Pg.76 #3269 Boulder Dam, looking downstream from the Arizona side. May 27, 1935. Pg.76 #3284 Looking in a general downstream direction, on the Arizona Black Canyon Highway, showing Six Companies Inc. road work. May 27, 1935. Pg.76 #3296 Boulder Dam, looking downstream from the Nevada side, showing Spillways and the Intake Towers. June 1, 1935. Pg.76 #3303 View of the open cut portion of the Switchyard Control Circuit Tunnel. Shovel is excavating for the Switchyard, and the building in the foreground is the power sub-station. The Babcock and Wilcox Company plant can be seen in the extreme background. June 1, 1935.
The Alan Byron Olson Photographs (approximately 1933) consist of one negative album containing 100 photographic negatives taken by Alan Byron Olson around 1933 that depict the Hoover Dam (then known as Boulder Dam) and the Boulder City Hospital. Olson was a medic for the Boulder City Hospital and the images also depict various hospital staff and other locations related to Hoover Dam. The collection also includes digital copies of the negatives.
On April 27, 1981, Darin Toldisky interviewed Cecile Dotson Crowe (born October 17th, 1911, in Millville, Utah) at Clark County Library in Las Vegas, Nevada. This interview covers Mrs. Crowe’s account of the building of Hoover (Boulder Dam). Mrs. Crowe discusses the Six Companies, Boulder City, and recalls President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s visit to Nevada by train to dedicate the dam on the 30th of September, 1937.
Caption at bottom right hand corner of image reads: "Upstream face of Boulder Dam showing intake towers and Arizona observation point." Boulder Dam was officially re-named Hoover Dam in 1947.
The view of the white Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City, Nevada. The hotel is located at 1305 Arizona Street on what was originally known as the Cardenas Plaza. Transcribed onto the roof of the hotel: "Boulder Dam Hotel."
The view of the white Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City, Nevada. The hotel is located at 1305 Arizona Street on what was originally known as the Cardenas Plaza. Transcribed onto the roof of the hotel: "Boulder Dam Hotel."
The view of the white Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City, Nevada. The hotel is located at 1305 Arizona Street on what was originally known as the Cardenas Plaza. Transcribed onto the roof of the hotel: "Boulder Dam Hotel."