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Members of the Hoover Dam Apprenticeship Committee: photographic print
Date
1953-05-27
Archival Collection
Description
From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Harvey W. Boyce, Boulder Canyon Project Electrician, became the first Bureau of Reclamation apprenticeship graduate in the Nation on April 16, 1951, when he was presented his "diploma" in a brief ceremony at Hoover Dam. Doing the horrors is John H.Phillips, armature-winder at Hoover Dam and member of the apprenticeship committee. A few moments later Mr. Boyce was handed his promotion from apprentice to journeyman by Director of Power L.R. Douglass, third from left. The Boulder Canyon Project was the first throughout the Bureau of Reclamation to establish the apprenticeship training program. Left to right are Morgan J. Sweeney, Construction and Maintenance Superintendent, Boulder Canyon Project; Steve Wenta, cabinet maker and finish carpenter and member of the apprenticeship committee; Mr. Douglass, Mr. Boyce, Mr. Phillips, M.H.Mitchell, Regional Personnel Officer and chairman of the apprenticeship committee, and Lloyd Hudlow, Assistant Director of Power.
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Photograph of truck dumping dirt into Colorado River for Hoover Dam cofferdam, circa 1930-1935
Date
1930 to 1935
Archival Collection
Description
An image of dirt being dumped into the Colorado River to create a cofferdam at the Hoover (Boulder) Dam construction site.
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Photograph of dirt being dumped into the Colorado River for Hoover Dam cofferdam, circa 1930-1935
Date
1930 to 1935
Archival Collection
Description
An image of dirt being dumped into the Colorado River to create a cofferdam at the Hoover (Boulder) Dam construction site.
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Photograph of cement mixer being lowered into Hoover Dam construction site, circa 1930-1935
Date
1930 to 1935
Archival Collection
Description
An image of a Rex Motor Mixer being lowered into Black Canyon during Hoover (Boulder) Dam construction.
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Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print
Date
1971-09-21
Description
p.22 #1450 Looking across reservoir area, which will be submerged when Hoover Dam is completed. Flat-topped hill in center of picture will form a small island and ridge in foreground will be submerged. Aug. 15, 1932. p.22 #1446 Visitors to project are struck with multiplicity of dish pans used as reflectors, which are scattered all over project where night work is carried on. This is crew that installs them. Aug. 15, 1932. p.22 #1484 High scalers perched on bench 1000 ft. above river prepare anchorages from which workmen will be suspended by ropes in scaling canyon walls for penstock tunnel adits. Aug. 22, 1932.
Aerial photograph of the completed dam, Hoover Dam, circa 1930s
Date
1931 to 1940
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial view of completed Hoover Dam and a sailboat on Lake Mead in the rear.
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Aerial photograph of Fortification Mountain, Hoover Dam, circa 1930s
Date
1931 to 1940
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial view of downstream Fortification Mountain for Hoover Dam and Black Canyon.
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Photograph of man working at the Hoover Dam construction site, 1931
Date
1931
Archival Collection
Description
Close-up of an unidentified man working on construction of Hoover Dam near Boulder City, Nevada, 1931.
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Slide of Hoover Dam, circa late 1930s
Date
1936 to 1940
Archival Collection
Description
A view looking over the downstream face at the intake towers on the upstream side.
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Slide of Hoover Dam, circa late 1930s
Date
1936 to 1940
Archival Collection
Description
A view of the downstream face of Hoover with a rainbow over the Colorado River.
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