Description
MS 166
Support Collection
container list
Elwood W. Fillmore
[3 boxes]
Box 1 of 3 (w/primary)
item: Unfinished photo album, tan pages, unbound, double hole punched, no cover, 9.5" x 13": top page "Black Canyon in 1922". Nicely presented photographs of Hoover Dam construction, early Boulder City, Babcock & Wilcox plant. Many pages are labeled by hand with subject information and dates. 79 pages; estimated 200+ photographs.
item: photo album -"Scenic and Historical Points of Interest in Clark County, Nevada in the Vicinity of Boulder City"; black, "The First-Central Trust Company" and building logo on front cover. 90+ photos including Valley of Fire, Mt. Charleston, Death Valley, Kelso Sand Dunes, Zion, Cedar Breaks, Hoover construction.
Box 2 of 3 (w/primary)
ff no.
1. Souvenir photobook; “Looking Back: Hoover Dam’s Half Century”, USBR brochure
“Hoover Dam”
2. blueprint, Babcock & Wilcox
3. newspaper clippings, 1935-39
4. USBR booklets, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt Visits Boulder Dam,” 1935 and USBR
internal bulletin, “Information for Guidance of Visitors”.
5. USBR booklet, “ Boulder Dam and Power Plant,” 1933
6. “B & W News,” July 1983. Front page article on Hoover Dam
7. USBR booklet: Reclamation Projects Visited by the Appropriations Committee house
of Representatives, Second trip, 1931
8. USBR booklet: “Boulder Dam Progress,” 1933
P 9. Boulder Theatre Programs, film schedules 1934-1935
P 10. Engineering drawings, “Boulder Canyon Project General Arrangement of Headers,
Penstocks and Conduits,” Babcock & Wilcox
11. “The Story of Hoover Dam,” Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, and Vol. 4, original mailing
envelope correspondence
P 12. program: Memorial Day Services Boulder City Central Labor Council, [May 30,1935]
P 13. “Boulder Canyon Project - Questions and Answers,” June 1, 1934
14. “General Information Concerning the Boulder Dam", USDOI, Office of the
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, July 1, 1933
15. "Boulder Dam", Bulletin S4-A, June 1934, Babcock & Wilcox Co.
16. USBR engineering drawing: “Boulder City, Nevada, Buildings - Water Supply -
Sewerage System,” [June 1, 1952]
17. newspaper clippings: Boulder City Journal - Dedication of Hoover Dam
[September 30, 1935]
18. Engineering News-Record, Hoover Dam Number", Vol. 109, No. 24, [Dec. 15, 1932]
P 19. "Boulder Dam Today: Economic Factors/Technical Phases", reprinted from
Engineering News-record, [February 6, 1930]
20. "Conquering the Colorado,” reprinted by Hercules Powder
Company from the January 1931 issue of "The Explosives Engineer.”
21. photocopies of Hoover Dam construction, including Babcock & Wilcox Co. plant
22. Babcock & Wilcox “Hoover Dam” booklet w/transmittal letter, [May, 1933]
Box 3 of 3 [Hoover Dam - Babcock & Wilcox Co.]
items: Hoover Dam; The Babcock & Wilcox Co. Bulletins [1933]
[acc.no.007.079.5]
-Technical bulletins detailing Babcock and Wilcox’s equipment used during Hoover
Dam construction, including diagrams and performance data.
-Five copies of the bulletin are included.
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