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Title
McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 095
Contributor
Audrey Fullerton-Samora of Sacramento, great niece of William and Grace McCarthy, donated the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection to the California State Archives in 1996
Date Created and/or Issued
1935
Publication Information
California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Contributing Institution
California State Archives
Collection
McCarthy (William M.) Photograph Collection
Rights Information
© 2017 by the California State Archives, a division of the Secretary of State’s Office. Contact the owner for more information at ArchivesWeb@sos.ca.gov or (916) 653-2246.
Description
Caption: "Boulder Lake [Lake Mead] - as the lake rises the small island will be submerged," c. 1935. Lake Mead was created by the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam, and is the largest man-made reservoir (when full) in the United States.
Type
image
Format
JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier
96-07-08-alb10-095
http://exhibits.sos.ca.gov/items/show/9816
http://exhibits.sos.ca.gov/files/original/c290e80183a357a8363fea696843d543.jpg
Language
English
Subject
Lake Mead, Boulder Dam
Place
Lake Mead, Boulder Dam, Clark County, Nevada, and Mojave County, Arizona
Source
Image of an item within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)

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