Lester H. Mitchell papers, 1920-1943.

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Lester H. Mitchell papers, 1920-1943.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191914947

The Lester H. Mitchell papers contain a collection of lantern slides with official photographs of the Shoshone Dam Reservoir, Electric Power Plant, and canyon, as well as various dam sites, Glacier National park, Yellowstone National Park, Zion National Park, Boulder Canyon, Bryce Canyon and more.

.45 cubic ft. (1 box)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6959792

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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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...

Mitchell, Lester

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Lester H. Mitchell was an irrigation advisor to the Secretary of the Interior and spent 41 years with the Bureau of Reclamation in the Interior Department. He was project manager of the Yellowstone, Riverton, and Shoshone projects and was responsible for much of the early homestead settlement in those areas. Mitchell also did educational work on water utilization and weed control in the arid west. He was also responsible for making a field survey and report on feasibility and soundness of the ir...