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Hoover Dam, 1935

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00062
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 3

Archival Component

Postcard of the Hoover Dam, 1934-1952

Date

1934 to 1952

Description

The postcard displays the downstream face of Hoover Dam with the view a little farther than other views.

Image

Hoover Dam, undated

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00214
Collection Name: Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13

Archival Component

Hoover Dam, undated

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00214
Collection Name: Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13

Archival Component

Postcard of Hoover Dam, February 1935

Date

1935-02

Archival Collection

Description

A comparison of an image of Hoover Dam's upstream face in February 1935 to an image taken later that year, after the waters of Lake Mead had risen. The captions read "February 1935- Boulder Dam today." Boulder Dam was officially re-named Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Postcard of Hoover Dam, circa 1935

Date

1935

Archival Collection

Description

An image of the downstream face of Boulder Dam. The name was officially changed to Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Construction on the Hoover Dam: photographic print

Date

1954-03-08

Description

From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Construction on Hoover Dam in 1951.

Image

Photograph of Hoover Dam interior, 1935-1940

Date

1935 to 1940

Description

Interior of Hoover Dam. It was originally called the Boulder Dam, but renamed in 1947 as the Hoover Dam. Site Name: Hoover Dam (dam)

Image

Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00267

Abstract

The Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection (1931-1935), consists of approximately 400 black-and-white photographic prints contained in two photograph albums and an additional twenty-one loose black-and-white photographic prints with ten corresponding photographic negatives.

Archival Collection

Photograph of Hoover Dam construction, 1931

Date

1931

Description

A view of workers operating equipment at the Hoover Dam construction site near Boulder City, Nevada.

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