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Garrett, Theodore Robert, 1898-1980
Theodore Garrett was born November 25, 1898 in Overbrook, Kansas. He went into the United States Army in 1917, but was discharged in 1919 and had to go back to farming at home until the Great Depression. He was working at a railroad company when he got wind of Hoover (Boulder) Dam being constructed in Nevada, so he moved there to find a stable job on January 15, 1931. While he was employed at the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Garrett was a truck driver.
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Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of Interior, naming the Boulder Dam at a ceremony celebrating the beginning of work on the Boulder Canyon Project and the beginning of the construction of Union Pacific Railroad from Boulder Junction (Bracken Junction) to the dam site, 1930 September 17
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Collection Number: PH-00071
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 08 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 08 (Restrictions apply)
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Tyrone Power and Annabella Power visit Boulder Dam, with them are Mr. Marion McKeen (Thompson Trophy Pilot) who flew the Powers to Boulder City, and R. B. Spearman who conducted the party through the powerhouse, 1939 May 26
Archival Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00071
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 10 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 10 (Restrictions apply)
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View from the Nevada utility tower of Boulder Dam, showing the Memorial Day exercises in connection with the unveiling of the plaque commemorating the men who gave their lives in the construction of Boulder Dam: photographic print, 1935 May 30
Archival Collection
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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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View of the open cut portion of the switchyard control circuit tunnel. Shovel is excavating for the switchyard, and the building in the foreground is the power sub-station. The Babcock and Wilcox Company plant can be seen in the extreme background: photographic print, 1935 June 01
Archival Collection
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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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Panorama looking downstream in Black Canyon, taken from the Nevada side, showing the upstream face of Boulder Dam, Arizona and Nevada spillways, intake towers, cableways and general construction: photographic print, 1934 May 12
Archival Collection
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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
Archival Component
Panorama looking downstream in Black Canyon, taken from the Nevada side, showing the upstream face of Boulder Dam, Arizona and Nevada spillways, intake towers, cableways and general construction: photographic print, 1934 May 12
Archival Collection
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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
Archival Component
Looking up from a point below the lower portals, showing the government pumping plant (lower left), the Six Companies' compressor plant (middle left), the location of the lower portals, and the highway loop above the canyon wall (upper center): photographic print, 1931 July 30
Archival Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
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Looking downstream from Nevada side, showing Boulder Dam, spillways, intake towers, etc. Note general clean-up, road work, and intake tower lanterns in place: photographic print, 1935 September 27
Archival Collection
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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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Interior of diversion tunnel Number 2, near upper portal. Invert and side wall sections of lining have been completed. Two cubic yard buckets for pouring concrete are shown on truck: photographic print, 1932 June 02
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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