Notes
MS 23
Elizabeth Atkinson Collection
inventory
[2 boxes (one with files, one with a scrapbook)]
Box 1 of 2
folder no.
1. correspondence [1991-94 (with biographical stories)]
2. correspondence [1995]
3. correspondence [1999-2000]
4. memoir: "From the Texas Panhandle to the Nevada Desert
in 1930-31"
Box 2 of 2
[scrapbook (page no./item no.)]
loose item: xeroxed program from performances of the Boulder City
Little Theatre Group, March 1-2, 1945
1.a. color portrait of Herbert Hoover
1.b. Hoover Dam medal "to commemorate the starting of the
$165,000,000 Boulder Canyon Project" [(in envelope) 1931]
2. color picture of Hoover Dam with water running through the Nevada
diversion tunnel [c. 1940s]
3. illustrated map: "A Conception of the Boulder Dam Area and Las
Vegas Valley, Nevada" [c. 1929-30]
4.a. clipping [photo]: "Site of Boulder City, 1931"
4.b. clipping [photo]: "Black Canyon Boulder Damsite, May 1931"
4.c. clipping [photo]: Black Canyon
4.d. clipping [photo]: "Blasting Rock in Black Canyon"
4.e. clipping [photo]: "High scaling operations on canyon walls during
the period of excavation for the dam and its accessory features"
4.f. clipping [photo]: "Rugged Country Man Harnessed Colorado
River"
4.g. photograph: long shot of Black Canyon, roads, and railroads
5.a. clipping: "Waters of Boulder Dam to Destroy America's First
Great City" [Lost City in the Moapa Valley]
5.b. brochure: "Boulder Canyon Project [Hoover] Dam ... " [c. 1930-32]
5.c. clipping: "Small Modern City to Be Built for Boulder Dam
Workers"
5.d. clipping [photo]: "Dam Under Construction in 1933"
6.a. clipping [photo]: "Dredges and Steam Shovels Rake River Bed for
Foundation"
6.b. clipping [photo]: "Where River'll Dive Underground" [diversion
tunnels]
6.c. clipping [photo]: "Pour First Concrete for Boulder Dam Base"
[1933]
6.d. clipping: "Gail First Woman to See Boulder Tunnels" [film star
Gail Patrick; c. 1935]
6.e. clipping [photo]: "Construction Scene in 56-foot Diversion Bore"
7.a. clipping [photo]: "Pneumatic drills like this prepare the way for
blasting away great masses of stone"
7.b. clipping: "Largest Party of Sightseers to Visit Black Canyon, 144
Carloads, 572 Persons Make Trek Thru Huge Tunnel Friday"
7.c. brochure: "Tourist Guide/Scenic Short Trips/From/Las Vegas,
Nev./Gateway To/Boulder Dam ..." [1933]
7.d. clipping [photo]: "Emery's Falls, 83 miles above the Boulder Dam,
on Boulder Lake"
8.a. clipping [map]: "Just 328 miles from Los Angeles the world's
greatest engineering project, Hoover Dam, is rapidly nearing
completion ... "
8.b. clipping [column]: "Will Rogers Says" [re: visit to the dam site and
first appearance of the anecdote of the fired worker who walked
out of the canyon and said, "I hope it leaks."]
8.c. photograph: Black Canyon with the dam structure rising [c.
1933-34]
9.a. clipping: Harold Anderson offers three free meals at the mess hall
and one free night in the Boulder Dam Hotel through an
advertisement in the Reno Gazette [c. 1934]
9.b. clipping [photo]: tourist cars overlooking Hoover Dam [December
9, 1934]
9.c. clipping [photo]: "Hoover Dam Rises"
10.a. clipping [photo/map]: "Latest Pictures Portray Sensational
Progress Made at Boulder Dam" [Las Vegas Evening
Review-Journal, September 3, 1934]
10.b. clipping [photo]: "Officials on Early Inspection Tour"
10.c. clipping [photo]: "Boss of Construction" [Frank Crowe]
10.d. clipping [photo]: "B. & W. Project Superintendent" [Babcock &
Wilcox Company; Basil T. Kehoe]
11. clipping: "Mighty Colorado River Tamed Today" [Las Vegas
Evening Review-Journal, February 1, 1935]
12.a. clipping [with photo]: "A Concrete Example"
12.b. clipping: "Glare of Light Transforms Dam Into Spectacle"
12.c. clipping [photo]: "Boulder City, Nevada, northeast section" [c.
