Workers posing on steel sheet piling cell, intake lagoon, Detroit water supply system

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Workers posing on steel sheet piling cell, intake lagoon, Detroit water supply system
Description:
View of workers posing on steel piling cell at entrance of intake lagoon for the Detroit water supply system. Printed on front: "City of Detroit. Department of Water Supply. Intake system for additional supply. Intake lagoon. Contract RC-9. Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Co., contractors. Photo no. 31. Date: 8-5-30. Photo by Manning Brothers." Typed on back: "Steel sheet piling cell on downstream side of lagoon entrance. Note anchorage for ice boom at rear corner on right. Piles have not been driven to final grade."
Details
Resource ID:
bh015580
Creator:
Manning Brothers
Subject:
Steel piling--Michigan--Detroit
Construction workers--Michigan--Detroit
Intakes (Hydraulic engineering)--Michigan--Detroit
Detroit (Mich.). Department of Water Supply
Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
Photographic prints
Date Issued:
1930-08-05
Format:
1 photographic print mounted on fabric ; 9.5 x 7.5 in.
Member of:
Burton Historical Collection
Filing Location:
MS/Detroit Archives. Water Board. Bureau of River Tunnels. Intake system, 2 of 3, 1:2
Rights:
Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.