Description
MS 174
Primary Collection
container list
Hoover Dam Ephemera
This is an open collection of materials related to the history and promotion of Hoover Dam, formerly known as Boulder Dam. Contents include postcards, brochures, and a 1941 publication telling the story of Boulder Dam.
[open collection]
[1 box]
Box 1 of 1
ff no.
1. souvenir postcard packet “Boulder Dam and Vicinity” - [acc.no 019.032.1]
souvenir booklet, “Construction of Boulder Dam”
[acc.no 019.032.2a; 019.032.2b]
souvenir postcard packet “Boulder Dam” - [acc.no 019.033.1]
souvenir postcard packet “Boulder Dam” - [acc.no 019.046.1]
postcard - Nevada Lookout Point, Boulder Dam
souvenir postcard packet “Boulder Dam” (postmarked Dec. 28, 1936 to Mr. Joe
Houshka)
2. Hoover Dam brochure - [acc.no 019.040.1]
“Boulder Dam” Book of Comparisons [1937] - [acc.no 019.039]
3. The Story of Boulder Dam, [1941] - [acc.no 019.042.1]
Pictorial Boulder Dam, [1938] - [acc.no 019.042.2]
Hoover (Boulder) Dam and the Lake Mead National Recreation Area
[acc.no 019.050.1]
4. Giant postcard of Boulder Dam - [acc.no 019.052.1]
postcard - A Nevada Desert - [acc.no 019.052.2]
postcard - Transcontinental Highway across Hoover (Boulder) Dam
[acc.no 019.052.3]
postcard - Figures of the Republic, Hoover (Boulder) Dam
[acc.no 019.52.4]
postcard - Lake Mead Looking Toward the Narrows, Boulder Dam
[acc.no 019.52.5]
5. souvenir booklet, Construction of Boulder Dam by Boulder Dam Service Bureau,
1934 (7th ed.; paperbound)
6. Hoover Dam brochure - [acc.no 997.43.79] (1)
Hoover Dam brochure - [acc.no 997.43.79] (2)
Boulder Dam brochure - [ca. 1937-38]
Boulder Dam brochure - The World’s Most Impressive Engineering Spectacle
[ca. 1937- 38]
7. postcard: official photograph C45-300-021092: testing new needle valves at Hoover Dam
postcard - 75th anniversary Boulder City 1931-2006
postcard - Greetings from Boulder City
postcard - Hoover Dam
postcard - Hoover Dam and Fortification Mountain
postcard - Boulder City - Hoover Dam, Nevada
8. pamphlet - Hoover Dam, 40 years of Power, October 26, 1976
pamphlet - Bureau of Reclamation, Hoover Dam
pamphlet - Valley of Fire, Nevada State Park
brochure - Discover Hoover Dam, Tour Center Info, Hoover Dam Store, Hoover Dam Discovery Tour Coupon
pamphlet - Lost City Museum and Valley of Fire
9. Program - 40th Anniversary of Hydroelectric Power Generation at Hoover Dam, October 26, 1976
Invitation - Boulder City Days, March 11-17, 70th Anniversary, 1931-2001
Invitation - Bloomin" Up: Building Hoover Dam and Boulder City, October 21, 2006
Invitation - Buillding Boulder Dam - stories from men and women who were there: October 21, 2006
10. Note card: construction worker drinking from water bag , 1933-1934
Sticker - Hoover Dam Proud America
11. booklet - Guide's Lecture Tour through Hoover Dam
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