1934]
12.d. clipping [photo]: penstock pipe section being hoisted into Black
Canyon [c. 1934]
13.a. clipping [photo]: "Where a mighty, unruly river has been
harnessed ... "
13.b. clipping [advertisement]: " 'It's been thrilling to have a part in the
vast enterprise of building Boulder Dam,' says Erwin Jones,
Boulder Dam Engineer.' " [this is an advertisement for Camel
cigarettes]
14.a. clipping [photo]: "Like Flies on a Wall" [workers suspended by
ropes on the upstream face of the dam]
14.b. clipping [photo]: "Hoover Dam as viewed from a high point
up-stream on the Arizona rim of Black Canyon" [c. 1935]
14.c. clipping [photo]: "Transporting a 30-foot steel pipe section ... "
14.d. clipping [photo]: "Guard Against Lightning"
15.a. pamphlet: "Los Angeles Speeds Preparations to Receive Boulder
Dam Power" [(Los Angeles) City-Owned Department of Water
and Power Official Bulletin, v. 2:5 (May 1934)]
15.b. clipping [photo]: "Huge Lanterns Light Boulder Dam" [lighting
standards for the tops of the intake towers]
15.c. clipping [photo]: erecting a transmission line
15.d. clipping [photo]: lowering the first steel bulkhead over the
diversion tunnel to cut off the flow of the Colorado River and
begin the rising of Lake Mead [1935] [this item also includes the
caption for item 15.c.]
16.a. clipping: "Shrine Dam Ritual Awes" [Shriners ceremony, n.d.]
16.b. photograph: Hoover Dam structure and intake towers under
construction [c. 1934-35]
16.c. clipping [photos accompanying item 16.a.]: "Scenes at Hoover
Dam Shrine Ceremonial"
17.a. clipping [photo]: hoisting a penstock pipe section
17.b. clipping [photo]: "30-foot diameter penstock pipe section being
taken into the canyon over the 150-ton capacity cableway"
17.c. clipping [photo]: "Largest Electric Switches"
17.d. clipping [photo]: men standing on top of a power generator
turbine
17.e. clipping [photo]: "Scout car alongside some of the big penstock
pipes"
18.a. clipping [photo]: "Hoover Dam Inspected By House Group" [U.
S. House of Representatives, Six Companies and Union Pacific
Railroad officials on a cableway skip looking over Lake Mead as a
landing area for navy seaplanes]
18.b. clipping: "Posts Back with Rogers" [Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Post
and Will Rogers]
18.c. clipping [photo]: "Immensity of the Tunnels" [diversion tunnels]
18.d. clipping: "Engineers Urge Name Hoover Dam" [American
Association of Engineers at their annual meeting (November 7,
193?) urge that the dam be called Hoover rather than Boulder in
honor of Herbert Hoover, "America's foremost engineer" who
"was highly instrumental in [the dam's] initiation"]
18.e. clipping [column]: "Will Rogers Says" [flew over Lake Mead with
Wiley Post; related to item 18.b.]
