Boulder Dam on the Colorado River, showing four penstock towers under construction, March 26, 1935

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Photograph of Boulder Dam on the Colorado River, showing four penstock towers under construction, March 26, 1935. Two cylindrical towers striped with thick pipes that wrap around their circumferences stand in the foreground on the left with dark walkways connecting them to each other as well as the dam on the far left. The towers undergo construction from the cranes that extend from the near canyon wall. The dam bows towards center with two more identical towers standing near the far canyon wall on the right. Automobiles drive along the top of the dam to the roadways that hug the canyon wall in the background and continue out of site on either side.

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Title Boulder Dam on the Colorado River, showing four penstock towers under construction, March 26, 1935

Subject dam sites (adlf), Dams (lcsh), Engineering -- Dams -- Hoover (formerly Boulder) -- Construction (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Nevada (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1935-03-26

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1935-03-26

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10357

Identifier 40417 (accession number), CHS-40417 (call number), CHS-40417 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12494 (legacy record id), chs-m10357 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10503 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12494

Unique identifier UC133009

Legacy Identifier CHS-40417.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 23.6 in × 18.1 in at 300dpi
60.0 cm × 46.0 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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