Night photograph of power house construction.

Metadata

Title

Night photograph of power house construction.

Digital Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

Original Date

1934-06-19

Description

Night view of the Hoover Dam construction site viewed from the lower cofferdam. Electric lights illuminate the dam face, the canyon walls and construction on the Nevada and Arizona power houses below. Temporary buildings are seen in the foreground on the cofferdam floor.

Subject

• Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) -- Design and construction(feed)
• Power houses(feed)
• Buildings and structures(feed)
• Electric lighting(feed)

Local subject

• Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) -- Design and construction(feed)
• Construction equipment(feed)
• Buildings and structures(feed)

Format

image/jp2 17535 KB

Digitization Specifications

This file is derived from a high-resolution (300 dpi, 24-bit) uncompressed TIFF image that was scanned from the original using a HP Scanjet 4670 scanner with HP Scanning 2.3.1 scanning software, default color configuration. The TIFF files were converted into the JPEG2000 format.

Image Number

0267 2730

Resource Type

Still Image

Is Part Of

http://digital.library.unlv.edu/u?/dig,8

Access and Ordering Information

Not to be reproduced without permission. To purchase copies of images and/or for copyright information, contact University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries, Special Collections at: http://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/

Contributing Institution

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries, Special Collections. W.A. Bechtel Collection.

Digital Collection

• Las Vegas and Water in the West(feed)

DigitalID

wiw000724