18.f. clipping: "Strike at Hoover Dam Held Near Settlement" [July
1935]
19.a. clipping [photo]: "Work on Hoover Dam Project as It Progressed
in 1934"
19.b. clipping [editorial cartoon]: "The Baptism!" [re: rising of Lake
Mead reservoir, 1935]
20. clipping [rotogravure photo]: aerial view across the dam site from
upstream
21. clippings [front and back, with photos]: "Man's Genius and Daring
Built Into Every Block Laid at Dam" and "Loaded Freight Train
1065 Miles Long Would Hold Materials in Boulder Dam"
22.a. clipping [with photo]: "400,000 Visitors to See Dam in 1935"
22.b. clipping [photo]: "Ugh! Ugh! Heap Big Dam!" [Mohave Indian
tribesmen, wearing feather headdresses for a Union Pacific
Railroad publicity photo, view Hoover Dam under construction"
[c. 1935]
23.a. clipping [photo]: "Air View of Hoover Dam As It Looks Today"
23.b. clipping: "Fishing Paradise Planned for Hoover Dam Lake" [Lake
Mead]
23.c. clipping [photo]: "Great Lake Behind Dam Now Mecca for Water
Sport Fans"
24.a. clipping [photo]: "Roadway Across Dam Opened for Dedication"
[1935]
24.b. clipping [photo]: Lake Mead rising behind the dam [1935]
24.c. Boulder Canyon Project visitors pass [front and back dated
March 17, 1935]
24.d. clipping [photo]: "Colorado Fast Taking On Appearance of
Inland Sea" [1935]
25. clipping: Charles Owens' full-page illustration of the Hoover Dam
construction site and surrounding area [Los Angeles Times, n. d.
(part of the page has come loose and is tucked inside the scrapbook
at p. 25]
26. clipping: "Hoover Dam As It Nears Completion—from the latest
sketch by Charles Owens" [Los Angeles Times, n. d.]
27.a. clipping [photo]: "Uncle Sam's Engineer" [Walker R. Young]
27.b. clipping: "30,000 Bass are Now En Route to Future Home by
Truck, Revealed" [stocking Lake Mead]
27.c. clipping: "River Pouring 100,000 Second Feet of Water Into Lake
Now"
27.d. clipping: "Mountain at Boulder Will Be an Island" [Horseshoe
Mountain in Lake Mead's bed]
27.e. clipping [letter to the editor]: "The Right Name" [from Grace
Lewis in favor of naming the dam Hoover rather than Boulder
(Los Angeles Times, September 24?, 1935)]
27.f. clipping: "Surface of Lake Behind Dam to be 227 Square Miles"
28. clipping: "Current Comment" [collection of small articles
commenting on Hoover Dam's name]
29.a. clipping: "Rush Hoover Dam Work; Completion Date Is Set"
29.b. liability release form [required to be signed by Six Companies
employees releasing the company, the Nevada Industrial
Commission, and the Industrial Commission of Arizona from
liability payments for employees with a pre-existing illness or
defect which they might try to blame on their employment at
Hoover Dam]
30.a. clipping: "World's Largest Electric Equipment Will Be Placed in
Boulder Dam Powerhouse"
30.b. clipping [photo]: "Lights and Shadows at Hoover Dam" [view of
the Arizona intake towers from the surface of Lake Mead]
31.a. clipping [photo]: "Aquaplaning Latest Sport on Lake at Hoover
Dam"
31.b. clipping: "Dam Lake Thot to Have Hit '35 High Level"
31.c. clipping [photo]: "Hoover Dam at San Diego Exposition" [Los
Angeles Bureau of Power and Light exhibit at the California Pacific
International show]
32.a. clipping [photo]: "First Woman Licensed to Operate Hoover Dam
Boats" [Ruth Hilty, former Arizona school teacher]
