Black and white image showing an upstream view of Black Canyon from the Hoover Dam construction site. In the distance, Fortification Hill can be seen along with tunnel lining forms near the inlet portals of the Nevada diversion tunnels. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.
Elizabeth von Till and Claude N. Warren Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00906 Collection Name: Elizabeth von Till and Claude N. Warren Professional Papers Box/Folder: Box 246 (Restrictions apply), Box 247 (Restrictions apply)
Nevada Test Site (Miscellaneous). Prospectors' campsite. Typewritten on photo sleeve: "PROSPECTOR'S CAMPSITE. Rusted oven, bed springs and Log Cabin syrup cn=an attest that someone labored in with hoper on this lonely moutainside." [Caption in N[evada] T[est] S[ite] News Bulletin August 28, 1981 p. 2] [Caption in N[evada] T[est] S[ite] News March 1, 1963 p. 5]
Unidentified people standing at the crow's nest above the site of Boulder Dam, later known as Hoover Dam. "Crows Nest, Site of Boulder Dam" is inscribed on the photo.