1946 Press Photo Spillway on the Missouri river at Montana's Fort Peck dam

This "insurance" spillway on the Missouri river at northeastern Montana's Fort Beck dam, largest earth fill in the nation, was built by army engineers to accommodate floodwaters in greater volume than anything in the river's record--a volume equal to the

Photo is dated 1946.

Photo measures 9 x 7.25 inches.

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