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Title: Drawings of plans for Hoover Dam
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1926
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. Shown here are 2 diagrams made by the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior showing the measures that had to be taken to deal with the water coming down the Colorado River during the time of construction on the dam. A temporary dam was built up-river, and 4 tunnels, each 50 feet in diameter, plus several smaller tunnels were used to divert the water around the construction site.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00009785
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Reservoirs-Hoover Dam.; N-002-040.1 5x7
CARL0000011554
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/83845
Subject: Dams--Arizona
Dams--Nevada
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
United States.Bureau of Reclamation

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