Talk:Redridge Steel Dam

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[edit] Historic Landmark

Thank you Dcclark for enhancing this article... do you by chance have a cite for the 1985 date? I have found it hard to find cites for Michigan landmarks as the ASCE (which I think bestows them) chapter site is not very searchable... so if you have a way, I have some other articles that could benefit. Thanks! ++Lar: t/c 13:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Glad to have helped. The references you're looking for are indeed very hard to find! The year citation is based on this photo, which I took: The Redridge ASCE Plaque. It gives only the year. Not exactly sure how to cite "a metal plate at the location," though. -- dcclark (talk) 16:03, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Smile, give it a biblio entry and call "rock" the publisher? I dunno... Oh my goodness... any chance you would make that piccie available on WP?? or, assuming you go to "da Tech" (me: BSCS '83), that you could convince Dean Woodbeck to make his shot (linked to on the article page) of the back side available? Explaining steel dams is a lot easier if you can show the non water (downstream) side... (see also this pic which I am trying to get permission for: http://www.lib.rpi.edu/cgi-bin/bulletin.pl?vol=30&iss=1x&pg=78&img=full from RPI) it shows the bracing and stuff of a Steel dam fairly clearly...++Lar: t/c 16:30, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Heh, I don't know either. It's amusing how we have a hundred different ways to cite print sources, but objects in the physical world are hard to deal with! I will gladly make that pic available on WP, but I'm not sure what the point would be. I also have this image: Redridge downstream in winter. It's a bit blurry and dark, but it does show the downstream side of the image. Incidentally, although I used to be at Tech (BMath '04), Dean Woodbeck isn't there any more (took a job somewhere in NY). You and I would be equally effective in bugging him. :) -- dcclark (talk) 17:20, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

I did cite the plaque image in the main article... With a bit of a lighten and a good cropping to remove some of the foreground stream that downstream image would be perfect. Is that the largest resolution you have? LMK if you need help uploading/tagging (I suggest to Commons if you're willing to freelicense it. I use GFDL and CCSA for my images uploaded there. For example this one: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Lego_Spongebob_2006_sets.jpg )... if you upload the original I would be happy to crop it, or you could? Cheers! (PS I've been to Waterloo, Ontario... There's a LEGO store there!) PPS see also the Quincy Mine article, in looking for stuff about stamp mills I found that HAER has a bazillion pages and piccies and drawings related to it) ++Lar: t/c 17:48, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I see the ref -- nice. I just uploaded a cropped and lightened version of the image: [1]. Feel free to tweak it if you want. I can also toss up the original 7 megapixel image if you want to try your hand at it instead. Let me know if any of my other images look useful! -- dcclark (talk) 19:04, 14 April 2006 (UTC)