Shasta Dam 1942

Shasta Dam under construction 1942
This is one the very earliest color photographs of the dam, a technological feat for the time. The level of detail in the film seems much finer than typical contemporary digital images. The photography was taken in 1942 while Shasta Dam was still very much under construction. This image is from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection, and is available at the link in high resolution. All this work was taking place in the middle of World War II. It’s fascinating to see. That was a lot of concrete! It was an ambitious project. Not the same angle, and not the same level of detail, but it looks like this 68 years later:
Shasta Dam under construction 1942

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