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Film strip of Boulder City or Hoover Dam construction, image 013: photographic print
Date
1930 (year approximate) to 1939 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
This photograph has three images. The first one (0272_0059) has an inscription that reads, "Stiff leg crane. Workers getting stiff leg ready to work. To be a hook tender for this, on the dam, is a very tough job. It has its good points tho. Some days there's not much to do, and you are hung on upstream of the dam, where no one wants to take a chance, and climb down to see what you are doing." The second one (0272_0060) reads, "Riggers threading the steel cable on stiff leg." The third image (0272_0061) reads, "Stiff leg - Crane erected to pour Arizona intakes and this corner of the dam."
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Film strip of Boulder City or Hoover Dam construction, image 014: photographic print
Date
1930 (year approximate) to 1939 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
This photograph has three images. The first one (0272_0062) shows the Nevada-side of dam and the intake towers. The picture reads, "Nevada intakes in their infancy. Another kind of stiff leg to handle material for intake towers on Nevada side, see the monkey slide and wiggling stairway - small view of head tower for hi-lines in upper corner." The second one (0272_0063) reads "Good view of rebar that goes into intake towers. Very heavy reinforcement steel. I tied steel a half shift one night. On this tower, Nevada side, and two nights later." The third one (0272_0064) has a handwritten inscription that reads, "A beautiful sight. Intake tower at night."
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Film strip of Boulder City or Hoover Dam construction, image 016: photographic print
Date
1930 (year approximate) to 1939 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
This photograph has three images. The first one (0272_0066) reads, "High and low level (x) is location of control gates. When completed - 380 ft. high - 85 ft. diameter at base - cylinder gates, at base, and 150 ft. higher. Steel and concrete bridges connect towers to the dam control house on each tower to operate gates - weighting half million pounds." The second one (0272_0067) reads, "Babcock and Wilcox Plant - 'Home of 30' pipe' - Being unable to transport large pipe by rail - it was necessary to build an onsite plant 1 1%2 mi. from dam." The third image (0272_0068) has a handwritten inscription that reads, "Lowering first section of 50 ton pipe to 80' penstocks leading from intake towers."
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Film strip of Boulder City or Hoover Dam construction, image 018: photographic print
Date
1934 to 1935
Archival Collection
Description
This photograph has three images. The first one (0272_0094) shows the Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City, Nevada. The inscription reads, "A new building built in 1934-35. Needed to accommodate influx of visitors to the dam." The second one (0272_0095) depicts a residential section in Boulder City, Nevada. It reads "City built for government men - very neat - with green grass and ornamental plants - in the far distance were small houses for dam workers with families." The third image (0272_0096) has a handwritten inscription that reads, "Dam is completed, visitors driving along the top for a thrill. Water has backed up to height of lower intake valve."
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Film transparency of Rotary Club members and a marching band at Hoover Dam, circa mid 1930s
Date
1935 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
A photograph of a marching band performing at a Boulder City Rotary Club event at Hoover Dam.
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Photograph of dam walkways and water towers from below, Hoover Dam, December 20, 1936
Date
1936-12-20
Archival Collection
Description
Walkways and towers as part of the structure of the Hoover Dam, seen from below in the reservoir.
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Photograph of construction on Hoover Dam diversion tunnel, circa 1932-1933
Date
1932 to 1933
Archival Collection
Description
An image of workers and equipment inside the Hoover (Boulder) Dam diversion tunnel.
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Photograph of construction on Hoover Dam diversion tunnel, circa 1932-1933
Date
1932 to 1933
Archival Collection
Description
An image of construction on the upper portals Hoover (Boulder) Dam diversion tunnel #1.
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Photograph of construction on Hoover Dam diversion tunnels, circa 1930-1935
Date
1930 to 1935
Archival Collection
Description
An image of workers placing dynamite for water diversion during construction of the Hoover (Boulder) Dam diversion tunnel.
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Photograph of construction on Hoover Dam diversion tunnels, circa 1930-1935
Date
1930 to 1935
Archival Collection
Description
An image of workers placing dynamite for water diversion during construction of the Hoover (Boulder) Dam diversion tunnel.
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