Cartographic and Audiovisual Records.

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Cartographic and Audiovisual Records.

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Cartographic records, 1904-63 (2,482 items), include plats of townships in Federal irrigation project areas, showing farm units; maps of the United States and western areas, showing irrigation and hydroelectric development, dams, reservoirs, and reclamation projects; and aerial survey film, with indexes, covering western areas. Audiovisual records, 1897-1955 (75,089 items), include photographs of Bureau activities in developing power and irrigation projects in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California; of towns, transportation, agricultural activities, industries, roads, bridges, rivers, floods, drought conditions, and economic and physical results of projects in the Western States, Hawaii, and the Southern States, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee; relating to the development of the engineering progress on dams, reservoirs, canals, tunnels, flumes, pumping plants, and powerplants; and of Civilian Conservation Corps activities at bureau projects, project maps and diagrams, Bureau exhibits and displays, Western Indian culture, national parks, and irrigation in other countries.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6831262

National Archives Library, National Archives Records Administration

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