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Note: Dinner is "complimentary to the overseers, office employees and officials of the Eagle & Phenix Mills and Girard Cotton Mills." Menu is attached over a swatch of plaid fabric, which lifts up to show part of an advertisement for Eagle & Phenix Mills' products, which is illustrated by a drawing of a woman wearing a kimono (beginning of the advertisement is missing). Back of the menu has another advertisement and illustration of the Eagle & Phenix Mills in Columbus, Georgia Menu insert: Advertisements Restaurant: Springer's Hotel Location: Columbus, Georgia, United States

Black and white image of a mud deposit at Hoover Dam. This site can be seen at mile 257, and a member of the survey crew displays a representative sample of one of the mud cubes formed to show the depth of the crevices. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

Black and white image of Hoover Dam. A rare view of Hoover Dam against a cloud pattern in a desert sky that is usually clear. The world-famous dam, completed by the Bureau of Reclamation, conquered the Colorado River for the first time in history. The dam, spanning the river between Nevada and Arizona, provides all of Reclamation's multipurpose benefits: flood protection, river control, water storage and conservation for irrigation; municipal and industrial uses; generation of low-cost hydroelectric energy; enhancement of navigation; recreation; and fish and wildlife protection.