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Title: Diversion and spillway tunnels at Hoover Dam
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Originally named Boulder Dam, it was renamed Hoover Dam in 1946. In these tunnel pictures water will come down from the incline spillway tunnel at the upper left into the diversion tunnel. At the end of the diversion tunnel is the "plug" which will divert the water into the penstock tunnels.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00009878
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Reservoirs-Hoover Dam.; A-002-540.2 4x5
CARL0000011687
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84461
Subject: Dams--Arizona
Dams--Nevada
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)

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