Historical Landscape Documentations

Black and white photos of rural landscapes and rivers, capturing historical environmental contexts. A sense of nostalgia and preservation prevails.

Chicopee River at Chicopee Manufacturing Corp. mill pond from south side of river 1/2 mile above dam, drainage area - 713 square miles, flow - 5500 cubic feet per second - 7.7 cubic feet per second per square mile, Chicopee, Mass., 4:40 PM, Apr. 5, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Ware River, meadows 1/4 mile above Old Furnace looking northwest from Route #32, drainage area - 137 square miles, flow - 1505 cubic feet per second - 11.0 cubic feet per second per square mile, Hardwick, Mass., 2:25 PM, Apr. 13, 1934 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Miscellaneous Wood Products - Posts. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Moving Earth on Project 181-1-3. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Shelterbelts: Windbreaks - Oklahoma. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Chicopee River at Chicopee Manufacturing Corp. mill pond from south side of river 1/2 mile above dam, drainage area - 713 square miles, flow - 5500 cubic feet per second - 7.7 cubic feet per second per square mile, Chicopee, Mass., 4:40 PM, Apr. 5, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Major Projects. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Wachusett Reservoir, 10-15-year-old burned over sprout land, Boylston, Mass., Feb. 7, 1903 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry

Muddy Brook from Ware-Palmer Road, drainage area - 19 square miles (some backwater from Ware River), flow - 140 cubic feet per second - 7.4 cubic feet per second per square mile, 3:55 PM, Ware, Mass., Mar. 22, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Major Projects. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Erosion Effect - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Chicopee River, tailwater at hydroelectric station, Palmer Mills Otis Co., drainage area - 633 square miles, flow - 6203 cubic feet per second - 9.8 cubic feet per second per square mile, Palmer, Mass., 2:30 PM, Sep. 18, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, hydroelectric power plants, tailraces

Ware River, at mouth of Prince River, looking northeast, drainage area - 117 square miles flow - 1645 cubic feet per second - 14.1 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 4:20 PM, Sep. 16, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Pratt Brook above Boston and Maine Railroad culvert, looking upstream, Worcester County, Mass., Feb. 3, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions

Ware River, flooded meadows above Smiths Crossing, looking northwest, drainage area - 148 square miles, flow - 1595 cubic feet per second - 11.8 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 11:40 AM, Sep. 18, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Muddy Brook from Ware-Palmer Road, drainage area - 19 square miles (some backwater from Ware River), flow - 140 cubic feet per second - 7.4 cubic feet per second per square mile, 3:55 PM, Ware, Mass., Mar. 22, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

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Flat Rock Brook at Ware Center, looking downstream from Ware-Enfield Road, drainage area - 4 square miles, flow - 27 cubic feet per second - 6.7 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ware, Mass., 4:50 PM, Mar. 21, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Flood Effects - Utah. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Muddy Brook below Town of Ware pumping station, drainage area - 19 square miles, flow - 97 cubic feet per second - 5.1 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ware, Mass., 3:40 PM, Mar. 21, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Ware River, flooded meadows above Smiths Crossing looking northwest, drainage area - 148 square miles, flow - 1680 cubic feet per second - 11.4 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 12:25 PM, Apr. 17, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Forest Fire Control - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Clouds of Smoke. Original caption: Miscellaneous (clouds of smoke).. 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Administrative Sites - Research, Laboratories. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Ware River near degreasing plant of the Barre Wool Combing Co., drainage area - 103 square miles, flow over dam (visible in photo) - 690 cubic feet per second, flow through wheels - 220 cubic feet per second, total 910 cubic feet per second, Barre, Mass., 2:00 PM, Apr. 3, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Ware River, flooded meadows above Smiths Crossing looking northwest, drainage area - 148 square miles, flow - 1680 cubic feet per second - 11.4 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 12:25 PM, Apr. 17, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Floods - Potomac & Shenandoa River Flood, Aerial Photograph.

Chicopee River, Ludlow mill pond, looking north at Ludlow Country Club golf course, drainage area - 686 square miles, flow - 7060 cubic feet per second - 10.3 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ludlow, Mass., 3:30 PM, Apr. 20, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, mill ponds, floods natural events, golf courses

Partially Cleared Fire Lane. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Danforth Brook, above bridge on Hardwick-Gilbertville Road, drainage area - 5 square miles, flow - 144 cubic feet per second - 28.8 cubic feet per second per square mile, Hardwick, Mass., 5:30 PM, Sep. 16, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Pratt Brook above Boston and Maine Railroad culvert, looking upstream, Worcester County, Mass., Feb. 3, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions

Muddy Brook, looking at G.H. Gilbert Manufacturing Co. dam, drainage area - 18 square miles, flow - 92 cubic feet per second - 5.1 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ware, Mass., 3:55 PM, Mar. 21, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

New England Hurricane, 1938. New England Hurricane, 1938

Homesteads - Occupied. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Low lands at mouth of Prince River, flow - 99 cubic feet per second - 7.7 cubic feet per second per square mile, drainage area - 12.9 square miles, Barre, Mass., Mar. 9, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Swift River - looking upstream at outlet channel to diversion tunnel at dam site, flood photo, Mass., Mar. 19, 1936 : Parcel no. 208--, 9:30 AM , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, floods natural events

