346 •(UPSTATE NEW YORK POWER)
An album documenting construction of the Amsterdam, New York Steam Station with approximately 40 photographs.
The series of precise and detailed images show the building rising with a steel beams, and also includes interior shots with workers and the massive equipment used to generate steam power. Amsterdam, developed on both sides of the Mohawk River, was then a major industrial and commercial center. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 11½x7¾ inches (29.2x19.7 cm.), and the reverse, each with a date and numeric notation, and 6 with the location, in ink, on recto, and a couple with a caption, also in ink, or a credit from a local photographer, on verso; bound with a single two-pronged fastener and a tied cord. 1921

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