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Explosion
Explosion
Explosion

Explosion

Dateca. 1935
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions3 1/16 × 4 1/4 in. (7.8 × 10.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Bonnie Holten
Object numberPA2022.030.092
DescriptionPlumes of smoke rise over a mountainside after an explosion to clear rock for a farm to market road from Las Vegas, New Mexico, to the Conchas Dam. A dirt road with wheel tracks leads from the foreground toward the explosion site. The road construction is part of a project with the New Deal.
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