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Turbine and generator assembly – Boulder Dam: photographic print, approximately 1930 to 1942

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Bob Parker Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00271
Collection Name: Bob Parker Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01

Archival Component

Emery Airboat at Boulder Dam site: photographic print, approximately 1970 to 2004

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Murl Emery Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00126
Collection Name: Murl Emery Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01

Archival Component

Photograph of work on concrete, Hoover Dam, circa 1930s

Date

1931 to 1936

Description

Close-up of work on concrete and intake towers during Hoover Dam construction at Black Canyon.

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Film strip of Boulder City or Hoover Dam construction, image 018: photographic print

Date

1934 to 1935

Description

This photograph has three images. The first one (0272_0094) shows the Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City, Nevada. The inscription reads, "A new building built in 1934-35. Needed to accommodate influx of visitors to the dam." The second one (0272_0095) depicts a residential section in Boulder City, Nevada. It reads "City built for government men - very neat - with green grass and ornamental plants - in the far distance were small houses for dam workers with families." The third image (0272_0096) has a handwritten inscription that reads, "Dam is completed, visitors driving along the top for a thrill. Water has backed up to height of lower intake valve."

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Postcard with three photographs of Hoover Dam, Nevada, 1960s

Date

1960 to 1969

Description

Oversized postcard with three scenes from Hoover Dam: people standing in front of the downstream face of the dam; automobile traffic on the dam crest, showing the tops of two of the intake towers; the downstream face of the dam and the power houses. Caption: "Greetings from the world's highest dam, Hoover Dam." On back: "P29348. Plastichrome by Colourpicture Publishers, Inc., Boston, Mass."

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Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print

Date

1974-05-23

Description

Pg.4 #2286 Hoover Dam. July 26th, 1933. Pg.4 #2277 Looking upstream at the Arizona Spillway. July 22nd, 1933. Pg.4 #2278 Looking upstream at the Nevada Spillway. July 22nd, 1933.

View of the Hoover Dam: photographic print

Date

1930 (year approximate) to 1940 (year approximate)

Description

From the Tom and Erma Godbey Photograph Collection (PH-00262) -- Written on the back of the photograph, "Boulder City, Nev."

Image

Photograph of Hoover Dam, circa 1930s

Date

1931 to 1940

Description

Black adn white photograph of completed dam with valve house outlet in operation.

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Scaffolding above the Hoover Dam, Arizona: photographic print

Date

1954

Description

From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Scaffolding on face of rock slab above Hoover Dam valve house in 1954.

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Scaffolding above the Hoover Dam, Arizona: photographic print

Date

1958-09-22

Description

From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Scaffolding on face of rock slab above Hoover Dam valve house in 1954.

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