View of Chicopee dam

Dublin Core

Title

View of Chicopee dam

Subject

Dams -- Massachusetts -- Chicopee; Belcher and Taylor Agricultural Tool Company; Chicopee River (Mass.); Manufactures -- Massachusetts -- Chicopee

Description

View of the dam in Chicopee Falls. The dam was built in





the 1820s as a power source for burgeoning industries. On the left is





a cluster of buildings which was the Belcher and Taylor Agricultural





Tool Company. After the Civil War they supplied agricultural





implements for the settlement of the American West.

Creator

Gilbert, Russ H.

Publisher

Date

ca. 1919

Relation

Is part of the Russ H. Gilbert photographic collection, 1917-1922. Chicopee History Room, Chicopee Public Library, Chicopee, Mass. http://www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org/

Format

image/jpg

Type

image

Files

Collection

Citation

Gilbert, Russ H., “View of Chicopee dam,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed June 19, 2013, http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/195.

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