This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!
December 22nd, 1936
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Image from https://www.fulltable.com/vts/f/fortune/ills/sheeler/b.htm
- in the United States, here the especially sublime and beautiful Boulder (now Hoover) Dam for his ‘Power Portfolio’.
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#OTD in 1933
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August 19, 1933: #FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA).
#HooverDam (originally #BoulderDam - 1931-1936) - completed with funds from the PWA
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#Photograph by #AnselAdams. 1942.
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Photograph from Volume Two of a series of photo albums documenting the construction of Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nevada. NARA's Rocky Mountain Region (Denver) (NRGA), Building 48, Denver Federal Center, West 6th Avenue and Kipling Street, Denver, CO, 80225-0307. https://www.atlasofplaces.com/architecture/hoover-dam/ 14.8.20 INFO https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evaporation_tower_for_Boulder_Dam_precooling_system_located_on_downstream_cofferdam._View_from_Nevada_outlet_valve..._-_NARA_-_293900.jpg
#OTD in 1933
‘Evaporation tower for Boulder Dam precooling system located on downstream cofferdam. View from Nevada outlet valve house bench.’ 26 June 1933.
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Photograph from Volume Two of a series of photo albums documenting the construction of Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nevada. NARA's Rocky Mountain Region (Denver) (NRGA), Building 48, Denver Federal Center, West 6th Avenue and Kipling Street, Denver, CO, 80225-0307. https://www.atlasofplaces.com/architecture/hoover-dam/ 14.8.20 INFO https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Placing_concrete_in_panel_forms_near_downstream_toe_in_Boulder_Dam_foundation._An_8-cubic_yard_bottom-dump_bucket..._-_NARA_-_293903.jpg
#OTD in 1933
‘Placing concrete in panel forms near downstream toe in Boulder Dam foundation. An 8-cubic yard bottom-dump bucket handled over cableway is in use.’ 26 June 1933.
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https://www.atlasofplaces.com/architecture/hoover-dam/ 14.8.20 INFO https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_carriage_of_permanent_150-ton_cableway_at_Boulder_Dam_-_NARA_-_293894.jpg
#OTD in 1933
‘Detail of carriage of permanent 150-ton cableway at Boulder Dam’ 22 June 1933.
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Photograph from Volume Two of a series of photo albums documenting the construction of Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nevada. NARA's Rocky Mountain Region (Denver) (NRGA), Building 48, Denver Federal Center, West 6th Avenue and Kipling Street, Denver, CO, 80225-0307. https://www.atlasofplaces.com/architecture/hoover-dam/ 14.8.20 INFO https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Six_Companies_Inc._cableways_at_Hoover_Dam_construction_site
#OTD in 1933
‘Boulder Dam, tail tower installation for Six Companies' cableway installations Nos. 5 and 6.’
21 June 1933
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Photograph from Volume Two of a series of photo albums documenting the construction of Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nevada. NARA's Rocky Mountain Region (Denver) (NRGA), Building 48, Denver Federal Center, West 6th Avenue and Kipling Street, Denver, CO, 80225-0307. https://www.atlasofplaces.com/architecture/hoover-dam/ 14.8.20 INFO https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Looking_upstream_toward_Boulder_dam_site_showing_outlet_portals_of_all_four_diversion_tunnels._Flow_of_Colorado..._-_NARA_-_293890.jpg
#OTD in 1933
‘Looking upstream toward Boulder dam site showing outlet portals of all four diversion tunnels. Flow of Colorado River is approximately 70,000 cubic feet per second.’
20 June 1933
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Bureau of Reclamation photograph from Volume Two of a series of photo albums documenting the construction of Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nevada. NARA's Rocky Mountain Region (Denver) (NRGA), Building 48, Denver Federal Center, West 6th Avenue and Kipling Street, Denver, CO, 80225-0307. IMAGE OpenValley, accessed August 14, 2020, https://openvalley.org/items/show/1428. INFO https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Placing_concrete
#OTD in 1933
#Hoover Dam. Placing concrete in sidewall forms of Nevada spillway of #BoulderDam. Concrete is being handled by crane in 2-cubic yard bottom-dump bucket supplied from truck-mounted agitators operated from high level concrete mixing plant.’
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https://www.atlasofplaces.com/architecture/hoover-dam/ 14.8.20 INFO https://www.alamy.com/first-8-cubic-yard-batch-of-concrete-being-placed-in-boulder-dam-scope-and-content-photograph-from-volume-two-of-a-series-of-photo-albums-documenting-the-construction-of-hoover-dam-boulder-city-nevada-image257635103.html
‘First 8-cubic yard batch of concrete being placed in Boulder Dam’ Ca. June 1933.
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Photograph from Volume Two of a series of photo albums documenting the construction of Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nevada.
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Did you know what Henry Kaiser’s most famous project was before the Liberty ships? #boulderdam now known as #hooverdam
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