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Nevada valve house roof, looking upstream.

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Title Nevada valve house roof, looking upstream.
Publisher University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries
Date 1935-08-27
Description View of the roof of the Nevada valve house during construction. Note the low strength pedestals and the double layer of railroad iron being placed. The face of the dam can be seen in the background at the right. High scaling equipment is visible on the walls of the canyon and there are construction workers on the roof.
Subject Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) -- Design and construction; Valve houses; Construction workers; Construction equipment; High scaling; Iron construction; Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) -- Design and construction; Construction equipment; Construction workers;
Format image/jp2 16815 KB
Type Still Image
Relation http://digital.library.unlv.edu/u?/dig,8
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Identifier http://digital.library.unlv.edu:81/u?/lv_water,471

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