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Box 01, LLB, 3, SCA Main Stacks, Standard Shelf [Aisle: 8, Section: 4, Shelf: 1], MS--00646, William R. Eadington Professional Papers

Construction of Hoover Dam Project

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Collection Number: PH-00123
Collection Name: Ray Cutright Collection of Winthrop A. Davis Photographs
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Rock formations in Colorado River area: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1935
Canyons and cliffs in Colorado River area: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1935
Broken rock in Colorado River area: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1935
Proposed dam site in Black Canyon: photographic print and slide , approximately 1930 to 1932
Gauging station on Arizona side of dam site: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
Arizona side, gauging station for river depth: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
Cutting a road about three miles above dam site: photographic print and negative, approximately 1930 to 1932
Blowing dynamite to cut road about three miles from dam site: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
Cutting a road about three miles above dam site with squatter's camp, Ragtown, Nevada, in the background: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
R.G. LeTourneau contractors cutting road to dam with a carryall "earth mover": photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
Power shovel building road to the dam site: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
R.G. LeTourneau equipment building the road to the dam site: photographic print and negative, approximately 1930 to 1932
Power shovel cutting lowest road to the diversion tunnels: photographic print and negative, approximately 1930 to 1932
Close up of power shovel cutting lowest road to the diversion tunnels: photographic print and negative, approximately 1930 to 1932
Gravel washing plant on Nevada side: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
Close up of gravel washing plant: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
Bridge across the Colorado river to gravel pit, Nevada to Arizona side, approximately ten miles up from the dam: photographic print, negative, and slide , approximately 1930 to 1932
Looking down at mixing plant location near dam site: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
Building one of the cement upper mixing plants: photographic print and negative , approximately 1930 to 1932
Water tanks for upper batch cement plant: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
Water pumps for upper batch cement plant: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
Pump used to get water to upper batch plant: photographic print and negative, approximately 1930 to 1932
Extension of water pipe to upper batch plant: photographic print and negative, approximately 1930 to 1932
Lower cement mixing plant: photographic print and negative, approximately 1930 to 1932
Pump station at lower batch plant: photographic print and negative, approximately 1930 to 1932
Pump station at lower batch plant: photographic print and negative, approximately 1930 to 1932
Control room for cement mixing plant: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
Interior of water treatment plant in Boulder City, Nevada: photographic print and negative, approximately 1930 to 1935
Railroad going to the dam site: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1934
Truck delivery of dynamite and blasting powder: photographic print and negative, approximately 1930 to 1934
Train and railcars at the end of track: photographic print and negative, 1931
Trains dumping debris into railroad cars: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1932
Bridge in the lower canyon below diversion tunnels: photographic print, approximately 1931 to 1932
Blasting rock upstream of dam site: photographic print, approximately 1931 to 1932
Close up of suspension footbridge across Colorado River: photographic print and negative, 1931
Blasting rock at dam site before cofferdam was built: photographic print and negative, approximately 1931 to 1932
Blasting rock to put anchors in place, cameraman on foreground: photographic print and negative, approximately 1931 to 1932
Blasting rock at noon to put anchors in place, cameraman in foreground: photographic print and negative, approximately 1931 to 1932
Blasting rock with overhead cables in view: photographic print, approximately 1931 to 1932
View of Black Canyon during dam construction: photographic print, approximately 1931 to 1932
Colorado River before construction of diversion tunnels: photographic print, approximately 1931 to 1932
Downstream dumps for tunnel debris: photographic print and negative, approximately 1931 to 1932
Looking upstream from Nevada side before cofferdams were built: photographic print, approximately 1931 to 1932
Construction of cofferdam: photographic print and negative, approximately 1931 to 1932
Construction of cofferdam, fill for cofferdam is visible: photographic print, 1932
Looking downstream at cofferdam construction and diversion tunnels: photographic print, approximately 1932 to 1933
Cofferdam, less than a half mile from dam site: photographic print, 1932
Looking upstream at cofferdam and diversion tunnel from Nevada side: photographic print, approximately 1932
View of cofferdam and diversion tunnel at the bottom of canyon basin: photographic print, approximately 1932
Colorado River drying up after cofferdam was built: photographic print, approximately 1932

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