A collection of prints and negatives documenting construction projects and other activities of Charles Moss Davis (1884-1974), a Fort Worth, Texas civil engineer who worked on survey and engineering projects throughout the West. Moss worked for the Reclamation Bureau (part of the U.S. Geological Survey) and as an independent contractor. He was an engineer for 50 years, and the photographs contained in the collection document locations where he worked which included irrigation canals, the Galveston harbor, railroad bridges using a revolutionary method of slip form construction that he designed, grain mills, concrete homes, and the Williamson-Dickie building in Fort Worth. He pioneered the slip-form concrete technique used in bridges and large industrial buildings. A portion of the collection is devoted to portraits of geological survey team members and of the Davis family, all unidentified. The collection consists of 92 gelatin silver prints and 236 35mm nitrate film negatives.
Materials provided by Special Collections and Archives at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Materials provided by Special Collections and Archives at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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