Crowd watching a float pass by during the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Crowd watching a float pass by during the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: October 9, 1936
Date: 1936-09-09
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Crowds of citizens observing as a float passes by during the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural, held to honor the first instances of power-production from the dam. Downtown Los Angeles was flooded with 7.2 million candle-power lights, and engineers claimed that the display was visible from 100 miles away.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: City Hall during Power celebration

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Events
Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles
Entertainment
Arts
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00288b1b
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Rights Country: US
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