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Title
Boulder Dam
Creator
Dick Whittington Studio
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
"Dick" Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987
Rights Information
Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
For uses other than private, contact USC Libraries Special Collections at the e-mail given
USC Libraries Special Collections
specol@usc.edu
Description
16 photographs of construction of the Hoover Dam, Nevada, 1936. "Subject: Boulder Dam., H-13
Agency: 2nd envelope.
Client: Union Oil Co[mpany].,
Classification: I-construction-Boulder Dam
Original Print Order: 1 #11, 1 #1
Size: 8x10, 11x14, 10x14, 3, 11, 17, 8
Finish: gl[ossy], dull
Re-Order: 1 #11, # 1, 3, 12, 9, 1, 1 #9, 1 #41, 1 #11
Year: 1936
Job: 62-22-173"-- on envelope front. "Name: Joe
18 Original Photographs-Size: 8x10 (2-173), 6, 2-174, 3 Days, #11-West Margins 3/44, 1 #11 Pac Plasties 3/45
Amount: $132.00"-- on envelope back.
Type
image
Format
16 photographs: b&w, negative, 5x7 in. in envelope
B/W Nitrate
5x7 in.
photographs
negatives
Identifier
whit-neh-84956
DW-1936-62-22-173~02...~21
http://doi.org/10.25549/whit-m11311
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/DW-1936-62-22-173~02.jpg
Subject
Building materials
Dams
Bodies of water
Joe
Union Oil Company
Time Period
1936
Place
36.016251,-114.737953
NV
USA
dam sites: Hoover Dam
Source
Job 1936-062-022-173 [Identifying Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]

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