Photograph
View from Future Site of Hoover Dam
| Elevated view looking down from the point where the Hoover Dam is to be built. International trucks used roads built into the mountainside to transport building materials. |
| Image ID: | 86975 |
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| Creation Date: | 03 1932 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Boulder City |
| County: | |
| State: | Nevada |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company photo albums, circa 1899-1965 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 7Z, Album 340, Box 122, Page 114 |
| Original Dimensions: | 7 x 5 inches |
| This photograph was taken to accompany an article entitled: "Builders of Hoover Dam Select Internationals" by L.E. Roberson, "International Trail" magazine, March 1932, pp.9-11. The original caption on the photograph reads: "Looking down from the point where Hoover Dam is to rise, a huge fleet of trucks steadily hauls rock up the grades to the dumping ground." |
| Construction equipment |
| Mountains |
| Industrial buildings |
| Outdoor photography |
| Bridges |
| Roads |
| Trucks |
| Dams |
| Rivers |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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