Electrical display during the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Electrical display during the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: October 9, 1936
Date: 1936-10-09
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: An electrical display 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 light, and engineers claimed that the display was visible from 100 miles away.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: City Hall during Power celebration
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 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

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00288b2v
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .