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210 photos and 1 illustration tagged dams, from 13 members of Flickr Commons.

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• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 87 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 75 photos & illustrations
• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 22 photos & illustrations
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 9 photos & illustrations
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections 4 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 3 photos & illustrations
• Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County 3 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• New York Public Library 2 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration
• UA Archives | Upper Arlington History 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Men and women in buses and cars visiting a reservoir in Elan Valley

from Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales

• TinTrunk said:

  Splendid charabancs! Hope you don't mind - I added a tag.

Storage Dam, also known as Griggs Dam, 1918

from UA Archives | Upper Arlington History

• Brittany J said:

  still looks exactly the same! =)

• UA Archives | Upper Arlington History said:

  True! Perhaps a few more houses in the background now ;)

• Gordon Keith Originals said:

  Are we looking at the Dam-Tender house?

[Men working on telephone lines, probably near a TVA dam hydroelectric plant] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 5 older comments, and then…
• Rob Lee said:

  I don't think that is code

• perfgeek said:

  Looks more like telegraph lines to me :)

• semicolon835 said:

  Having worked on poles and lines like this, - these are not power lines. They could be telegraph but most likely good old telephone open wire lines. They could be control lines for the power plant but I doubt it. There is a larger cable attached to the pole below the open wire, most likely phone cable added to increase capacity but also sometimes used by the rail road.

• Jonathan Stiles said:

  They are on-line.

• Brock Meeks said:

  Ummm... let's see, the title says "telephone lines," now, I'm just saying, but that seems like a pretty good clue to me as to what these are.