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Kensico reservoir. General view of Kensico dam and reservoir with pool and fountain below dam. Lower Effluent chamber in background. Contract 9. October 25, 1917.

Kensico reservoir. General view of Kensico dam looking west. Contract 9. May 4, 1916.

Kensico reservoir. View of old Kensico dam and portion of reservoir before construction opertions began. Contract 9. October 16, 1908.

Kensico reservoir. View showing excavated V-shaped gorge at east end of dam foundation. Contract 9. March 28, 1913.

Kensico reservoir. View of dam showing expansion-joint in foreground and down-stream face stepped to receive granite facing. Contract 9. October 29, 1914.

Ashokan Reservoir. View of Olive Bridge dam under construction. Note cyclopean masonry in body of dam and concrete blocks on face. Contract 3. September 21, 1909.

Kensico reservoir. General view of excavation and foundation for Kensico dam. Cut-off trench being excavated at right. Contract 9. December 31, 1912.

Kensico reservoir. View showing excavation for foundation of Kensico dam in progress. Note wooden flume for controlling water of Bronx river. Contract 9. July 30, 1912.

Kensico reservoir. View of down-stream face of dam showing method of placing concrete with travelling derricks. Contract 9. October 30, 1913.

Kensico reservoir. East pylon, fountain and cascade basin, showing architectural details. Note arrangement of granite facing. Contract 9. September 20, 1917.

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1918
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New York (N.Y.). Water Supply Board, Compiler
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Quarrying granite for Mormon Temple.19th century US expeditions surveys.

Le Kaire [Cairo] (Citadelle). 1-13. Plan, élévations, coupes et détails de chapiteaux du Divan de Joseph; 14-18. Détails de portes.

Reservoir Square, 6th Ave. and 41st St.

Bridges. Ashokan reservoir. ... Contract 49. April 28, 1914.

Wallkill pressure tunnel. Side-wall and arch forms in place ready for concrete, with inclined track to platform on level with top of side-wall. Contract 47. April 11, 1911.

Fayoum [Fayyûm]. 1-13. Plans, élévation, coupes et détails d'un temple égyptien, situé vers l'extrémité occidentale du lac appelé Birket el-Qeroun [Birket Qarun, or Lake Moeris]; 14-18. Plans et détails de plusieurs antiquités des environs.

Île de Philæ. 1-27. Détails de coeffures symboliques; 28.29. Plan et élévation d'un petit portique a l'est du Grand Temple; 30-33. Plan, élévation, coupe et vue perspective d'une construction romaine.

Babylone. Ruines de Birs-Nemroud. (Vue et détails.)

Inscriptions on the granite rocks in Sinai

Camps. Catskill aqueduct. ... Contract 25. July 26, 1909.

All that glitters is not gold - Public domain sheet music scan

Ashokan Lower gate-chamber, with electrically-driven valves, vertical genartor operated by water turbine and overhead traveling crane. Contracts 31, 42, 43 and 56. August 31, 1917.

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water supply new york state new york science industry and business library general collection photographs of the catskill water supply system in process of construction kensico reservoir east pylon cascade basin high resolution new york n y board of water supply compiler kensico reservoir pylon fountain cascade basin details arrangement granite contract catskill construction new york public library