Boulder Dam, viewed from below near the Colorado River, Boulder City vicinity, 1939
Item Overview
- Title
- Boulder Dam, viewed from below near the Colorado River, Boulder City vicinity, 1939
- Photographer
- West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
- Date Created
- March, 1939
- Date
- 1939-03
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- West (H. H.) Collection
Notes
- Description
- Photograph of the downstream face of the Boulder (now Hoover) Dam as viewed from below, near the Colorado River. The hydraulic generator plant runs horizontally along the foreground of the photograph. Behind it, the downstream face of the dam stands. A metallic structure occupies the upper right corner of the photograph.
- Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: 226. Boulder Dam trip March 21, 22 and 23 1939. 674 miles. See Nos.224 & 225. Rest rooms on the desert near Hodge. Standard Oil Station at Baker. Zetta making for the rest room. Mertie and Wes at the left. The sign at Baker showing road to Death Valley. 2 negatives of the toilet at Lake Mead[.] The Dam. Intake towers. Boat landing at Lake Mead. 8 negatives.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs - Names
- Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
- Location
- Nevada--Boulder City
- Longitude
- 36.014881
- Latitude
- -114.738612
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Dams--Arizona--Mohave County
Dams--Nevada--Clark County
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1998_000226_001
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hpvv8
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.