Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 61 - 70 of 10222

Postcard of Hoover Dam, 1931

Date

1931

Description

Postcard with an illustration of Boulder Dam view from Lookout Point. Boulder Dam was later renamed Hoover Dam.

Image

Photograph of Hoover Dam, 1935

Date

1935

Description

A view of the outlet works at Hoover Dam.

Image

Postcard of Hoover Dam spillway, circa 1935-1936

Date

1935 to 1936

Archival Collection

Description

Looking upstream from Boulder Dam, showing lower Lake Mead and highway to Kingman, Arizona. Boulder Dam was officially re-named Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Postcard of Hoover Dam at night, circa late 1930s

Date

1936 to 1939

Description

Hand-painted postcard showing an upstream view of Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Text on front of postcard: "Boulder Dam at Night"; Text on back of postcard: "Boulder Dam is the highest in the world, rises 727 feet above bed rock. It is 650 feet thick at the base, and the 45 foot crest forms a highway bridge from wall to wall of the gorge, 1180 feet in length, connecting transcontinental traffic arteries between Kingman, Arizona and Boulder City, Nevada. The view of the Dam at night is a most impressive spectacle."

Image

Photograph of a transmission tower, Hoover Dam, circa 1935

Date

1935

Archival Collection

Description

Men working on a transmission tower at Hoover Dam.

Image

Postcard of Hoover Dam, 1931

Date

1931

Description

Illustration of Hoover Dam on a postcard envelope titled, "Boulder Dam and Vicinity."

Image

Postcard of Hoover Dam, circa mid 1930s to 1950s

Date

1935 to 1959

Description

A sunset at Hoover Dam.

Image

Photograph of boxcar being lowered into Hoover Dam coffer dam, circa 1934-1935

Date

1934 to 1935

Archival Collection

Description

View from above of a boxcar being lowered into the nearly completed Hoover (Boulder) Dam.

Image

Photograph of Hoover Dam, 1934

Date

1934-01

Description

Photograph taken by John McCreary of the Hoover Dam, downstream of reefer, January 1934.

Image

Photograph of the Hoover Dam, 1934

Date

1934-01

Description

Photograph taken by John McCreary of the Hoover Dam's upstream and wall on January 1934.

Image