Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | Gas-air shovel caught in the flooded Colorado River |
Publisher | University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries |
Date | 1932-02-10 |
Description | A stranded gas-air shovel is seen standing in the flooding of the Colorado River riverbed during construction on Hoover Dam. The mouth of one of the diversion tunnels is seen in the canyon wall in the background. Other construction equipment lies overturned in the river bed. |
Subject | Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) -- Design and construction; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Construction equipment; Diversion tunnels; Power shovels Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) -- Design and construction; Construction equipment; Tunnels; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); |
Format | image/jp2 20076 KB |
Type | Still Image |
Relation | http://digital.library.unlv.edu/u?/dig,8 |
Rights | Not to be reproduced without permission. To purchase copies of images and/or for copyright information, contact University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries, Special Collections at: http://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/ |
Identifier | http://digital.library.unlv.edu:81/u?/lv_water,153 |