Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 2211 - 2220 of 9206

Photograph of open valves at Hoover Dam, circa 1935-1936

Date

1935 to 1936

Archival Collection

Description

A night view of open valves from the top of Hoover Dam outlet works.

Image

Photograph of open valves at Hoover Dam, circa 1935-1936

Date

1935 to 1936

Archival Collection

Description

A night view open valves from the top of Hoover Dam outlet works.

Image

Photograph of open valves at Hoover Dam, circa 1935-1936

Date

1935 to 1936

Archival Collection

Description

A night view of open valves from the top of Hoover Dam outlet works.

Image

Photograph of completed intake towers at Hoover Dam, circa 1935

Date

1935

Archival Collection

Description

A view of the completed intake towers, dam crest, and Arizona side of Hoover Dam.

Image

Photograph of Welding shop, Hoover Dam, circa 1932

Date

1931 to 1933

Description

Welding/Blacksmith shop on Arizona side of Hoover Dam. Note on back: "Men sharpening steel tools; pieces 4 to 20 ft. long. Were mostly all star bits. No welding done here. Ingersollrand (Ingersoll-Rand?) equipment sharpening station. - W. A. Davis."

Image

Postcard of water escaping valve, Hoover Dam, 1934-1952

Date

1934 to 1952

Description

First burst of water that went through the valve house at Hoover Dam.

Image

Slide of a corridor inside of Hoover Dam, circa late 1930s

Date

1936 to 1940

Archival Collection

Description

A view looking down a tourist corridor inside of the Hoover Dam.

Image

Postcard of burro near Hoover Dam, circa 1930s-1940s

Date

1930 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

A burro and an unidentified man standing on rocks near Hoover Dam.

Image

Photograph of spillway on the Arizona side of Hoover Dam, March 5, 2009

Date

2009-03-05

Description

Photographer's notes: "Arizona spillway, Hoover Dam, March 5, 2009."

Image

Photograph of a congressional delegation visiting the Hoover Dam site, March 13, 1923

Date

1923-03-26

Description

Congressional delegation visiting the Hoover Dam site. Photo sleeve includes information from responses to Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper "Help Us Write History" requesting photograph identification. Identified individuals: James Scrugham (1st man on the left) was Governor of Nevada at the time, but more names than actual people in the photograph are listed, so all potentially identified names have been included. Governor James G. Scrugham hosting a delegation from the United States Congress, visiting the site of the proposed Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) in 1923. The photo sleeve includes information from responses to Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper "Help Us Write History" requesting photograph identification. Names were identified from a photo from James Scrugham's collection that was identified by him. The photo was published in the book Jones, Florence Lee and Cahlan, John F. "Water: a history of Las Vegas" Las Vegas [Nev.]: Las Vegas Valley Water District, 1975. UNLV Book

Image