Album with 87 photographs depicting construction of the Ashokan reservoir, which supplies water to New York City, with multiple views of excavation machinery, compressors, special aqueduct and screen chamber, the spillway, tunnels, and picturesque scenes of local buildings.
New York: circa 1912-1915.
Price: $3,000.00
About the item
87 silver prints, the images measuring 3 x 4-1/2 to 4-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches, mounted recto and verso on black sheets, most of the prints with a caption in the negative. Oblong 4to. In a black "Snapshots" album. Some wear, photos fine.
Item #308235
The NYC watershed consists of 19 upstate reservoirs and 3 controlled lakes that cover 1,900 square miles in the Catskill Mountains. The Ashokan Reservoir was finished in 1915.
1. Ulster & Delaware Railroad Station
2. Steam shovels
3. Town with workers (uncaptioned)
4. 3 uncaptioned shots of equipment
5. The Ashokan National Bank Building, with an advertisement for the Oneonta Central New York Fair Sept. 1912 on side of building.
6. Traction Engine; Negro Camp House & View from the Main Office towards the Opera House
7. The Hospital and Nurse Cottage
8. Italian Camp View; Syphon & Machine and Millwright Shop
9. The Commissary
10. Beaver Hill Club House; Waste Channel & "Dig"
11. Browns Farm House
12. View from the Beaverkill Clubhouse towards Maindam; well driller & View from McCleelan Tower
13. Office of Winston and Co Contractors
14. Workers; Cable Tower & Italian Camp View
15. McClellan Memorial Tower and Reservator (?)
16. Steam Shovel; Fire House & Parade on horseback
17. View from the Main Dam of Reservoir Site
18. View from Maindam seen from Esopos Creek; Blacksmith Shop & American Camp Street View
19. Railway tracks
20. Railroad Engine; Italian Camp View & View of Maindam
21. East Deich
22. Street View around Boardinghouse; Cornwal and Dam & Camp Scene
23. Main dam, Towers and Railroad
24. American Camp Street View, Workers in wagon & Train
25. West Deich
26. Bucyrus shovel; Ditch & View of Maindam
27. Compressor
28. Steam Shovel; Boardinghouse & American Camp View
29. Special Aequduct
30. Crusher; Police Station & Railroad
31. Screen Chamber
32. City Engineers Office; Railroad & Deich work
33. Well driller blast and steam shovel
34. Italian Camp House; Machinery of Cable Tower & Steam shovel at work
35. Pressure aqueduct lower gate chamber
36. Italian schoolhouse; Stump puller & Italian Camp View
37. Steam shovel
38. Post Office; Portal of water channel & large valves
39. View of main dam seen from Esopos Creek
40. The Keeper; Men in tunnel & Board of Water Supply Office
41. Upper Gate Chamber
42. American Camp House; View of Maindam; View towards Dam showing Mill Compressor and Crusher & View towards Crusher and Dam
43. View of Spillway
44. American Camp Street View; Bull Pen & Round House
45. Panoramic postcard of Ashokan Dams, Browning Station, NY (torn in half).
