Genre: Aerial views and cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections / Subject: Events - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: An aerial view of Los Angeles 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.
Date:: October 9, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives