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Photograph of ceremony celebrating Hoover Dam construction, September 17, 1930

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Date
1930-09-17
Description
Black and white image of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of Interior, naming the Boulder Dam (name officially changed to Hoover Dam in 1947) at a ceremony celebrating the beginning of work on the Boulder Canyon Project and the beginning of the construction of Union Pacific Railroad from Boulder Junction (Bracken Junction) to the dam site.
Digital ID
pho004580
Physical Identifier
0071_0179
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    Citation

    pho004580. Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada. PH-00071. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d11z41s5g.

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    Digital Provenance
    Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room
    Extent
    5784 x 4520 pixels
    9.64 x 7.5333 inches
    78459492 bytes
    Language

    English

    Publisher
    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
    Format
    image/tiff