Pratt Brook at North Brookfield-Barre Plains Road, drainage area - 8 square miles, flow - 35 cubic feet per second - 4.4 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 11:30 AM, Mar. 22, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, road bridges, floods natural events

undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports

Erosion Effect - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Washout on Poole Street looking easterly, showing new channel of Chicopee River, Ludlow, Mass., Oct. 17, 1938 , New England Hurricane, 1938, waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, roads, residential structures

Burned Over Areas - Old Burns. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Artificial Regeneration - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Artificial Regeneration - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Prince River, Panaccione Brothers dam, flow - 37 cubic feet per second, 7.7 cubic feet per second per square mile, drainage area - 4.8 square miles, Barre, Mass., Mar. 9, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

This year (1937) there are floods and heavy rains in the Dust Bowl. Texas. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas, Floods

Logging on plantation Accaribo.open site with beaten trees on Plantation Accaribo.

Ware River, looking downstream from bridge at Barre Plains, drainage area - 117 square miles, flow 1,010 cubic feet per second - 8.6 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 2:15 PM, Apr. 3, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

New England Hurricane, 1938. New England Hurricane, 1938

Artificial Regeneration - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Results of Dust Storm. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Fort Berthold Agency. 1949-. Photographs

Artificial Regeneration - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Looking downstream at Smiths Crossing (first bridge above Gilbertville), drainage area - 149 square miles, flow - 1680 cubic feet per second - 11.3 cubic feet per second per square mile, Gilbertville, Hardwick, Mass., 12:15 PM, Apr. 17, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Water Use: Electricity - Indiana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Looking downstream at Smiths Crossing (first bridge above Gilbertville), drainage area - 149 square miles, flow - 1680 cubic feet per second - 11.3 cubic feet per second per square mile, Gilbertville, Hardwick, Mass., 12:15 PM, Apr. 17, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

General view along Administration Road, for vista clearing, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., Sept. 15, 1941 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, general views, landscape architecture discipline

Tree Nurseries: General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Moving Earth on Project 181-1-3. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Administrative Site - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Timber Management: Types - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Administrative Sites - Rangers Stations. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Administrative Site - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

New England Hurricane, 1938. New England Hurricane, 1938

Ware Mills, Otis Co. dam, drainage area - 168 square miles, flow - 1360 cubic feet per second over dam, 400 cubic feet per second through wheels, total - 1760 cubic feet per second - 10.5 cubic feet per second per square mile, Ware, Mass., 10:20 AM, Apr. 17, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

Floods 1955 , Floods, Streets, Streams, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

River at the dam , Rivers, Dams, Floods. Lawrence

General view along Administration Road, for vista clearing, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., Sept. 15, 1941 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, general views, landscape architecture discipline

Ware River, looking downstream from bridge at Barre Plains, drainage area - 117 square miles, flow 1,010 cubic feet per second - 8.6 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 2:15 PM, Apr. 3, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events

Greenhouses, Coldframes - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

River at the dam , Rivers, Dams, Floods. Lawrence

Erosion Effect - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Ware River at the Wheelwright dam, Hardwick, Mass., 12:35 PM, Mar. 12, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, dams hydraulic structures

Major Project (Dams and Reservoirs Riprap). 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Tree Nurseries: Improvements. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Homesteads - Occupied. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

1 Mile Creek Showing Results of Flood Project 3A. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Erosion Effect - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

General view along Administration Road, for vista clearing, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., Sept. 15, 1941 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, general views, landscape architecture discipline

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Erosion Effect - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

New England Hurricane, 1938. New England Hurricane, 1938

Fish Planting - Colorado. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Flood Effects - Pennsylvania. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Foresters at Work - Colorado. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Forest Insects - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Wachusett Reservoir, 10-15-year-old burned over sprout land, Boylston, Mass., Feb. 7, 1903 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry

Towns & Cities - Occupied. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Wachusett Reservoir, 10-15-year-old burned over sprout land, Boylston, Mass., Feb. 7, 1903 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry

R W Park , Lakes & ponds, Parks, Recreation

Flood-war damage 1925, Middle East

Timber Stand Improvement - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Ruins of the Great Chelsea Fire , Fires, Ruins. Chelsea Public Library Archive Collection

Forest Nursery. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1964-. Photographs

Chicopee River, A.G. Spalding and Brothers, tailrace #2 Unit, head-canal to river - 21.8ft., drainage area - 717 square miles, flow in river (visible in photo) - 4450 cubic feet per second, through Dwight Canal - 1000 cubic feet per second, total - 5450 cubic feet per second, Chicopee, Mass., 1:45 PM, Apr. 6, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, tailraces, floods natural events, factories structures

Erosion Effect - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Range Improvement - Seeding - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

General view along Administration Road, for vista clearing, Quabbin Reservoir, Mass., Sept. 15, 1941 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, general views, landscape architecture discipline

Beaver Brook below dike, Ware, Mass., 8:20 PM, Jul. 7, 1936 , waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions

Administrative Sites - Rangers Stations. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Ware River, Powder Mill dam, Barre Wool Combing Co., drainage area - 100 square miles, flow - 1160 cubic feet per second - 11.6 cubic feet per second per square mile, Barre, Mass., 10:40 AM, Sep. 18, 1933 , waterworks, real estate, rivers, watershed sanitary conditions, dams hydraulic structures, floods natural events

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