Dworshak Dam Project 118 (coffer dam)

Photograph shows the truck road at dam. Trucks haul big stuff for Coffer dam.

1965-05-18

page 200

Aerial view of Hoover Dam and surrounding area

Aerial view of Hoover Dam and the surrounding area showing the downward face of the dam, the intake towers, Lake Mead and a portion of the Colorado River. Water is flowing from the outlet works.

Dworshak Dam Project 112 (cleared area)

Photograph of clearing work at the site. A machine can be seen going up the steep hillside. The little piles of refuse will be burned. First all merchantable timber was removed.

1964-05-18

page 1-4

Press release about proposed expenditures from bond issue, Clark County, Nevada, 1953

News announcement release of the Las Vegas Valley Water District's spending plans for money raised from a $8,700,000 bond issue. The list was compiled by the district consulting engineer, James M. Montgomery and included improvement projects and...

2024-05-18

Dworshak Dam Project 105 (spillway)

Photograph showing part of spillway and trestle work on too laying concrete.

1972-05-18

Map showing proposed improvements of Las Vegas Springs, Las Vegas, Nev. / L.A. &...

Map showing the locations of the Las Vegas Springs and the proposed improvements to them for the municipal water system

1918-01-26

Dworshak Dam Project 1 (1963)

Aerial view of what the country at the dam site looked like before any construction. Note on back: ""This is Bruce's Eddy, the first name of the dam. Later it was changed and the name by Congressional action became Dworshak, after Senator...

1963-05-18

page 11

Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. M. Jeffers (Omaha), August 26, 1935

General overview of the Las Vegas water situation, covering possible municipal ownership, the Las Vegas Springs, irrigation on the Las Vegas Ranch, and more.

1935-08-26

A Plan to Transport Surplus Columbia River Basin Water to the Arid Pacific Northwest

Document: "Snake-Colorado Project, A Plan to Transport Surplus Columbia River Basin Water to the Arid Southwest", October, 1963, page 8

1963-10-01

Dworshak Dam Project 90 (diversion tunnel)

Telephoto shot taken in July looking down at the mouth of diversion tunnel and fish catching facility.

1968-07-01

S. 294 In the Senate of the United States

Document: 89th Congress, 1st Session, S.294, January 6, 1965, page 1

1965-01-06

Dworshak Dam Project 82 (compressor house)

Photograph taken in May. Shown is compressor house & contractors shops where the equipment was repaired. Will be flooded when dam finished.

1968-05-01

page 15

page 3-153

Photograph of salvage crew on a raft in St. Thomas, June 1938

Salvage crew on a raft near the ruins of a building in the town of St. Thomas as Lake Mead submerges it.

1938-06-01

Dworshak Dam Project 74 (Color photo of dam)

As the dam looked on April 26. About 100 ft. to go.

1971-04-26

Photograph of Fort Callville, Nevada, before 1935

Photo of Fort Callville and corrals.

Dworshak Dam Project 67 (Aerial view before construction)

Aerial view of site before anything happened

2024-05-18

page 85

Photograph of the top of the St. Thomas, Nevada school, Lake Mead, circa June, 1938

The remains of the St. Thomas school building about to disappear under the waters of Lake Mead.

2024-05-18

Letter Concerning Marble and Bridge Canyon Dams

Letter: To Mr Svendsen, Draft, 1965 (carbon copy), page 2

1965-05-18

Dworshak Dam Project 58 (Army men)

Mr. Curtis & three Army men visit the project on Aug. 19

1965-08-19