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The Nevada intake towers, from the Arizona side: photographic print, 1935 February 25

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 02

Archival Component

Photograph of a man surveying the Colorado River from a boat in Black Canyon, circa 1931

Date

1929 to 1933

Description

Man standing on a boat traveling south on the Colorado River through Black Canyon

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Cruising the Colorado River in Black Canyon prior to Hoover Dam construction"

Image

Photograph of transport trucks, Boulder City (Nev.), approximately 1932-1936

Date

1932 to 1936

Description

Looking from Cherry Street in Boulder City, Nevada, men unload from transport trucks in front of the Anderson Mess Hall (on left). The number three and four dormitories are on the right. Site Name: Hoover Dam (dam)

Image

Paul M. Lytle interview, March 8, 1995 transcript

Date

1995-03-08

Description

Lytle discusses his birth in Salt Lake City, Utah, his early life in Overton, Nevada, moving around the Southwest United States, and returning to Overton in the early 1930s to work with the Civilian Conservation Corps. Subjects Lytle also talks about in the interview include road and campsite construction at the Valley of Fire State Park, stories about associates and relatives, and being enlisted as a male nurse with the United States Army during World War II. Lastly, Lytle talks about the construction of an exhibit building at Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) originally used as a headquarters for soldiers during World War II to protect the dam.

Text

Hawley, Lawrence Earl, 1929-

Lawrence Earl Hawley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on November 07, 1929 to Rollo Earl and Margaret Ella Hawley. His family moved to Ely, Nevada in 1931. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1941 and became an attorney. During his interview, he talks about the Hoover Dam and while it was being build.

Person

Boulder City teenagers renovating the abandoned Camp Williston barracks to serve as the Polka Dot Haven, the Boulder City teenager's club, 1953

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00022
Collection Name: Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 03

Archival Component

Boulder City teenagers renovating the abandoned Camp Williston barracks to serve as the Polka Dot Haven, the Boulder City teenager's club, 1953

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00022
Collection Name: Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 03

Archival Component

Boulder City teenagers renovating the abandoned Camp Williston barracks to serve as the Polka Dot Haven, the Boulder City teenager's club, 1953

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00022
Collection Name: Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 03

Archival Component

Six Companies' scrip retrieved from a metal box which had been dumped into the Colorado River after the use of the scrip was discontinued, undated

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00022
Collection Name: Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 02

Archival Component

Looking downstream from a point below the lower portals of the diversion tunnels, with muck disposal road show on both sides of the river, 1932 January 19

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Burrell C. Lawton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00120
Collection Name: Burrell C. Lawton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam
Box/Folder: Folder 01

Archival Component