32.b. clipping [photo]: " 'Going My Way?' " [Lyla Bodell, daughter of
Six Companies chief special agent Glen E. "Bud" Bodell with
James Cashman]
33.a. clipping: "The Amazing Story of Boulder Dam," by Mel Wharton
[no citation]
33.b. clipping [photo]: "Times—Auburn Party Stop to View Rugged
Scenery as They Near the Dam"
34. clipping [photo]: "Lake Now Forming back of Hoover Dam ... "
35.a. clipping [photo]: downstream view of Hoover Dam under
construction
35.b. clipping [photo]: downstream view of Hoover Dam under
construction
35.c. clipping [photo]: "Times-Auburn Scout Car at Boulder City"]
36.a. clipping [photo]: "How Hoover Dam Will Look Eventually"
36.b. clipping [photo]: "Hoover Dam When Completed"
36.c. tourist decal: "Chamber of Commerce/Las Vegas, Nevada/Boulder
Canyon Project [Hoover] Dam"
36.d. clipping with postage stamp: "Completion of Boulder Dam ... is
marked by issuance of a new stamp ... " [1935]
36.e. clipping: "River Above Hoover Dam Expands to Mighty Lake"
36.f. clipping: "Third Transformer Arrives in Boulder"
37.a. clipping [photo]: aerial view of Lake Mead rising behind Hoover
Dam and Black Canyon
37.b. clipping [photo]: "20,000 People Expected to Hear President
Roosevelt Dedicate Giant Structure" [on September 30, 1935]
38.a. clipping [map]: Colorado River Basin Below Boulder Dam"
[Bureau of Reclamation map no. 26997 (1935)]
38.b. clipping: "Not a Toy Lake"
38.c. clipping [photo]: "A Colorado River Landmark" [The Temple at
Temple Bar]
38.d. clipping: "Huge Switches Built to Rule Boulder Power"
39.a. brochure: "Boulder Dam and Las Vegas, Nevada/Center of the
Scenic Southwest" [c. 1937-38]
39.b. clipping [photo]: "Every Night is Fourth of July at Boulder Dam"
[night scene of construction]
40.a. clipping: "Dedication Plans Laid"
40.b. clipping [editorial cartoon]: Uncle Sam looking Roosevelt's
shoulder as he, Roosevelt, works on his dam dedication speech,
whispering, "Psst! It's Spelled H-O-O-V-E-R."
40.c. clipping: "Death Valley and Boulder Dam"
41.a. clipping: "Thousands Due at Dam" [for dedication]
41.b. flier: "Information for the Guidance of Visitors" [during dam
dedication]
41.c. clipping [photo]: "Roosevelt Dedicates Boulder Dam"
42.a. clipping: "Job Aid End Seen at Dam"
42.b. clipping [editorial cartoon]: "The Gateway of an Empire!" [the
Great Southwest in the guise of a woman in a tunic hoists a flag
which reads, "Hoover Dam/Dedicated Sept. 30, 1935" (Los
Angeles Times?, September 30, 1935]
42.c. clipping [letter to the editor]: W. M. Bristol favors "Lake Hoover"
as the reservoir's name [Los Angeles Times, n. d. (October ?,
1935)]
43. clipping [photo]: "Outlines Vast Benefits of Hoover Dam at
Dedication"
44.a. clipping [letters to the editor]: several letters complaining that
Hoover wasn't given credit for Hoover Dam at the dedication
ceremonies
44.b. clipping [photo]: "Finishing Touches Being Given to Hoover
Dam"
44.c. clipping: "Historic Pipe Goes Into Bore" [penstock]
44.d. clipping: "2,487 Persons on Job at Dam" [no citation; October 25,
1935]
44.e. clipping [letter to the editor]: chides the Los Angeles Times editor
for suggesting the dam be named for Herbert Hoover [Los Angeles
Times, c. October ?, 1930]
45.a. clipping [photo]: "One Freight Hoboes Won't Hop" [loaded steel
boxcar being lowered into Black Canyon (also see 47.c. and 56.a.)]
