[Construction of Boulder Dam, Boulder City, Nevada: Rigger on cableway headtower during erection] – Historic Print
![[Construction of Boulder Dam, Boulder City, Nevada: Rigger on cableway headtower during erection], 1934 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6e/6e0e7c8b485e-L.webp)
(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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[Construction of Boulder Dam, Boulder City, Nevada: Rigger on cableway headtower during erection]
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A rigger perched on the steel headtower of a cableway, shown while the structure was still going up, sets this print apart from other views of the dam site. Cableways like this one carried concrete buckets and materials across the canyon of the Colorado River, and their towers rose on the canyon rims as Boulder Dam took shape in 1934. The photograph comes from a portfolio prepared for Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, whose department oversaw the project. It was later reproduced in *Eyes of the Nation*, a visual history of the United States.
| Created / published | 1934 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | In 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. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Dam construction--1930-1940. Towers--1930-1940. Construction workers--1930-1940. Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,203 × 1,494 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218691 |
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