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View of a spillway at Hoover Dam with water spilling over. People are standing on the bridge, watching.

View of the Arizona spillway and intake towers on the downstream side of the dam. Cars are visible on the road across the top of the dam and the reservoir (Lake Mead) is beginning to fill.

President Franklin Roosevelt and other dignitaries inspect the dam at the dedication ceremonies.
2024-04-30
Shows upstream face of dam with almost-completed intake towers. The reservoir (Lake Mead) has started to fill, and a man is rowing a boat on the lake. The mouth of a diversion tunnel on the left side of the picture and derrick cranes on both sides...

A man is standing at the opening of an erected tent. The man is hanging laundry on the rope attached to the top of the tent that is staked to the ground. There is an automobile tire in the foreground and also a tire on the ground by the tent. An...
2024-04-30
View from the top of the dam showing water streaming from the outlet works of the valve house on the Arizona side. Also shows the Colorado River, the valve house on the Nevada side, the tops of the Arizona and Nevada power houses, and a road along...

Several weathered-looking wooden buildings sit in the desert. There are mountains in the background. There are trees including one large one near the buildings.

This color transparency shows Hoover Dam at night, looking upstream. Electric lights illuminate the dam. The power house is visible and the transmission towers can be seen above the dam.

View from downstream on the Colorado River of Hoover Dam. Water is discharging from the outlet works of the Arizona valve house on the right. The Nevada valve house and power house are seen on the left.

Close-up view of a spillway at Hoover Dam during construction. Hoisting machinery is visible on the mountain above.

Unbound field book written by Carl F. Nordin containing a drainage manual, bibliography reference information, as well as notes about people he called and talked to
1988-04-30
2007-01-02
2007-01-02
Color transparency of the downstream face of Hoover Dam. This panoramic view shows the portals of the diversion tunnels, the power house, the walls of Black Canyon, and the Colorado River.

This is a photograph of a blueprint which shows the general layout of Hoover Dam. The photo includes a sectional elevation on center line of the river. Blueprint shows the dam, power plant, upper and lower cofferdam, intake towers, outlet works,...

A view of the Colorado River flowing through Black Canyon (not Boulder). In the foreground are air compressors and an open sided shed with a construction worker standing inside. There are tracks running along side of the shed following the path of...
2024-04-30
Photo shows water spewing from the outlet works of Hoover Dam. A portion of the power house is also visible.

This is a summary of an address given by Dr. George B. Maxey, Director, Center for Water Resources Research, University of Nevada, to a group of Southern Nevada business and community leaders at the Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas on May 16, 1968.
1968-05-16
This is a summary of an address given by Dr. George B. Maxey, Director, Center for Water Resources Research, University of Nevada, to a group of Southern Nevada business and community leaders at the Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas on May 16, 1968.
1968-05-16
This study evaluates the socioeconomic impacts of the Second Stage of the Southern Nevada Water Project of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, comparing that project with the alternatives of importing water from Nevada areas somewhat removed...
1975-08-01
The rock formations of the earth are great natural reservoirs in which a part of the water derived from rain and snow is stored. Water levels and artesian pressure in wells register the stages of these natural reservoirs. The changes in water...
1947-01-01
This study evaluates the socioeconomic impacts of the Second Stage of the Southern Nevada Water Project of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, comparing that project with the alternatives of importing water from Nevada areas somewhat removed...
1975-08-01
The rock formations of the earth are great natural reservoirs in which a part of the water derived from rain and snow is stored. Water levels and artesian pressure in wells register the stages of these natural reservoirs. The changes in water...
1947-01-01
Manuscripts, correspondence, films, photographs, slides, and outdoor recreation and travel literature chiefly concerning hunting and fishing.; Leslie Lee Richardson was born in the small mining town of Wardner, Idaho, on April 3, 1898,...

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