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Bathtub rings. Lake Mead at Boulder Dam, 1 April 2023.
Artifact Road Trip - Nevada
This model of the Boulder Dam, now known as the Hoover Dam, was one of several copies. It was given to President Roosevelt by the Denver Office of the Bureau of Reclamation through Elwood Mead, Commissioner, on December 10, 1935. The artist, Gladys Caldwell, was a sculptor for the Federal Arts Project.
Find out more about this Artifact Road Trip model on our Digital Artifact Collection: https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/885
Follow along each week as we feature a different artifact in our Museum Collection from each of the United States.
penstock construction, Hoover Dam
Boulder Dam
U.S. Department of the Interior USA, 1937
"Drillers and scalers at work in intake tower locations on Nevada side. Note five-yard dragline excavator in upper cofferdam excavation at lower right." 10/28/1932
Series: Photograph albums, 1903 - 1972. Record Group 115: Records of the Bureau of Reclamation, 1889 - 2008
This photo is from Volume Two of a series of photo albums documenting the construction of Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada, from the records of the Bureau of Reclamation. (Find them on Tumblr at @usbr! )
More posts from the Hoover (Boulder) Dam Construction Project
Postcard of Lake Mead as seen from from an observation point near Hoover Dam, the immense concrete arch-gravity dam originally known as Boulder Dam from 1931 to 1947.
Its name was changed to Hoover® Dam in 1948 to honor the popular American vacuum cleaner company, then rebranded Electrolux® Dam in the mid 1960s, and, finally, rechristened Roomba® Hydroelectric Dam in 2002.
The 7th largest man-made lake in the world and the largest demon-controlled lake in the Western Hemisphere, it is unknown how many kraken were trapped by the dam’s unnatural stanching of the Colorado River in the 30s, but some say twelve.
Charles Sheeler (American, 1883-1965)
Boulder Dam, 1939
Geltain silver print.
