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Title: Black Canyon, site of Hoover Dam
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
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: Entrance to Black Canyon on the Colorado River, chosen as the site for the future Hoover Dam. Originally named Boulder Dam, it was renamed Hoover Dam in 1946. Photo dated: Sept. 19, 1930.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059996
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 114.
CARL0000064237
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23391
Subject: Dams--Arizona
Dams--Nevada
Canyons--Arizona
Canyons--Nevada
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
Black Canyon (Ariz. and Nev.)
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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