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Handwritten inscription on back of photo: "16-rigger riding the hook on a cableway (one of nine that span Black Canyon). The highway approach to the dam from the Arizona side can be seen across the canyon."

Handwritten inscription on back of photo: "View at upper portals showing narrowed channel just prior to diversion". Construction roads, equipment, and workers are visible. Some buildings and trucks are also in the picture.

Shows a construction worker and power shovel inside a diversion tunnel at the Hoover Dam construction site.
1932-03-07
Construction on the Arizona power house. A portion of the dam face is seen in the upper left. A construction worker stands on a dump truck in front of the power house and another worker is seen sitting on part of a cableway in the lower center of...
1935-03-26
General view of the switchyard at Hoover Dam. A power shovel, dump truck, and other construction equipment are visible. Buildings and a few construction workers are also seen.
1935-09-27
Shows construction men working on an intake tower and bridge. They are lowering the trashracks into their respective slots. Also shows a crane and hoisting machinery. Cables cross overhead.
1935-05-27
View, looking toward Arizona intake tower control house, of construction workers placing concrete forms for pouring on the bridge. There are workers standing on top of the control house, too. A crane can be seen in the right background of the...
1935-03-25
Construction workers are seen working amid the wood and steel framework during construction of the Arizona power house. Unfinished penstock tunnel portals can be seen in the canyon wall in the background.
1934-06-14
Close-up of framework inside the unfinished opening of a penstock tunnel. Construction workers can be seen in the foreground on what appears to be a transportation track.
1934-06-21
View of Hoover Dam and power house under construction. Buildings and structures, concrete pouring forms, cables, and a crane can be seen. Some construction workers and trucks are also pictured. Above the dam part of an intake tower is sticking up.
1934-05-29
This photograph shows construction workers using a hose attached to a tank filled with water to water down the dirt at the Dam site. The water tank is attached to a truck bed. Three workers are operating the water hose. Two other workers are...
2024-04-25
Close-up of scaffolding and construction on one of the power houses in the Hoover Dam construction site. Sections of pipe and other construction equipment can be seen on the ground in the foreground.
1934-03-28
View from donwstream on the Arizona side of the Colorado River of concrete pouring construction on Hoover Dam. Construction workers are seen amid multiple concrete pouring forms and scaffolding. A suspended concrete pouring bucket is seen in the...
1934-01-24
Vehicles, men, and construction equipment are visible. This view was taken in the early stages of the construction of Hoover Dam in the bottom of Black Canyon.
1933-06-03
Shows construction equipment being lowered by cable at the site of Hoover Dam construction. Buildings, other construction equipment, and workers are visible.

Shows a construction worker standing in concrete at the Hoover Dam construction site. Concrete forms can be seen as well as the huge bucket used to pour concrete into the forms. The bucket was lowered by hoisting machinery, which is attached to...
1934-01-07
View of the concrete work on the crest of Hoover Dam. Men and construction equipment are visible.

Shows construction workers making the final pour in the slot. Several men are working, the others supervising. A truck and cement mixer are visible. In the bakcground a portion of an intake tower can be seen.
1935-05-29
View of construction of the Arizona power house at the dam site. Hoisting equipment, cables, trucks and construction workers can be seen. Various buildings and structures are pictured as well as roads and concrete pouring forms.
1934-05-29
This photograph shows workers operating a power shovel to dig dirt and rocks and put them in a truck at the Hoover Dam site. The picture also shows an air compressor.
2024-04-25
This shows a view looking down into Black (not Boulder) Canyon during early stages of construction of Hoover Dam. The Colorado River is in the process of being diverted and construction equipment and workers can be seen in the foreground.
2024-04-25
he photo shows two construction dump trucks sitting in front of heavy equipment. This machinery appears to have some sort of pulley apparatus with a bucket attached for hauling dirt or rocks from the construction site. There are two construction...
2024-04-25
Two construction workers at the Hoover Dam site working with heavy machinery.
2024-04-25
A construction worker sits in a Caterpillar bulldozer in front of an unfinished diversion tunnel portal.
1932-03-08
Construction workers are operating a power shovel, dumping dirt into a dump truck in a diversion tunnel at Hoover Dam. This is in the early phase of dam construction.
1931-12-08
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