Hoover Dam

  • Hoover Dam: The Photographs of Ben Glaha
    By Barbara Vilander

    "Art historian Barbara Vilander's text places Glaha's efforts within the historical context of western landscape exploration and development and reveals how his particular qualifications led to his selection as the project photographer.

  • Hoover Dam
    By Renee Corona Kolvet

    In a sign of the times, Boulder City manager Simms Ely prohibited blacks from living in Boulder City. (Courtesy of USBR.) These Native American high-scalers, including a Yaqui, Crow, Navajo, and six Apaches, pose for this photograph on ...

  • Hoover Dam: An American Adventure
    By Joseph E. Stevens

    See Mark S. Foster, “Giant of the West: Henry J. Kaiser and Regional Industrialization, 1930–1950,” Business History Review 59 (Spring, 1985): 1– 23; John Gunther, “Life and Works of Henry Kaiser,” in Inside USA, pp.

  • Hoover Dam: An American Adventure
    By Joseph E. Stevens

    p. 4. 72. SCCR, “Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors, December 16, 1935; “The Earth Movers I,” Fortune, p. ... Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, July 15, July 17, 1935; Allen, Hoover Dam, p. 179. 83.

  • Hoover Dam
    By Elizabeth Mann

    Describes the engineering, construction, and social and historical contexts of the Hoover Dam.

  • Hoover Dam: The Photographs of Ben Glaha
    By Barbara Vilander

    ... Dam . ” AIA Journal 72 ( December 1983 ) : 45-47 . Winfield , Betty Houchin . FDR and the News Media . Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press , 1990 . Wolf , Donald E. Big Dams and Other Dreams : The Six Companies Story ...