45.b. clipping: "Cranes Being Installed in Intake Towers"
45.c. clipping: "Dam Power Will Be Ready About Middle of March"
45.d. clipping: "Boulder Lake Still Decreasing Today" [no citation;
October 25, 1935]
45.e. clipping [photo]: transmission tower and section of the copper
transmission cable with caption
46.a. clipping: "Road Over Dam is 'Officially' Opened Tuesday"
46.b. clipping [photo]: "Hoover Dam Today"
46.c. clipping [photo]: "Recent View of Hoover Dam"
46.d. clipping: "Dam Slide Gate is Closed Today"
47.a. clipping [photo]: "Not China Wall—It's Boulder Dam" [aerial
view of Hoover Dam crest and Arizona highway snaking up the
canyon wall]
47.b. clipping: "Nevada Penstock Tunnel Okehed After Hard Test" [no
citation; January 6, 1936]
47.c. clipping [photo]: "A Box Car On A Flying Trapeze" [same photo
as 45.a.; also see 56.a.]
48.a. post card [color, linen]: "Arizona Spillway and Highway Bridge,
Boulder Dam"
48.b. clipping [column]: "From Where I Sit," by A. E. Cahlan [re:
water releases through the needle valves; Las Vegas Evening
Review-Journal, May ?, 1936]
48.c. clipping [photo]: "Working on Generator Rotor"
48.d. clipping: "Roof is Done on Powerhouse"
49.a. clipping [column]: "From Where I Sit," by A. E. Cahlan [re:
movement of the dam structure; filling Lake Mead; turbine
installation; Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, n. d.]
49.b. brochure: "Official Boulder Dam Films" [Boulder Dam Service
Bureau, c. 1936-37]
49.c. clipping: "Important Jobs at Dam Finished"
50.a. clipping: "Hoover Dam: Completion of Giant Barrier Opens New
Era for Southwest" [Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1936]
51.a. clipping: "Mountain Sheep Colony, On Lonely Isle in Dam Lake,
Planned by Las Vegans" [also see 54.a. and 66.c.]
51.b. clipping: "1,900 Working on Boulder Project, Figures Reveal"
51.c. clipping [with photo and illustration]: "Man-Made Lake to
Transform Desert" [Los Angeles Times?, January 2, 1936]
51.d. clipping: "World's Biggest Pipe is Being Fabricated at Boulder
Plant"
52.a. clipping [photo]: "Hoover Dam ... "
52.b. clipping: "Boulder Dam is Tops in Feats of Engineering"
52.c. photograph: view upstream toward Hoover Dam under
construction with the Colorado River running through one of the
Nevada diversion tunnels
53-54. clipping: "Hoover Dam Dedication To Open New Era in West"
54.a. clipping [photo]: "Mead Lake Sultan" [mountain sheep trapped
on an island as Lake Mead rises (also see 51.a. and 66.c.)]
54.b. clipping: "Regatta at Hoover Dam"
55.a. clipping [photo]: "Outlet Pipes Installed at Hoover Dam" [no
citation; January 22, 1936]
55.b. clipping: "Colorado River is Decreasing in Flow"
55.c. clipping: "Penstock System to Be Open Soon"
55.d. clipping: John C. Page is named acting commissioner of the
Bureau of Reclamation
56.a. clipping [photo]: "Box-Car Lowered By Giant Cables" [also see
45.a. and 47.c.]
