There are more than two and a half million dams in the United States, from the massive federal projects built between the 1930s and the 1970s such as Hoover Dam or the Grand Coulee to small, privately owned structures. This compendium of historic images, the newest volume in the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebook series, presents a comprehensive picture of North American dams, always emphasizing the unique design and engineering eomplexities of these impressive structures.

Organizing projects by watershed, Dams showcases over 800 historical and contemporary photographs and illustrations of dams of every scope and size -- stereoscopic photographs, lithographs from travel brochures, picture postcards, newspaper and journal illustrations, and government documentation. The wide range underscores the structural diversity of dams and their ever-changing role in the American landscape and in American society.

This book is a singular reference for architects, designers, engineers, students, and all those fascinated by the monumental presence of dams in America. The accompanying CD-ROM contains high-quality downloadable TIFF files of all the illustrations, several in color. It offers a direct link to the Library's online, searchable catalogs and image files, including the hundreds of thousands of high-resolution photographs, measured drawings, and data files in the Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, and other collections.

Author: Christine Macy

Publisher: W.W. Norton in association with the Library of Congress

Description: Hardcover, 460 pages

ISBN: 978-0-393-73139-2

Price: $85.00

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Product #: 21107028