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[Wagon Fill]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 311) is of a dirt road with tire tracks. The second image (numbered 312) is of men spraying water on loose dirt, with horses and wagons in the distance. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Looking North over Wagon Fill from Sta. 25" taken on 05-17-27, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Looking north from Sta. 29 over Wagon Fill" taken on 06-06-27.
Date: 1927
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Spillway Excavation]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 27) is of workers with a wagon removing large rocks from a shallow pit. The second image (numbered 53) is of a pit with large rocks. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Removing Rock from Spillway Exc." taken on 10-17-24, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Erie Shovel in S.E. Corner of Spillway Exc." taken on 11-10-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Unloading Dragline and Garza Dam North]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 24) is of various machinery being unloaded from railroad cars; a horse-drawn wagon is near the railroad tracks. The second image (numbered 20) is of horses hitched to a mechanism in a field. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Unloading Bucyrus Class 24 Dragline" and (bottom) "Garza Dam North from South Bank" both taken 10-17-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Outlet Conduits]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 70) is of a small crane excavating a shallow trench. The second image (numbered 75) is of a row of horse-drawn wagons with two small cranes in a shallow trench. Handwritten text on the images identify them both as "Garza Dam Excavating for Outlet Conduits," taken 11-17-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Excavations]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 281) is of a crane with horse-drawn wagons on the dirt slope in the background. The second image (numbered 288) is of a large crane excavating a trench in a dirt slope. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam P. & H. Shovel and Elevating Grader (in distance) Excavating Earth for Blanket on Upstr. Slope Stas. 15 to 30 NW from Sta. 11" taken on 08-12-26, and (bottom)… more
Date: 1926
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Gravel Stripping]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 143) is of a pit with piles of dirt and several horse-drawn wagons being loaded with gravel. The second image (numbered 144) is of piles of dirt with wagons and men in the distance. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Stripping Earth from Stockard Gravel Pit" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Stripping and Loading Gravel for Concrete," both taken on 04-15-25.
Date: 1925
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Clay Puddling and Wagon Fill]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 315) is of men fixing large cracks in a dirt surface. The second image is of a man with three horses and a wagon. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Puddling Clay into Cracks after Slide" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Placing Wagon Fill at Elev. 530 Sta. 18 North," both taken on 06-28-27.
Date: 1927
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Riprap and Gravel]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 209) is of several wagons at the top of a slope covered in rocks, next to a lake. The second image (numbered 218) is of wagons at the top of a dirt slope above a lake. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Placing Riprap on Upstream Slope, Water Elev. 491.2" taken on 09-16-25, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Sloping and Placing Gravel Blanket for Riprap" taken on 11-24-2… more
Date: 1925
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Pile Driver]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 62) is of a tall steel structure on the edge of a trench with men standing next to it. The second image (numbered 63) is of a steel structure with a horse-drawn wagon and lumber on the ground nearby. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Beginning to Drive Steel Sheet Piling Cut-Off" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Pile Driver for Steel Sheet Piling N. Bank of River," bo… more
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Spillway Excavation]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 25) is of two horse-drawn wagons and a crane excavating a pit. The second image (numbered 26) is of a shallow pit with men working amongst piles of dirt. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Excavating for North End of Spillway" and (bottom) "Garza Dam Looking North along Spillway Excavation," both taken on 10-17-24.
Date: 1924
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Spillway Excavation]

Description: Photographs taken during the construction of Garza Dam in Dallas County, Texas. The first image (numbered 111) is of a line of horse-drawn wagons next to a pile of large rocks. The second image (numbered 124) is of several cranes and wagons excavating rocky ground. Handwritten text on the images identify them as: (top) "Garza Dam Spillway Excavation Looking North" taken on 02-06-25, and (bottom) "Garza Dam Erie Shovels on Spillway Excavation" taken on 02-26-25.
Date: 1925
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

Combined Swingletree and Evener.

Description: Patent, including illustrations, for improvements to combined swingletrees and eveners, tools used to equalize strain between a draft animal and vehicle, "which is easily and simply constructed, inexpensive to manufacture, and one which will be very efficient in operation" (lines 22-25).
Date: March 16, 1920
Creator: White, Floyd N.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Horse drawn cart and car]

Description: Photograph of a city street scene taken from a rooftop. A horse drawn cart and automobile travel along the same street while a man and woman cross the street.
Date: [1929..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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