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[Construction of Boulder Dam, Boulder City, Nevada--Excavating for foundation] – Historic Print

[Construction of Boulder Dam, Boulder City, Nevada--Excavating for foundation], 1934 — historic photograph
[Construction of Boulder Dam, Boulder City, Nevada--Excavating for foundation], 1934. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Excavation for the foundation of Boulder Dam, shown here in a 1934 print from a portfolio compiled for Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, catches the work at its most basic stage: clearing and cutting into the canyon floor before any concrete could be poured. The portfolio, with photographs by B.D. Glaha of Boulder City, was meant to document the project's progress for the department that oversaw it. Work on the dam, later renamed Hoover Dam, was among the largest federal construction efforts of the Depression years, and images like this show the heavy equipment and crews that made the Colorado River crossing possible.

Created / published1934
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesIn album: Boulder Dam: a portfolio of photographs prepared for Hon. Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, photographs and format by B.D. Glaha, Boulder City, Nevada, 1934.
SubjectsEquipment--Nevada--Boulder City--1930-1940. Construction workers--Nevada--Boulder City--1930-1940. Dam construction--Nevada--Boulder City--1930-1940. Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,048 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161063

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