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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
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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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Visitors to project are intrigued by the multiplicity of dish pans used as reflectors, which are scattered all over the project where night work takes place. This is the crew that installs them: 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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High scalers perched on bench 1000 feet above river prepare anchorages from which workmen will be suspended by ropes in scaling canyon walls for penstock tunnel adits: photographic print, 1932 August 22
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 of dedication ceremonies by the Elks' Lodge on the bicentennial of George Washington's birth. A flag pole was erected and ceremonies held at canyon rim near the dam-site: photographic print, 1932 February 22
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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Looking across river from Arizona side at upper portals of diversion tunnels Number 1 and 2. Truck bridge in foreground has been partially washed out: photographic print, 1932 February 10
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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Portion of gravel pits on Arizona side of the river, 11 miles above dam-site. Hills in background are across the river in Nevada, 5 miles away: photographic print, 1932 January 16
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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"Bechtel, What a Party!" Bechtel News newsletter for Steve Bechtel Jr.'s celebration of the Bechtel Corporation 90th anniversary, 1988 October
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Collection Number: MS-00955
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
Box/Folder: Flat File 03 (MISSING)
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
Box/Folder: Flat File 03 (MISSING)
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Nevada powerhouse, showing the reinforcing and walls around the penstock openings. Pumpcrete machine is in the butterfly valve gallery between the rock abutment and the turbine room: photographic print, 1934 October 30
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 02
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 02
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