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TitleWater spills over the venerable Cheesman Dam in Jefferson County, Colorado. Cheesman is one of the dams that slows and captures water from the South Platte River for use as part of Denver's drinking-water supply. Cheesman Dam, which was named for Walter Scott Cheesman, a Denver druggist, railroad builder, and designer of water infrastructure, was the world's tallest at 221 feet when it was completed in 1905Color ContentcolorCould not render: bf:code Notephysical details: digital, tiff file, color. Applies To: Applies To: all Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographerCheesman was the first reservoir of Denver's mountain storage facilities that helped expand Denver Water's system. Built by immigrant stonemasons, the dam remains, after more than 100 years, the workhorse of the storage system and jewel among the Denver Water utility system's dams. Except for a small finger of the reservoir where fishers are allowed to try their luck, the dam and its vast reservoir are tightly secured and off-limits to human visitors, their boats and camping equipment, and their animalsExtent1 photographProvision ActivityPublication: Colorado 2016 Publication: 2016-06-13 Usage And Access PolicyNo known restrictions on publication.Preferred CitationCredit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.Acquisition SourceDLC Stock Number:LC-DIG-highsm-38809 (original digital file)