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Postcard of Boulder Canyon, circa early 1930s

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Creator

Creator: Oakes Photo

Date

1928 to 1931

Description

An artist's rendering of Boulder Canyon. Text on front of postcard: "Hoover Dam site, Boulder Canyon, looking downstream." Text on back of postcard: "Work is rapidly progressing on the new Hoover Dam, thirty miles southeast of Las Vegas. This tremendous project will cost the government in excess of $165, 000, 000.00 and will take about eight years to complete. The dam site is where the river disappears in the center of the picture. Arizona is on the left, Nevada on the right. Within a decade, the parched desert lands to the north will be washed by the waters of the largest man-made lake in the Western Hemisphere, impounded by the Hoover Dam, the greatest structure since Cheops."

Digital ID

pho013859

Physical Identifier

0001_0053
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Citation

pho013859. Ferron and Bracken Photograph Collection. PH-00001. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1k35mg56.

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Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

Extent

2268 x 3425 pixels
3.78 x 5.71 inches
23,304,580 bytes

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

Format

image/tiff