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Water crashes over the Arizona spillway from a filled Lake Mead basin as seen from a lookout above the dam, looking west towards the Nevada side at Hoover Dam, Arizona: photographic slide

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Date

1983-08

Description

This series of photographs documents the historic water overflow at Hoover Dam as seen from the Arizona side of the dam. Taken in August of 1983, this overflow marked the first time the spillways were used during a flood. After initially being filled, the spillways were tested once in August of 1941.

Digital ID

PH_00438_100
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    Citation

    PH_00438_100. UNLV Libraries Collection of 1983 Hoover Dam Overflow Photographs, 1983 August. PH-00438. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1959gc9v

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    This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. Copyright is owned by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Please see the UNLV Libraries Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.

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    Digital Provenance

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

    Date Digitized

    2021-08-23

    Extent

    96365717

    Geographic Coordinate

    36.01609, -114.73804

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

    Format

    image/tiff