Should it be called Boulder Dam or Hoover Dam

Lake Mead begins to form behind the Hoover Dam at the Black Canyon of Colorado.

Publication date: 1935-05-12

Size: 12.6 x 20 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Geography:

• Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)

Subject(s):

• Black Canyon (Ariz. and Nev.)
• Canyons--Black Canyon (Ariz. and Nev.)
• Dams--Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)--1930-1940
• Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
• Mead, Lake (Ariz. and Nev.)
• Reservoirs--Mead, Lake (Ariz. and Nev.)--1930-1940

Genre(s):

• Landscape photographs
• Photographs

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (May 12, 1935), p. 2

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Contributor(s):

• Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)