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Film transparency of Hoover Dam, circa 1940s-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

An image showing the upstream face of Hoover Dam; intake towers can be seen in Lake Mead. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Postcard of Hoover Dam, circa late 1930s

Date

1935 to 1940

Archival Collection

Description

An image showing a bird's eye view of Hoover Dam from the Arizona side, featuring intake towers. Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Postcard of lookout point at Hoover Dam, circa late 1930s

Date

1935 to 1940

Archival Collection

Description

An image showing a bird's eye view of a lookout point over Hoover Dam from the Nevada side. Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Photograph of visitors at Hoover Dam, circa late 1930s

Date

1935 to 1940

Archival Collection

Description

An image of cars and buses on the side of the road while people wait in line at the Hoover Dam elevator tower. Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Postcard of the visitors gallery, Hoover Dam, circa late 1930s

Date

1930 to 1939

Description

Black and white photographic image of the visitors' gallery inside Hoover Dam's power plant. Written on the front of the postcard: "Visitors gallery, power plant, Boulder Dam."

Image

Photograph of Hoover Dam, 1935-1940

Date

1935 to 1940

Description

Hoover Dam was originally called the Boulder Dam from 1933-1947, but was renamed the Hoover Dam by a joint resolution of Congress. Site Name: Hoover Dam (dam)

Image

Slide of Black Canyon, Hoover Dam, circa early 1930s

Date

1930 to 1934

Archival Collection

Description

Black and white aerial view looking down Black Canyon at the Hoover Dam construction site. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Slide of Hoover Dam's crest, circa late 1930s

Date

1935 to 1940

Archival Collection

Description

Black and white image of Hoover Dam's crest and intake towers, as seen from the Arizona side. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Charles P. Squires Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00002

Abstract

The Squires Family Photographs document the Squires Family and the development of the Las Vegas Valley in Nevada from approximately 1860 to 1980, with a bulk of the photographs depicting people and events from 1900 to 1950. The photographs depict the Euro-American settlement and growth of Las Vegas, Nevada; traveling and exploration of Southern Nevada and the Southwestern United States; the Hoover (Boulder) Dam and the Colorado River; clubs and social groups; and the Squires Family, especially prominent newspaper editor and publisher Charles Pember (C. P. or “Pop”) Squires, Delphine “Mom” Anderson Squires, and their children.

Archival Collection

Lake-Eglington Family Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00010

Abstract

The Lake-Eglington Family Photograph Collection contains photographs of the Lake-Eglington Family in and around Las Vegas, Nevada from 1900 to 1976. The materials include photographs of early Las Vegas resident Olive Lake-Eglington and her family shortly after they moved to Las Vegas in 1904, as well as her eventual husband Earle Eglington after he moved to Las Vegas in 1911. The materials also include photographs of Native American artifacts, schools in Clark County, Nevada, artesian wells, the Hoover (Boulder) Dam, the Colorado River, Mt. Charleston, the Mormon Fort, the Stewart (Kiel) Ranch, the Las Vegas Ranch, and many early residents of Las Vegas.

Archival Collection