Fort Peck Dam

Fort Peck Dam (first cover of Life magazine), Margaret Bourke-White, 1936 Ritual Branch (abstraction), Minor White, 1958 (or any work by Minor White) London Child (fantasy), Bill Brandt, 1955 (or any work by Bill Brandt)... 

Fine, L., Remington, J.A. (2003). JohnR. Hardin. The Corps of Engineers Construction in the United States. US Army Washington DC. P Hardin, J.R. (1937). Fort Peck Dam spillway. The Military Engineer 29( /2) 24-28. 

Larkin, T.B. (1937). Closing the Fort Peck Dam. Civil Engineering 7(9) 605-608. http //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas B. LarkinP... 

He became then chief of the Soil Section, US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg MS. In 1933 he was transferred to Fort Peck MT, responsible for the design and the constmction of Fort Peck Dam, then by some standards the largest earth dam worldwide. 

Residual Strength of Liquefied Soils, Fig. 5 Failed upstream slope of Fort Peck Dam on September 22,1938 (Photo www.fortpeckdam.com)... 

Larkin had a two-fold career, as member of the US Army, and also as successful civil engineer. In the latter field he was intimately connected with the Fort Peck Project. It was in the mid-1930s record-breaking in its proportions, namely a dam with 7x10 m hydraulieally plaeed earthfill, and the peeuliar structure of the basic shale formation through which the diversion tunnels and the spillway were built, as described in the 1935 paper. The main purpose of this projeet was to improve the Missouri River for navigation from Sioux City lA to St. Louis MO, but it had and still has also functions in flood control, and was extensively used for irrigation purposes. 

Anonymous (1940). Lieut. Col. T.B. Larkin. Engineering News-Record 125(Jul.ll) 57. P Anonymous (1948). Larkin, Thomas B. Who s who in engineering 6 1155. Lewis New York. Larkin, T.B. (1933). Controlling floods along the Mississippi. Civil Engineering 3(10) 560-564. Larkin, T.B. (1935). Fort Peck Project and Dam. Engineering News-Record 115(Aug.29) 279-282. 

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