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Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print

Date

1971-08-17

Description

p.20 #1411 - p.20 #1412 These pictures together with two on opposite page, form panorama of operations being carried on at canyon rim, on Nevada side. Photo was taken from Arizona Spillway site. To the left is shown Black Canyon Highway. High level mixing plant will be located behind fill on the road. To the right is shown highway extension road to Nevada Spillway. Note shovel boom projecting at former site of Lookout Point. Aug. 12, 1932. p.20 #1451 Three hundred boxes of dynamite were used in spectacular blast which demolished Lookout Point. Picture taken from new Look Point, on Black Canyon Highway. Aug. 16, 1932. p.20 #1452 Blasting usually scheduled for 11:30 a.m., and billowing dust dislodged from canyon rim completely fills the canyon. Aug. 16, 1932.

Photograph of abandoned museum structure, Lost City (Nev.), 1934

Date

1934

Description

Small temporary museum room at the "Lost City" reconstructed houses site to be abandoned and inundated.

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