Size & Finish

14 x 11 -- Black & White -- $200.00 14 x 11 -- Sepia -- $250.00 20 x 16 -- Black & White -- $300.00 20 x 16 -- Sepia -- $350.00

In the wake of the devastation by a severe drought in 1890, Phoenix fathers and central Arizona farming interests decided that a water storage system was the only plausible answer to their woes. They joined ranks and founded the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association, which immediately petitioned the federal government to construct a dam on the Salt River, under the auspices of the National Reclamation Act of 1902.

After considerable political haggling and a full litany of unforeseen construction problems, the Roosevelt Dam was finally dedicated on March 18, 1911, by its namesake, President Theodore Roosevelt, who sagely predicted that Phoenix would forthwith transform into "one of the richest agricultural areas in the world."
- Michael Goldwater