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Detail image of side-wall "jumbo" used in placing 3-foot thick lining in diversion tunnels. Side wings are jacked into place, and concrete is poured through ports by a traveling crane and 2 yard buckets: photographic print, 1932 April 18
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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First "jumbo" for pouring concrete lining in top or arch section of tunnels was erected on "beach" in front of tunnel Number 2 and transported across river in sections by cableway: photographic print, 1932 May 20
Archival Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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View showing forms set for first side-wall pour in upper portal of tunnel Number 3. Form is 80-feet long and consists of four 20-foot sections bolted together. Note size of man in upper right: photographic print, 1932 April 29
Archival Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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Excavation for benches for movable cableway towers being carried on, near Lookout Point: photographic print, 1932 August 14
Archival Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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Workmen loading holes with dynamite, in preparation for blast on cableway bench excavation: photographic print, 1932 August 15
Archival Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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"Powder-monkeys" load dynamite cartridges with electric primers at isolated points: photographic print, 1932 August 15
Archival Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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Preparing for blast which demolished Lookout Point, to make way for cableway bench excavation: photographic print, 1932 August 14
Archival Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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One of four photographs, forming a panorama of operations being carried on at canyon rim, on Nevada side. Photo was taken from Arizona spillway site. To the left is shown Black Canyon Highway. High level mixing plant will be located behind fill on the road. To the right is shown highway extension road to Nevada spillway. Note shovel boom projecting at former site of Lookout Point: photographic print, 1932 August 12
Archival Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Archival Component
One of four photographs, forming panorama of operations being carried on at canyon rim, on Nevada side. Photo was taken from Arizona spillway site. To the left is shown Black Canyon Highway. High level mixing plant will be located behind fill on the road. To the right is shown highway extension road to Nevada spillway. Note shovel boom projecting at former site of Lookout Point: photographic print, 1932 August 12
Archival Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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Three hundred boxes of dynamite were used in spectacular blast which demolished the old Lookout Point. Photograph taken from the new Lookout Point, on Black Canyon Highway: photographic print, 1932 August 16
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To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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