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[Spillway Excavation]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 27) is of workers with a wagon removing large rocks from a shallow pit. The second image (numbered 53) is of a pit with large rocks. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Removing Rock from Spillway Exc." taken on 10-17-24, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Erie Shovel in S.E. Corner of Spillway Exc." taken on 11-10-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Unloading Dragline and Garza Dam North]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 24) is of various machinery being unloaded from railroad cars; a horse-drawn wagon is near the railroad tracks. The second image (numbered 20) is of horses hitched to a mechanism in a field. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Unloading Bucyrus Class 24 Dragline" and (bottom) "Garza Dam North from South Bank" both taken 10-17-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Outlet Conduits]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 70) is of a small crane excavating a shallow trench. The second image (numbered 75) is of a row of horse-drawn wagons with two small cranes in a shallow trench. Handwritten text on the images identify them both as "Garza Dam Excavating for Outlet Conduits," taken 11-17-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Pile Driver]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 62) is of a tall steel structure on the edge of a trench with men standing next to it. The second image (numbered 63) is of a steel structure with a horse-drawn wagon and lumber on the ground nearby. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Beginning to Drive Steel Sheet Piling Cut-Off" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Pile Driver for Steel Sheet Piling N. Bank of River," bo… more
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Spillway Excavation]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 25) is of two horse-drawn wagons and a crane excavating a pit. The second image (numbered 26) is of a shallow pit with men working amongst piles of dirt. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Excavating for North End of Spillway" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Looking North along Spillway Excavation," both taken on 10-17-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Scene during Wellington coal shortage]

Description: Photograph of a scene during the coal shortage in Wellington. There are several horse-drawn wagons crowding a dirt road. A note accompanying the photograph states that coal was used in cast iron stoves for cooking and heating, and that during the shortage coal was brought to the County and each family was allowed to purchase two sacks. During the shortage, corn, cottonseed, and wood were burned as alternatives to coal.
Date: 1924
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Collingsworth County Museum
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