William Currie Photograph Album
name: label: Creator
content: Currie, William
label: Former owner
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
label: Former owner
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
place: label: Place
content: Panama Canal (Panama)
label: Place
content: Kentucky
label: Place
content: Panama
label: Place
content: Louisville (Ky.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ranches
label: Topic
content: Sewage disposal
label: Topic
content: Irrigation
label: Topic
content: Canals -- Panama
label: Topic
content: Engineers
label: Topic
content: Civil engineering
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was purchased by the National Museum of American History's Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, now known as the Museum's Division of Work and Industry in 1980.
creator: label: Creator
content: Currie, William
setName: label: See more items in
content: William Currie Photograph Album
abstract: label: Summary
content: William Currie was a civil engineer and photographer who worked during the early twentieth century. The photograph album documents irrigation systems in the western United States, sewage systems in Louisville, Kentucky, and work on the Panama Canal.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The albums were created by William Currie, a civil engineer, but no other information is known about Currie or the acquisition of the collection.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1904-1912
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Work and Industry in 2007.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1043
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This collection is arranged in one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Griffin Brown (intern), August, 2010; supervised by Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The album consists of photographs created and collected by civil engineer William Currie. The photographs document three projects from the first decade of twentieth century. The first project is the construction of irrigation systems in the Far West dating approximately from 1904-1907.  There are also photographs from a project documenting a sewage system for Louisville, Kentucky in 1909-1910.  Lastly, there are photographs of the Panama Canal dating from 1911-1912.

Box one contains forty eight loose photographs from the album and album pages documenting work on irrigation systems in the western United States. Box two includes additional irrigation project photographs and album pages from work on a sewage system in Louisville, Kentucky and work on the Panama Canal. The order created by the donor has been maintained.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: W. P. Stine Panama Canal Papers, A.R. Van Tassell Photograph Albums, Katherine Kingsford Panama Canal Photograph Album, John Frances Little Panama Canal Scrapbook.