56.b. clipping: "Outlet Works to Spout Water for First Time Today"
56.c. clipping [editorial]: "Arizona Lauds Boulder Dam"
57.a. clipping: "Boulder Dam Turned Over to U. S. Today" [Las Vegas
Evening Review-Journal?, February 29, 1936]
57.b. clipping [photo]: "Boulder Starts Its Own Niagara" [canyon wall
outlet works/needle valves in operation]
58.a. clipping [photo]: "Uncle Sam's Hoover Dam: Government Takes
Delivery On Structure"
58.b. clipping [with photo]: "World's Largest Fish Pond: Bass Placed in
Hatchery" [Las Vegas fish hatchery located "three miles
northwest of here"]
58.c. clipping [photo]: "Napoleon's Tomb on Boulder lake 43 miles
from Hoover Dam"
58.d. clipping: "Powerhouse Walls Being Plastered"
59. clipping [photo]: "Great Engineering Feat Graphically Shown From
Air" [with needle valves in operation]
60.a. clipping: "World's Greatest Dam Offers Thrilling Sight" [Los
Angeles Times, March 15, 1936]
60.b. clipping [photo]: "Looking down on the highway across top of
dam from the Arizona side ... "
60.c. clipping: "Size Doubled by Lake Mead"
61.a. clipping [advertisement with photos]: "Sail the Fjords of Lake
Mead"
61.b. clipping [photo and map]: route of U. S. 91 from Hoover Dam to
Kingman, Arizona, then U. S. 66 from Kingman to Barstow,
California; also, "Sandstone Cliffs Six Miles Above the Dam"]
62.a. clipping [photo]: "At Bottom of Canyon Below Dam" [with
Arizona needle valves in operation]
62.b. clipping [photo]: "Boat Landing Where Visitors Leave for Trip
Up the Lake Behind the Dam ... "
63.a. poem [typescript with newspaper photograph glued at the top of
the page to illustrate the piece]: "The Workers of Boulder Dam,"
by Emma Welch
64.a. clipping [photo]: "Huge Hoover Dam Makes Speedboat Look
Like Minnow"
64.b. clipping [photo]: "The First Official to Cross From Nevada to
Arizona atop the gigantic Boulder dam ... " [photo of Walker
Young, James Cashman, Frank Crowe, and Walter Bracken; n. d.]
65.a. clipping [photo]: Arizona needle valves in operation
65.b. clipping [photo]: "Boulder Dam—A Triumph in Engineering"
65.c. clipping: "Boulder Dam is In Technicolor"
65.d. clipping: "Hoover Dam Valves Used" [needle valves]
65.e. clipping [schematic]: depicts how Hoover Dam operates
66.a. clipping [headline with photo]: "10,000 Attend Regatta Races at
Boulder Lake/More Outboard Races on Boulder Lake Soon"
66.b. clipping: "Land for Lake Bought by U. S"
66.c. clipping [headline with photo]: "Boulder Lake Sultan is Shot
Down by Fiend" [big-horn sheep trapped on island shot to death
(also see 51.a. and 54.a.)]
66.d. clipping: "Boulder Lake to Be Half Full at the End of 1936"
66.e. clipping: "Dam Powerhouses Are About Finished"
67.a. clipping: "Diversion Bore Number One to Be Plugged Soon"
67.b. clipping [advertisement]: "Boulder Dam" [1936 Warner Brothers
film with Ross Alexander and Patricia Ellis (also see 67.d.)]
67.c. clipping [photo]: "Puzzle: Find the Man" [man standing at the
bottom of the Arizona spillway beneath the highway bridge]
67.d. clipping: "Movies" [review of Boulder Dam (see 67.b.)]
68.a. brochure: "Apache Hotel" [Las Vegas, c. 1936-38]
68.b. clipping [photo]: "At Finish of Tough Grind" [RKO film star Erik
Rhodes swims from the Regatta Bay (Boulder Beach) boat landing
to the upstream face of Hoover Dam; in the boat: Nevada Lt.
Governor Fred Alward and Jim Cashman]
68.c. clipping: "Powerhouse Equipment is 65 Percent In"
68.d. clipping [photo]: "Famed Landmark Is No More" [Old Lookout
Point above the dam site]
68.e. clipping: "Olympic Crews May Race On Dam Lake"
69.a. clipping [with map]: "Hoover Dam Included in New Air Hop"
[proposed TWA (Transcontinental and Western Airways)
passenger and express route passes over Hover Dam and Lake
Mead]
69.b. clipping [cartoon strip]: "Napoleon and Uncle Elby" [Boulder
Dam punch line]
69.c. clipping: "Pioneer Dam Engineer Will Leave Boulder" [Wilbur A.
