Selma Morrison Photo Album, containing images of people and places in Southern Nevada (and other various locations across the United States) from approximately 1910-1940. Loose photos that originally were part of the album were digitized in the order that they would have appeared in the album. Several images not connected to the album and loose ephemera have also been digitized and can be viewed after the back cover of the album.
From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Taken on August 6, 1941 the Hoover (then Boulder) Spillway Discharge, Arizona. The No. 1 Drumgate opened (lowered) slightly, the Drumgates are fully raised and it had back water 115 miles, they are eleven (11) feet high above the water line but measure was 100.x16.
From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). General activity in generator foundation forming for the Hoover powerplant, note generator foundation bolts around circle on October 4, 1951.