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H. O. Watts and others viewing human skeletal remains during an archaeological excavation at Willow Beach near Lake Mohave, 1950
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File
Archival Collection
Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00071
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box SH-046 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box SH-046 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Signing official contracts and deeds from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to Boulder City: Joe Manix; Thomas White, M.D.; Albert Franklin; and Morgan Sweeney; Lorraine Kautz; A. B. West; Robert Broadbent; and Milton N. Nathanson, 1960 January 04
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File
Archival Collection
Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00071
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 05 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 05 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Boulder City partial site plan, tract maps, and topographic maps created by E. G. Radig & Associates, the Public Works Division, Department of Engineering, and American Aerial Surveys, Inc., 1969 to 1985
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
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Collection Number: MS-00955
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
Box/Folder: Flat File 05
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
Box/Folder: Flat File 05
Archival Component
Interior of diversion tunnel Number 2, near upper portal. Invert and side wall sections of lining have been completed. Two cubic yard buckets for pouring concrete are shown on truck: photographic print, 1932 June 02
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Item
Archival Collection
Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Archival Component
As protection against high water, a "bridle" has been attached to upstream face of gravel pit bridge. A 3-inch cable is anchored to concrete dead-men and horizontal stays are attached to bents on bridge: photographic print, 1932 May 15
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Item
Archival Collection
Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Archival Component
Detail image of side-wall "jumbo" used in placing 3-foot thick lining in diversion tunnels. Side wings are jacked into place, and concrete is poured through ports by a traveling crane and 2 yard buckets: photographic print, 1932 April 18
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Archival Collection
Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Archival Component
Three hundred boxes of dynamite were used in spectacular blast which demolished the old Lookout Point. Photograph taken from the new Lookout Point, on Black Canyon Highway: photographic print, 1932 August 16
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Item
Archival Collection
Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Archival Component
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: photographic print, 1935 June 01
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Item
Archival Collection
Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 02
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 02
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Looking up from a point below the lower portals, showing the government pumping plant (lower left), the Six Companies' compressor plant (middle left), the location of the lower portals, and the highway loop above the canyon wall (upper center): photographic print, 1931 July 30
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Item
Archival Collection
Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Archival Component
Photograph of the view from Fortification Hill, Lake Mead, circa 1935-1950
Date
1935 to 1950
Archival Collection
Description
The view from the top of Fortification Hill overlooking Lake Mead. Created in the late 1930s when Hoover Dam was built atop of the Colorado River, Lake Mead is one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the United States at 112 miles long and 500 feet deep.
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