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Guide to the Chris Wheeler Photographs Collection

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Title Guide to the Chris Wheeler Photographs Collection
 
Subject Bridges--Oregon--Photographs.
Dams--Oregon--Photographs.
Irrigation--Oregon--Deschutes County--Photographs.
Irrigation--Oregon--Klamath
County--Photographs.
Irrigation--Oregon--Umatilla County--Photographs.
Irrigation flumes and
canals--Oregon--Photographs.
Reservoirs--Oregon--Photographs.
Rivers--Oregon--Photographs.
Voyages and
travels--Columbia River--Photographs.
Voyages and travels
--Idaho--Snake River Valley--Photographs.
Oregon
Photographs
Water
and Water Rights
 
Description This collection contains photographs collected and possibly taken by Chris L. Wheeler (b. 1927), State Engineer of Oregon from 1962-1975. The bulk of the photographs depict the Tumalo Irrigation Project in Deschutes County, Or. in 1913-1915. Other photographs, color slides, and photograph albums depict other state and private irrigation efforts in Oregon, circa 1910-1925, and dams and reservoirs in Oregon from 1950-1967.
 
Publisher Oregon Historical Society,
Research Library
 
Date circa
1910-1967
 
Type collection
 
Identifier http://nwda-db.orbiscascade.org/findaid/ark:/80444/xv13017
 
Language English
 
Coverage circa
1910-1967
 
Institute of Museum and Library Services National Endowment for the Humanities Greater Western Library Alliance