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Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print

Date

1971-09-20

Description

p.21 #1506 Blast on Cableway bench excavation, on Arizona side, above dam site. Picture taken from lower portal of Railroad Tunnel No.1. Aug. 24, 1932. p.21 #1457 Picture of blast at same place shown above, taken from opposite, on Black Canyon Highway. Aug. 16, 1932. p.21 #1507 Huge billows of rock and dust pour over canyon rim and descend to river below. Aug. 24, 1932. p.21 #1456 Blast on Arizona intake tower excavation, which has filled canyon with smoke and dust. Upper steel suspension bridge shown in background. Aug. 16, 1932.

Red Skelton's art exhibit at the Sands Hotel: photographs and promotional records

Date

1964
1967

Description

Series XI. Red Skelton

Sands Hotel and Casino

Mixed Content

Photograph of the fuselage section of the Hughes Flying Boat being moved to Terminal Island, California, 1946

Date

1946

Description

A section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled in June of 1946.

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Warren A. Bechtel Album of Hoover Dam: photographic print

Date

1977-10-27

Description

Pg.66 #3136 Close-up of the Arizona Intake Towers - No.6 on left, No.3 on right. Note the forms for the dome of Intake Tower No.6. March 4th, 1935. Pg.66 #3133 View from the Arizona Spillway bridge, looking downstream into No.4 raise, showing general construction methods. Feb. 25th,1935. Pg.66 #3120 Looking downstream from the Arizona side, showing Boulder Dam, the Intake Towers and general layout. Note the dome formed on one of the Intake Towers. Feb. 25th, 1935. Pg.66 #3139 The run-around excavated in the old top heading adit, to facilitate handling concrete for No.4 Plug. March 4th, 1935.

Photograph of Robert Pellissier and two others by tipped house, (Nev.). 1930s

Date

1930 to 1939

Description

L-R: Robert Pellissier, Dorothy Casner, Allie Van Fleet. Group stands in front of a house that has tipped over off of the truck carrying it.

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