, Arizona.
Quarters for Negro cotton pickers on industrialized cotton farm.
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Labor housing / Croplands
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Description: This page contains information
about Westley, Stanislaus County,
San Joaquin, California.
Migratory labor camp (F.S.A.) seen from water tower, during pea harvesting
season, showing pea fields beyond. Note steel shelters, tents, unoccupied tent
platforms, trailers. 174 families, 748 persons in camp. Sixty percent on
(F.S.A.) cash relief grants. Many families have been forced to leave the
government camps because labor contractors control the field work and demand
that workers live in contractor camps.
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Labor housing / Croplands /
Work camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Shafter, Kern County, California.
Looking down on part of the Shafter Farm Labor Camp (F.S.A.) in cotton and
potato district. This is one of the older camps opened in 1937. The third of
fifteen camps now operating (June 1940).
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Labor housing / Fences /
Work camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Sacramento, California.
Close-up of home in Louis' Camp.
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Labor housing / Fences /
Work camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Sacramento, California.
A home in Louis' Camp.
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Labor housing / Fruit
industry / Work camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Contra Costa County, California.
Housing provided for year-round employees, in labor camp, large-scale fruit
ranch. The larger house in foreground is occupied by the camp manager.
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Labor housing / Gardens /
Community centers
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Description: This page contains information
about Sutter County,
near Yuba City, California.
Multiple family dwelling of the Yuba City Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.).
Photograph made from top of water tower. Homes designed for families with a
member steadily employed in the vicinity; six families occupy each unit. Small
buildings in center contain social center, laundry, and sewing rooms. Each family
to be allotted separate garden plot. Construction just completed.
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Labor housing / Huts
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Description: This page contains information
about Kern County, California.
Housing on abandoned grower's ranch camp, now being occupied as permanent
residence by agricultural workers on and off relief. Note irrigator's boots
before door.
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Labor housing / Landscape
pavilions / Croplands
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Description: This page contains information
about Westley, Stanislaus County,
San Joaquin, California.
Migratory labor camp (F.S.A.) seen from water tower, during pea harvesting
season, showing pea fields beyond. Note steel shelters, tents, trailers, and
emergency community school (large tent) for migrant children. 174 families, 748
persons in camp. Sixty percent on (F.S.A.) cash relief grants. Many families
have been forced to leave the government camps because labor contractors
control the field work and demand that workers live in contractor camps.
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Labor housing / Pails /
Auto camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Contra Costa County, California.
Quarters for agricultural workers on and off relief provided in the Davis Auto
Camp. Note bucket (covered with white cloth) which contains drinking water.
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Labor housing / Refuse
disposal
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Description: This page contains information
about Sutter County,
near Yuba City, California.
Garbage disposal unit in Yuba County,
near Yuba City, California,
in Yuba City. Farm Workers
Community (F.S.A.).
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Labor housing / Shelters /
Health care facilities
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Description: This page contains information
about Sutter County,
near Yuba City, California.
View of camp for seasonal workers in Yuba City Farm Workers Community (F.S.A.).
Note steel shelters, a type of housing which replaces the use of tents in the
newer camps. Note clinic of Agricultural Workers Health and Medical Association
(F.S.A.).
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Labor housing / Streets /
Work camps
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Description: This page contains information
about North of Sacramento, Sacramento, California.
Looking down one of the five short streets leading from the highway in Louis'
Camp.
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Labor housing / Work camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Sacramento, California.
A view of Louis' Camp seen from across the road. Note crowding of structures,
as many as possible on the available space. Rent for ground alone is $3 per
month.
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Labor housing / Work camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Sacramento, California.
Louis' Camp just outside the city limits. 150 families pay ground rent ($3 per
month) and erect their own shelters. Serves as winter quarters for many migrant
seasonal agricultural worker families. Mexican, white, and a few Negro
families, together with Filipino men, inhabit the camp.
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Labor housing / Work camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Sacramento, California.
A typical dwelling in Louis' Camp.
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Labor housing / Work camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Shafter, Kern County, California.
A farm labor home (F.S.A.). One of forty on a tract which joins the migratory
labor camp (F.S.A.). The homes are designed for workers who have steady
employment in the district. The rent is $8.20 per month, which includes
electricity and water. Note camp for migratory workers beyond.
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Labor housing / Work camps
/ Children / Dogs / Auto camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Contra Costa County, California.
Entrance to Davis Auto Camp. Family
with 10 children live in the trailer on the left.
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Laboratories / Blood /
Hospitals / Microscopes / People associated with health & safety /
Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women
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Description: This page contains information
about Granada Relocation
Center, Amache,
Colorado. A young technician in the
hospital laboratory, preparing a blood count.
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Laboratories / Blood /
Hospitals / People associated with health & safety / Women /
Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Granada Relocation
Center, Amache,
Colorado. Four technicians and a patient in
the hospital laboratory. A blood test patient.
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Laboratories / Hospitals /
Examinations / Chemists / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation /
Relocation camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Jerome Relocation
Center, Denson,
Arkansas. Tom Arase, former California
Bio-Chemistry student, performs a gastro analysis in the center hospital
laboratory.
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Laboratories / Hospitals /
Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / People
associated with health & safety
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Description: This page contains information
about Jerome Relocation
Center, Denson,
Arkansas. In the laboratory at the center
hospital, Iiuao Oyama, laboratory technician, performs a urinalysis. Oyama, a
former Californian of Japanese ancestry, now resides at the Jerome
Center.
