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vii Illustrations 1. Construction at the Robert Moses Power Dam visitor’s center, September 1958 28 2. Cofferdam C-1 and floating bridge, April 1955 43 3. Bulldozers leveling the base of the Eisenhower Lock 49 4. Earthmover and bulldozer excavating the Eisenhower Lock 51 5. Upstream face of the St. Lawrence Power Dam, September 1957 53 6. Run assembly for turbine unit 30, December 1957 55 7. Long Sault Dam construction, July 1957 57 8. Iroquois Dam construction, May 1957 58 9. Snell Lock walls 62 10. Massena Intake structure 64 11. Hydrographic survey boat 77 12. Concrete buckets are transported to waiting cranes 108 13. Ted Catanzarite in front of his parents’ garage, August 1957 110 14. Neil McKenna, Warren Scofield, and Harvey Day at the Eisenhower Lock site 113 15. Long Sault Dam, March 1958 115 16. Gantry crane at the main power dam 119 17. Caisson being lowered into position at the Long Sault Dam, March 1958 138 18. St. Lawrence Power Dam, October 1956 141 19. St. Lawrence Power Dam from the American side, November 1956 145 20. St. Lawrence Power Dam, completed 146 21. Aerial view of the Long Sault Dam, October 1957 148 viii   |   Illustrations 22. Eisenhower Lock under construction, May 1957 167 23. Construction at Long Sault Dam, February 1958 181 24. Concrete batch plant at Eisenhower Lock 205 25. Harry Truman views murals at the main power dam visitor’s center 214 26. Massena Toastmasters Club 220 27. Melba and Ray Singleton 223 28. Jim and Phyllis Cotter 255 29. Coffee party for wives of Uhl, Hall, and Rich engineers 261 30. Joseph and Ann Marmo 280 31. St. Lawrence State Park Recreation Area, May 1959 282 32. Residents of Buckeye Development taking a boat ride through the Seaway and Eisenhower Lock 285 33. Removing cells of Cofferdam C-1, April 1958 290 34. Nixon, Rockefeller, and others arrive at the Eisenhower Lock 313 35. Luminaries gather at the speakers’ stand, Eisenhower Lock 314 36. Nixon on the speakers’ stand at Eisenhower Lock 315 37. Main power dam nears completion in 1958 319 38. Iroquois Lock, June 1958 323 39. Iroquois Dam, August 1958 324 40. The first passenger ships to be lowered by the Eisenhower Lock 327 map 1. Map of Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway project xx ...

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