B.A. Etcheverry water reclamation photograph collection 1900-1925 1908-1914

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B.A. Etcheverry water reclamation photograph collection 1900-1925 1908-1914

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795 photographs that document the building of numerous dams and irrigation works (such as the Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigation Land Company, the Bear River Canal Company, Elephant Butte Dam, Modesto-Turlock Project, Twin lakes Irrigation Company, Umatilla Project, Truckee-Carson Project, and the Riverside-Corina-Corona Project) in the western half of the United States from 1900 to 1917. Images from both private irrigation companies and the United States Reclamation Service (later renamed the Bureau of Reclamation) are included. Some photograph prints also have the original glass negatives.

11 boxes; 5.5 linear ft.

eng,

Utah State University. Merrill-Cazier Library. Special Collections and Archives.Photograph Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6624383

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United States. Bureau of Reclamation

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The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation Service) was a bureau of the Department of the Interior which oversaw water development projects in the western United States. In July of 1902, in accordance with the Reclamation Act 32 Stat. 388, approved June 17, 1902 (also known as the Newlands Act), Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock established the Reclamation Service within the Geological Survey. The new Reclamation Service studied potential water development projects in each western stat...

Etcheverry, Bernard A. (Bernard Alfred), 1881-1954

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Bernard Alfred Etcheverry was born in San Diego, California on June 30, 1881. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1902 with a degree in civil engineering. He was an instructor of civil engineering at the University of California from 1902 to 1903 before becoming a professor of civil engineering and irrigation engineering at the University of Nevada in Reno from 1903 until 1917. In 1917 he returned to Berkeley where he worked until his retirement. Etcheverry was also a c...