Dexheimer]
69.d. clipping [photo]: switchyard transformers
70.a. clipping [editorial]: "As Arizona Views Boulder Dam Now!"
70.b. clipping: "Kingman to Dam Road Okehed By Arizonans"
70.c. clipping: "Steel Buckets Play Big Part in Dam Project"
[8-cubic-yard concrete buckets (article incomplete)]
70.d. clipping: "Hoover Dam's Reservoir Rises Two Feet Per Day"
70.e. clipping: "Aerial Survey of Reservoir Finished"
70.f. clipping [photo]: "Pouring the Two Millionth Yard" [of concrete]
70.g. clipping: "Aid to Fishing in Dam Lake to Be Sifted Here"
71.a. clipping [with photo]: "Dam Viewed from Plane"
71.b. clipping: "Colorado River Flow Declining"
71.c. clipping [one-panel cartoon]: "Out Our Way" [Boulder Dam
punch line (1936)]
71.d. business card for the Busy Bee Cafe in Las Vegas with "History
of Las Vegas and the Great Boulder Dam" on the back
71.e. photograph: needle valves in operation [c. 1936]
72.a. clipping: "Camera Records Three Stages ... " [in construction of
the needle valves for Hoover Dam]
72.b. clipping [column]: "From Where I Sit," by A. E. Cahlan [Cahlan
takes a trip to see Arizona's Roosevelt Dam]
72.c. clipping [photo]: "The Roosevelt Dam ... "
72.d. clipping: "Penstock Tests at Dam Are Successful"
72.e. clipping [column]: "From Where I Sit," by A. E. Cahlan [in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, Cahlan finds a man who worked two
years on Hoover Dam and returned to Chattanooga to open am
automobile service station]
72.f. clipping [photo]: "And Here's the 'Permanent' Vista at Boulder
Dam" [aerial shot with Nevada needle valves in operation]
73.a. clipping [photo]: "Huge Transformers Installed"
73.b. clipping: "Illumination of One Dam Face to Be Finished Soon"
[aesthetic lighting of the downstream face of the dam]
73.c. clipping: "World's Largest P ... at Boulder D[am]" [penstock
pipes]
73.d. clipping [photo]: "Airplane View of Cathedral Rock Near Hoover
Dam"
74a. clipping: "Dam Needle Valves Open Noon Friday" [Friday,
September 11, 1936 (Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal?,
Tuesday, September 8, 1936]
74.b. clipping [photo]: "Touch of Button Starts Hoover Dam
Generators" [Franklin Roosevelt touches the button that starts
the generator that supplies power to Hoover Dam on September
11, 1936]
75.a. clipping: "Thousands Awed by Water Show" [September 11,
1936 operation of the needle valves]
75.b. photograph: Hoover Dam needle valves in operation on
September 11, 1936
75.c. clipping: "Mead Plaque is Unveiled Today at Boulder Dam in
Simple Ceremonies" [dedication of the memorial plaque honoring
Elwood Mead on Lookout Point overlooking Lake Mead (article
incomplete)]
75.d. clipping: "19,245 Visitors Check Into dam Area On Holiday"
[three-day Memorial Day weekend, 1936]
76.a. clipping: "Babcock, Wilcox to Complete Job On August 15th"
[1936]
76.b. photograph: close-up of Nevada diversion tunnel spewing
Colorado River water
76.c. clipping: "Dam Generator is Given Test"
76.d. clipping: "Lake Floods Rout Animals"
76.e. clipping: "Boulder Dam Mess Hall Serves Last Meal of 8,212,500
Last Night"
76.f. clipping [photo]: crest of Hoover Dam at dusk with road lights
76.g. clipping: "Old Landmark at Boulder Dam is Being Razed Now"
[lower portal bridge—may become part of the "deal for
equipment about to be consummated between Six Companies
Incorporated and the Japanese Imperial government"]
77.a. clipping [with photo]: "Dam Power Comes to Las Vegas T ... "
[Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, March 12, 1937]
77.b. post card [black-and-white, real photo]: aerial view from
downstream perspective of Hoover Dam with the Nevada needle
valves in operation]
78.a. clipping [photo]: "New Boulder Dam Play Area"
78.b. clipping: "Canyon Trip is Continued By Explorers" [Norman
Nevills expedition (July 14, 1938)]
78.c. clipping [photo]: "Archbold's $250,000 Seaplane on One of His
Jaunts to Lake Mead and Hoover Dam"
79.a. clipping [photo]: "Huge Power Plant Ready"
79.b. clipping [photo]: "Lamp to Use Hoover Dam Power"
[30,000-candle power light bulb to be lit during the ceremonies
marking arrival of Hoover Dam power in Los Angeles]
79.c. clipping [with photo]: "Great Lights to Flood City at Hoover
Dam Power Fete" [arrival of Hoover Dam power in Los Angeles]
80.a. clipping: "Blazing Arc to Light Skies" [arrival of Hoover Dam
power in Los Angeles]
80.b. photograph: "downstream face of Hoover Dam"
80.c. clipping [editorial cartoon]: "This is Our Shadow's Night Off!"
[re: arrival of Hoover Dam power in Los Angeles]
81.a. clipping: "First Boulder Dam Power Goes Over the Wire to Los
Angeles Last Night"
81.b. clipping [photo]: "Hoover Dam Picture Gets Final Touches" [to
serve as backdrop in Los Angeles for Hoover Dam power
inaugural ceremonies]
81.c. photograph: Hoover Dam at night showing illuminated intake
towers
82.a. clipping [photo]: "Atop 115,000 Horses" [people posed on top
of a Hoover Dam power generator (hand-written notation: "Jack
Weiler [Dottie's father] ranger in picture above") ]
82.b. clipping: "Boulder Dam to Be Lighted for First Time This
Evening" [aesthetic lighting]
82.c. photograph: night view of Hoover Dam with its downstream face
lighted
82.d. visitors decal: "Boulder Dam" [with narrative of the dam's
purpose]
82.e. clipping [photo]: "Huge Rotor for Los Angeles Power"
83.a. photograph: upstream view of rising Lake Mead taken from
across the Arizona spillway
83.b. photograph: Lake Mead
83.c. post card [black-and-white, real photo, "little"]: "Power Line
Leading From Boulder Dam to Los Angeles"
83.d. post card [black-and-white, real photo, "little"]: "Lake Mead
Entrance to Grand Canyon Eighty Miles from Boulder Dam"
83.e. post card [black-and-white, real photo, "little"]: "Arizona
Spillway Boulder Dam"
84.a. photograph: night view of Hoover Dam with aesthetic lighting on
the downstream face
84.b. clipping [photos]: Lake Mead recreation; inauguration of TWA
flights to the Boulder City airport on April 3, 1938
84.c. clipping [photo]: "The Joshua Tree, strange and beautiful desert
growth"
84.d. clipping [photo]: "Reconstructed Lost City Indian houses at the
Overton Museum"
84.e. clipping [photo]: "Bathers on Shore of Lake Mead"
85. clipping [color photo]: "Lake Mead"
86.a. clipping [schematic]: "How Boulder Dam Works ... "
86.b. clipping [photo]: "Lower reaches of the Grand Canyon ... " [this
photo was used in Bureau of Reclamation brochures about
Boulder Dam and the Boulder Dam Recreational Area in the late
1930s]
87. clipping [color photo]: crest of Hoover Dam and the hills beyond
88. poem [typescript]: "Boulder Dam," by May S... [truncated due to length]![*Click on image for content.: MS.23 - Box 2 of 2: [scrapbook (page no./item no.)]](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/4452/4c980360-7eb0-11f0-a046-1182aa590333-v37OPlc.lg@2x.jpg)
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