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Title
Downstream view from the base of Hoover Dam
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Morris, Ralph
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
This collection includes approximately 40,000 photographs by commercial photographer Ralph Morris, who worked in the Los Angeles area from 1939-1981. His advertising and industrial clients included department stores, restaurants, the automobile and petroleum industries as well as business executives. Also included is the Luckhaus Studio collection of architecture, fashion, the movie industry, sports and street scenes, images which Morris obtained in 1939.
Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam in 1947. The view here is from mid stream at the base of the dam, looking downstream. The power plant is on the left and right in the picture.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00009697
Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Reservoirs-Boulder Dam.; N-006-210.4 4x5
CARL0000011513
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122292
Subject
Dams--Arizona
Dams--Nevada
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)

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