Title(s)

Gezicht op Bowman Dam in North Bloomfield, Californië
Bowman (Main) Dam, North Bloomfield Company (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-962-6

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Above sea level, 5,500 feet; height above bed of cañon, 98 feet; length on top, 420 feet; thickness at bottom, 167 feet; contains 55,000 cubic yards of stone;/ capacity of reservoir, 907,000,000 cubic feet, or 410,000 twenty-four-hour inches, or sufficient to supply San Francisco for ten years; water brought by/ ditch to mines, distant 45 miles; average yearly rainfall at dam, 65 inches.’

Artist

• maker: Britton & Rey (mentioned on object)

Place

North Bloomfield

Dating

c. 1885 - in or before 1890

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 112 mm × width 184 mm

What

• dammed-up lake

Where

• North Bloomfield

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Ninth Annual Report of the State Mineralogist, for the Year Ending December 1, 1889 (RP-F-2001-7-962)