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Photograph of burro and women near Hoover Dam, circa late 1930s
Date
1935 to 1940
Archival Collection
Description
Two unidentified women and a little girl with a burro on the beach area near Hoover Dam.
Image
Photograph of Elwood Mead and others at the Hoover Dam, (Nev.), circa 1936
Date
1936 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Elwood Mead, head of the Bureau of Reclamation, stands with two other men at the Hoover Dam.
Image
Photograph of construction towers and lines at the base of Hoover Dam, approximately 1931-1936
Date
1931 to 1936
Archival Collection
Description
Looking up to some construction equipment and pulleys at the base of the Hoover Dam. Site Name: Hoover Dam (dam)
Image
Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print
Date
1971-05-04
Description
One of the Mack trucks in front of the upper portal of Diversion Tunnel #2. This truck has 9 cubic yards capacity. Note the steel canopies over the driver's heads on all the trucks. Jan. 28, 1932.
Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print
Date
1971-05-04
Description
A flashlight photograph of the interior of one of the diversion tunnels. The drilling jumbo is working at the tunnel face. The 12' by 12' top-heading can be plainly seen. January 28, 1932.
Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print
Date
1971-05-04
Description
One of the drilling jumbos ready for action. This view was posed outside the tunnel, just as the swing shift was ready to go to work on the upper portal of Diversion Tunnel #1. January 28, 1932.
Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print
Date
1971-05-04
Description
Drilling jumbos (aka Williams Jumbo) mounted on the back of a truck for starting construction of lower portal No. 4, Arizona side of Black Canyon. 9-26-31. (This first wood-frame jumbo was experimental - the jumbos later were steel pipe)
Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print
Date
1971-06-03
Description
Looking up Black Canyon from a point below all the lower portals, showing the Government pumping plant (lower left), the Six Companies' compressor plant (middle left), the location of the lower portals, & the highway loop above the canyon wall (upper center) - 7/30/31.
Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print
Date
1971-08-03
Description
p.16 #1074 Scaling down canyon wall, in excavation for intake tower on Nevada side. Apr. 1, 1932. p.16 #1073 Close-up of No.1074 to the left. Workmen are 700 feet above river. Apr. 1, 1932.
Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print
Date
1972-03-08
Description
Pg.44 #2776 Close-up of No. 3 Arizona Intake Tower, showing the cylinder gates being placed. July 24th, 1934. Pg.44 #2775 Close-up of the Arizona Intake Towers, from the High Catwalk. July 24th, 1934.