Contract No. 49, Excavating Diversion Channels, Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Dana, Hardwick, Greenwich, looking south at bridge, middle-east channel, Hardwick, Mass., May 20, 1936

Contract No. 49, Excavating Diversion Channels, Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Dana, Hardwick, Greenwich, looking south at bridge, middle-east channel, Hardwick, Mass., May 20, 1936

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Title:
Contract No. 49, Excavating Diversion Channels, Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Dana, Hardwick, Greenwich, looking south at bridge, middle-east channel, Hardwick, Mass., May 20, 1936
Creator:
Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission
Photographer:
Thornquist, Russell C., 1909-1976
Date:
May 20, 1936
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Massachusetts Archives
Collection (local):
Massachusetts. Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission, Quabbin Reservoir / Metropolitan District Commission, Construction Division, Contract Construction Photographs
Subjects:
waterworks
reservoirs (water distribution structures)
construction sites
cranes (equipment)
bridges (built works)
highways
Places:
Massachusetts > Worcester (county) > Hardwick
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 format)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/fj2397625
Terms of Use:
No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Print in album volume MDWSC, Contract 49, Excavation of the Diversion Channels at the Site of Quabbin Reservoir, Volume 1, Reference set
Typed on back of print in Chief Engineer set: Middle-East Branch Channel. Looking southerly at bridge over Middle East Channel on regraded Greenwich to Dana Highway, Route 21. Link belt crane with 70 foot boom and 2 1/3 cubic yd. drag bucket used for channel excavation, in foreground. See photo no. 13.
Notes (acquisition):
Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission; Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
Accession #:
EN4.12/889X.MDWSC.C.0049.0014.Reference
Identifier:
MDWSC_C_0049_0014_REF