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Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print

Date

1978-06-23

Description

Pg.76 #3269 Boulder Dam, looking downstream from the Arizona side. May 27, 1935. Pg.76 #3284 Looking in a general downstream direction, on the Arizona Black Canyon Highway, showing Six Companies Inc. road work. May 27, 1935. Pg.76 #3296 Boulder Dam, looking downstream from the Nevada side, showing Spillways and the Intake Towers. June 1, 1935. Pg.76 #3303 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. June 1, 1935.

Alan Byron Olson Photographs

Identifier

PH-00457

Abstract

The Alan Byron Olson Photographs (approximately 1933) consist of one negative album containing 100 photographic negatives taken by Alan Byron Olson around 1933 that depict the Hoover Dam (then known as Boulder Dam) and the Boulder City Hospital. Olson was a medic for the Boulder City Hospital and the images also depict various hospital staff and other locations related to Hoover Dam. The collection also includes digital copies of the negatives.

Archival Collection

Transcript of interview with Cecile Dotson Crowe by Darin Toldisky, April 27, 1981

Date

1981-04-27

Description

On April 27, 1981, Darin Toldisky interviewed Cecile Dotson Crowe (born October 17th, 1911, in Millville, Utah) at Clark County Library in Las Vegas, Nevada. This interview covers Mrs. Crowe’s account of the building of Hoover (Boulder Dam). Mrs. Crowe discusses the Six Companies, Boulder City, and recalls President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s visit to Nevada by train to dedicate the dam on the 30th of September, 1937.

Text

Southwest travel booklets and pamphlets, 1940s-1950s

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

L. F. Manis Papers on Boulder Dam
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00288
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Papers on Boulder Dam
Box/Folder: Box 02

Archival Component

Postcard of intake towers, Hoover Dam, circa late 1930s

Date

1936 to 1939

Archival Collection

Description

Caption at bottom right hand corner of image reads: "Upstream face of Boulder Dam showing intake towers and Arizona observation point." Boulder Dam was officially re-named Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Film transparency of a general view of Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1933-1940s

Date

1933 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

The view of the white Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City, Nevada. The hotel is located at 1305 Arizona Street on what was originally known as the Cardenas Plaza. Transcribed onto the roof of the hotel: "Boulder Dam Hotel."

Image

Film transparency of a general view of Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1933-1940s

Date

1933 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

The view of the white Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City, Nevada. The hotel is located at 1305 Arizona Street on what was originally known as the Cardenas Plaza. Transcribed onto the roof of the hotel: "Boulder Dam Hotel."

Image

Film transparency of a general view of Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1933-1940s

Date

1933 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

The view of the white Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City, Nevada. The hotel is located at 1305 Arizona Street on what was originally known as the Cardenas Plaza. Transcribed onto the roof of the hotel: "Boulder Dam Hotel."

Image