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Film strip of Boulder City or Hoover Dam construction, image 016: photographic print

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Date

1930 (year approximate) to 1939 (year approximate)

Description

This photograph has three images. The first one (0272_0066) reads, "High and low level (x) is location of control gates. When completed - 380 ft. high - 85 ft. diameter at base - cylinder gates, at base, and 150 ft. higher. Steel and concrete bridges connect towers to the dam control house on each tower to operate gates - weighting half million pounds." The second one (0272_0067) reads, "Babcock and Wilcox Plant - 'Home of 30' pipe' - Being unable to transport large pipe by rail - it was necessary to build an onsite plant 1 1%2 mi. from dam." The third image (0272_0068) has a handwritten inscription that reads, "Lowering first section of 50 ton pipe to 80' penstocks leading from intake towers."

Digital ID

pho030907

Physical Identifier

0272_0066; 0272_0067; 0272_0068
Details

Citation

pho030907. Barbara and John Kizziar Photograph Collection, approximately 1986-1992. PH-00272. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1zg6gj9z

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Digital Provenance

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

Language

English

Geographic Coordinate

36.01609, -114.73804; 35.97859, -114.83249

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

Format

image/tiff