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Title: Future site of Hoover Dam
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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. Here we are looking at the Colorado River flowing through Boulder Canyon at what would be the future site of Hoover Dam. This is another view looking downstream at the Black Rock site. The river is about 280 feet wide at this point.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00009799
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Reservoirs-Hoover Dam.; A-002-531.6 4x5
CARL0000011574
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/83865
Subject: Dams--Arizona
Dams--Nevada
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)

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