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Truck equipment, 1931 December 08

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Burrell C. Lawton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam
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Collection Number: PH-00120
Collection Name: Burrell C. Lawton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam
Box/Folder: Folder 02

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Arizona intake towers, 1934 July 24

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Burrell C. Lawton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam
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Collection Number: PH-00120
Collection Name: Burrell C. Lawton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam
Box/Folder: Folder 02

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Photograph of metal cylinders, 1935 September 01

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UNLV University Libraries Collection on Hoover Dam
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Collection Number: MS-00713
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Collection on Hoover Dam
Box/Folder: Box SH-043

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Looking upstream toward Black Canyon, approximately 1932 to 1933

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Burrell C. Lawton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam
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Collection Number: PH-00120
Collection Name: Burrell C. Lawton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam
Box/Folder: Folder 02

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Seventeen members of an electric power study group from Korea: photographic print

Date

1963-02-18

Description

Seventeen members of an electric power study group from Korea, having completed a six months' on-the-job training program in the American electric power industry under sponsorship of the International Cooperation Administration visited Hoover Dam Sept. 22, 1958 on their way home. Far left: Boulder Canyon Project Manager L. J. Hudlow, host to the group; Behind group, (American wearing plaid shirt), is R. L. Legler, Electrical Engineer, Bureau of Reclamation. (For rest of identification see accompanying sheet.)

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Transcript of interview with Perle Garrett by Marilyn Swanson, March 2, 1975

Date

1975-03-02

Description

On March 2, 1975, Marilyn Swanson interviewed her neighbor Perle Garrett (born April 27, 1905 in Overbrook, Kansas) in her home in Boulder City, Nevada. This interview covers Boulder City during the 1930s, with special focus on the building of Boulder Dam. Mrs. Garrett relocated to Boulder City because her husband Theodore Garrett was one of the workers at the dam. She also discusses Six Companies houses, family life, the weather, churches in Las Vegas and recreational activities for local children. Her husband is also present during the interview.

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Photograph of Sam Jones in Williamsville, Nevada, May 13, 1931

Date

1931-05-13

Description

A black and white image of 75-year-old Sam Jones by a tent in Williamsville (known to the residents as Ragtown), a makeshift community created near Black Canyon as construction began on the Hoover Dam.

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Film transparency of Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1931-1936

Date

1931 to 1936

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Description

An image of Arizona Street in Boulder City. From this view point, may different city shops are visible, such as the Hoover Dam Visitors Bureau (left) and the Nava-Hopi Trading Post (right).

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Upstream of canyon walls, 1934 January

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Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00022
Collection Name: Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 04

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Construction inside tunnel, 1934 January

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Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00022
Collection Name: Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 04

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