131 passages in 131 source items for “Croton Dam”

Croton Dam Strike (1900) — Croton Dam Strike Camp A Photograph from the 1900 labor strike at the New Croton Dam construction site. George Stonebridge Collection. Date: April 1900 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Source: NY Heritage Digital Collections License: Public…

Croton Dam Strike (1900) — Croton Dam Strike Camp B Photograph from the 1900 labor strike at the New Croton Dam construction site. George Stonebridge Collection. Date: April 1900 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Source: NY Heritage Digital Collections License: Public…

Croton Dam Strike (1900) — Croton Dam Strike Camp C Photograph from the 1900 labor strike at the New Croton Dam construction site. George Stonebridge Collection. Date: April 1900 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Source: NY Heritage Digital Collections License: Public…

Croton Dam Strike (1900) — Croton Dam Strike Flag Strikers displaying their flag during the April 1900 labor strike at the New Croton Dam construction site. Italian immigrant workers struck over wages and working conditions. Governor Theodore Roosevelt sent the National…

Croton Dam on the Croton River — Stereoscopic View (1865) Stereoscopic photograph of the Old Croton Dam, showing water flowing over the spillway. From the Robert N. Dennis collection. This is a rare early photograph of the dam that supplied all…

Croton Dam; Croton Aqueduct at Sing Sing (1880) View of the Old Croton Dam and the aqueduct near Sing Sing (now Ossining). From the Emmet Collection. Shows the dam and surrounding landscape nearly 40 years after the aqueduct's completion…

New Croton Dam Spillway Photograph of the New Croton Dam spillway. The S-shaped spillway became internationally known as the 'Croton Profile' — a standard reference for gravity dam design. Date: Modern photograph Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects…

Croton Dam Cross Section Engineering cross-section drawing of the Old Croton Dam showing its masonry gravity construction. The dam was 50 feet high and 270 feet long, creating a 400-acre reservoir that supplied all of New York City…

Croton Dam Wood Engraving — Lossing Extracted wood engraving of the Old Croton Dam area by Benson Lossing, drawn during his firsthand visit in the 1850s. Date: 1866 Location: Croton Dam, Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: engraving Subjects: dam, river, people…

New Croton Dam, 1978 New Croton Dam, 1978 Photographer Jack Boucher captured aerial and ground photographs of the New Croton Dam in 1978. These images are now part of the Historic American Engineering Record collection housed at the Library of…

New Croton Dam, 1978 New Croton Dam, 1978 Photographer Jack Boucher captured aerial and ground photographs of the New Croton Dam in 1978. These images are now part of the Historic American Engineering Record collection housed at the Library of…

New Croton Dam, 1978 New Croton Dam, 1978 Photographer Jack Boucher captured aerial and ground photographs of the New Croton Dam in 1978. These images are now part of the Historic American Engineering Record collection housed at the Library of…

Haer New Croton Dam Spillway HAER survey or historical photograph of the New Croton Dam. Date: c.1969 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects: dam, spillway, bridge, water Source: Wikimedia Commons License: Public domain

New Croton Dam — Aerial View (1931) 1931 aerial photograph of the New Croton Dam. At 297 feet, it was the world's tallest masonry dam at completion in 1906. Date: 1931 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: aerial_photo Subjects…

Haer New Croton Dam Upstream View HAER survey or historical photograph of the New Croton Dam. Date: c.1969 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects: dam, river, bridge, hills, trees Source: Wikimedia Commons License: Public domain

New Croton Dam — HAER Survey Photo Historic American Engineering Record documentation photograph of the New Croton Dam, Croton-on-Hudson. Date: c.1969 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects: dam, reservoir, road, trees, grass Source: Library of Congress…

Haer New Croton Dam Downstream Face HAER survey or historical photograph of the New Croton Dam. Date: c.1969 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects: dam, lake, hills, road, stone structure Source: Wikimedia Commons License: Public domain

New Croton Dam — HAER Survey Photo Historic American Engineering Record documentation photograph of the New Croton Dam, Croton-on-Hudson. Date: c.1969 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects: dam, stone masonry, overflow sections, landscape Source: Library of…

New Croton Dam — HAER Survey Photo Historic American Engineering Record documentation photograph of the New Croton Dam, Croton-on-Hudson. Date: c.1969 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects: dam, stone structure, arches, trees, grass Source: Library of…

New Croton Dam — HAER Survey Photo Historic American Engineering Record documentation photograph of the New Croton Dam, Croton-on-Hudson. Date: c.1969 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: aerial_photo Subjects: dam, reservoir, road, vehicles, trees Source: Library of…

New Croton Dam — HAER Survey Photo Historic American Engineering Record documentation photograph of the New Croton Dam, Croton-on-Hudson. Date: c.1969 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects: dam, reservoir, stone structure, trees, hills Source: Library of…

Aerial View of Croton Dam and Reservoir (1931) Stunning aerial photograph of the New Croton Dam and reservoir by Captain A.W. Stevens, U.S. Army. Shows the massive dam and the reservoir stretching into the distance. The New Croton…

New Croton Dam — HAER Survey Photo Historic American Engineering Record documentation photograph of the New Croton Dam, Croton-on-Hudson. Date: c.1969 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects: dam, spillway, bridge, waterfall, stone wall, river Source: Library…

New Croton Dam — HAER Survey Photo Historic American Engineering Record documentation photograph of the New Croton Dam, Croton-on-Hudson. Date: c.1969 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects: dam, stone wall, railing, trees, grassy area Source: Library…

New Croton Dam 1925B Photograph of the New Croton Dam (1925). From the Westchester County Park Commission Photograph Collection. Date: 1925 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects: dam, waterfall, bridge, spillway Source: Westchester County Archives, Park Commission Collection…

New Croton Dam 1925A Photograph of the New Croton Dam (1925). From the Westchester County Park Commission Photograph Collection. Date: 1925 Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects: dam, bridge, water, spillway, overflow Source: Westchester County Archives, Park Commission…

New Croton Dam — HAER Survey Photo Historic American Engineering Record survey photograph of the New Croton Dam, showing the full masonry face and spillway. Date: 20th century Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY Type: photograph Subjects: dam, spillway, bridge, waterfall, stone…

Old Croton Dam — Hayward Lithograph (1842) Lithograph by G. Hayward showing water cascading over the Old Croton Dam spillway, drawn for D.T. Valentine. The Old Croton Dam (1837-1842) was an engineering marvel — a masonry gravity dam 50 feet…

Entrance to the Croton Dam — F.B. Tower (1843) Tower's plate showing the entrance and gate house of the Old Croton Dam. The dam's masonry gate house controlled the flow of water into the aqueduct tunnel that carried…

New Croton Dam, circa 1906 New Croton Dam, circa 1906 This post features a historical postcard depicting the nearly completed New Croton Dam, published by William Terhune, "Ossining on Hudson," N.Y., circa 1906. The postcard was sent from Ossining…