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Laboratory schools / Indian
schools / Buildings
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Description: This page contains information
about View From Near Hospital, 1909
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Laborers
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Description: This page contains information
about Taos County, New Mexico.
N.Y.A. boys at work behind Harwood Foundation.
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Laborers
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Description: This page contains information
about The crew: Marshall Fry, Claude Fry, Mose Fry, L.D. Blondell, Wm. Reives,
E.E. Dunbar, Gene Fry, W.T. Reinhards, Jean Ewen.
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Laborers / Brick industry /
Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Factories / Building
materials industry / Relocation camps
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Description: This page contains information
about Poston, Arizona.
Adobe factory. Wheeling adobe bricks from stand to drying racks in the sun.
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Laborers / Bridge
construction
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Description: This page contains information
about “Hanging the floor on the sand and gravel conveyor bridge.“
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Laborers / Camps
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Description: This page contains information
about A narrative report compiled by Camp Superintendent Harvey Hoff on Camp DG-60,
Hagerman, Idaho.
7:30 O'Clock Work Call. The men are
turned over to the Work Agency and they are being informed of changes in
assignment. The punctuality of this ocurrence is considered by John Simmons, on
the extreme right, reliable enough for him to 'peg up' his Ingersoll.
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Laborers / Canal construction
/ Building materials / Civil engineering / Progress photographs / Structural
frames
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Description: This page contains information
about Huntley, Montana
Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Headworks excavation and tunnel portal
timbering.
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Laborers / Canal construction
/ Canals / Equipment / Horse teams / Horse railroads / Civil engineering / Progress
photographs
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Description: This page contains information
about Huntley, Montana
Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Fly Creek siphon and concrete mixer, looking
east.
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Laborers / Canal construction
/ Canals / Horse teams / Animals / Employment / Progress photographs / Yokes /
Horse railroads
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Description: This page contains information
about Huntley, Montana
Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Just starting tunnel No. 2 at west portal, Huntley
Main Canal,
Division 1.
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Laborers / Canal Construction
/ Equipment / Concrete / Employment / Building materials / Civil engineering
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Description: This page contains information
about Huntley, Montana
Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Concrete mixer at Cross Cut Tunnell. Sand and
gravel bins deliver direct to mixer.
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Laborers / Cliffs / Dam
construction
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Description: This page contains information
about “High-scalers working on Arizona
abutment.“
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Laborers / Concrete
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Description: This page contains information
about Man smoothing concrete
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Laborers / Construction /
Equipment / Reinforced concrete construction / Hydraulic facilities / Progress
photographs
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Description: This page contains information
about Huntley, Montana
Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Arrow Creek Crossings, showing paving blocks of
concrete being placed. Smith mixer on bank.
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Laborers / Construction /
Hydraulic facilities / Aqueducts / Progress photographs / Employment / Building
materials
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Description: This page contains information
about Huntley, Montana
Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Flume 502. Showing forms partially up and bars
in place.
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Laborers / Culverts
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Description: This page contains information
about Work crew standing with concrete culverts
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Laborers / Culverts
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Description: This page contains information
about Concrete culverts are rolled into place
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Laborers / Dam construction
/ Cableways
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Description: This page contains information
about “Workmen going on shift in skip operated over Six Companies Inc.,
Cableway No. 9.“
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Laborers / Dam construction
/ Cofferdams / Hoisting machinery
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Description: This page contains information
about “Workman placing steel piling in cofferdam cell.“
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Laborers / Dam construction
/ Concrete
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Description: This page contains information
about “Grouting crew at work on upper levels of Arizona
abutment. The grout mixture is being introduced into 50-foot holes under
100-pounds per square inch pressure supplied from grout rig stationed below.“
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Laborers / Dam construction
/ Vehicles / Transportation
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Description: This page contains information
about “Double-decked coach used in transporting Six Companies, Inc., workmen
from Boulder City to dam. Capacity 150 men.“
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Laborers / Dams / Hoisting
machinery / Building materials / Employment
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Description: This page contains information
about Stock pile practically exhausted, Lower Yellowstone
dam.
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Laborers / Digging
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Description: This page contains information
about Work crew of men moving rocks
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Laborers / Digging
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Description: This page contains information
about Truck trails. One of the maintenance crews.
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Laborers / Digging
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Description: This page contains information
about Truck trails. Shank's crew on road maintenance.
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Laborers / Drilling /
Drilling & boring machinery / Dam construction
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Description: This page contains information
about “Jackhammers on west side bedrock.“
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Laborers / Drilling /
Drilling & boring machinery / Dam construction
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Description: This page contains information
about “Jackhammers on west bedrock.“
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Laborers / Drilling /
Drilling & boring machinery / Dam construction
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Description: This page contains information
about “Jackhammers on west bedrock.“
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Laborers / Drilling /
Drilling & boring machinery / Dam construction
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Description: This page contains information
about “Jackhammers in west bedrock.“
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Laborers / Employment / Stone
quarrying / Dam construction
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Description: This page contains information
about Detailed view showing face of quarry, Lower Yellowstone
dam.
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Laborers / Equipment /
Portrait photographs
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Description: This page contains information
about Stock Driveway. John Simmon's crew. This crew has worked on construction
of stone snow fences, the Stock Driveway, and rock excavation.
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Laborers / Farming /
Willows
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Description: This page contains information
about CCC workers planting willow sprouts
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