[Aerial view of Hoover Dam at Lake Mead] – Antique Photo Print
![[Aerial view of Hoover Dam at Lake Mead], [1948 or 49?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e0/e08759fcf7b5-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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Step back in time with [Aerial view of Hoover Dam at Lake Mead], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Aerial view of Hoover Dam at Lake Mead]
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This aerial view shows Hoover Dam on the Colorado River at the Nevada-Arizona line, with Lake Mead spreading out behind the concrete wall. The dam was built between 1931 and 1936 to control floods, store water, and generate hydroelectric power, and the reservoir it created became the largest in the United States by volume. The print is attributed to the U.S. Air Force, and its date is recorded only as 1948 or 1949, so the exact year of the flight remains uncertain. Even so, it captures the dam's scale against the desert landscape from above, a vantage that was still relatively new for documenting large public works in the late 1940s.
| Created / published | [1948 or 49?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by U.S. Air Force. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Dams; Geogr.; Aerial phot. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,478 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145406 |
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