Color image of activists erecting a wooden cross in the desert. They are part of the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group protesting nuclear testing.

Hoover (Boulder) Dam, taken from the upstream side of the dam on the Nevada side. May, 1947. The intake towers, Nevada spillway house (in the background, behind the intake towers), and the Nevada spillway are visible. During the years of lobbying leading up to the passage of legislation authorizing the dam in 1928, Hoover Dam was originally referred to "Boulder Dam" or as "Boulder Canyon Dam", even though the proposed site had shifted to Black Canyon. The Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928 (BCPA) never mentions a proposed name or title for the dam. When Secretary Wilbur spoke at the ceremony starting the building of the railway between Las Vegas and the dam site on September 17, 1930, he named the dam "Hoover Dam", citing a tradition of naming dams after Presidents, though none had been so honored during their terms of office. After Hoover's election defeat in 1932 and the accession of the Roosevelt administration, Secretary Ickes ordered on May 13, 1933 that the dam be referred to as "Boulder Dam". In the following years, the n

A general view of Dangberg Ranch Site in Douglas County. In the background unidentified men are working. Written on the slide: "Dangberg Site, Douglas County, Nevada."

From the Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection (PH-00237)

A tree blooming with pink flowers in front of a building in Carson City.

A view of an unidentified cave with archaeological tools inside.