Home 000_January 1932

Reference URL

Add tags

Comment

Rate

To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed the entire object, paste this HTML in website

To link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed this page, paste this HTML in website

047_January 1932

000_January 1932

1 of 6

View Description

View Image & Text

Download

small (250x250 max)

medium (500x500 max)

large ( > 500x500)

Full Resolution

All (PDF)

This page

All

Subset

Image
Text

Text Search...

Loading content ...

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

Submit

Cancel

...

Rating
Title	047_January 1932
Subject	Boulder City, NV; Construction-Dams; Hoover Dam; Six Companies, Inc; Utah Construction Company
Description	In 1931, Utah joined Six Companies Inc. to raise the surety required to bid for the Boulder (Hoover) Dam contract. One of the world’s largest dams, Hoover Dam was completed in 1936 at a cost of $49 million. These scrapbooks document through photographs the construction of the dam showcasing UCC'; s part in its creation.
Creator	Utah Construction Company; Six Companies, Inc.
Image Captions	"; # 539 steam Locomotive hauling muck train from the dump hopper at the low level mixing plant for the disposal of tunnel muck along the right-of-way above the river-camp, which is seen in the background. January 28th, 1932. #537 Four 90-ton consolidation type locomotives are now in use by Six Company Inc. View shows first trainlond of gravel arriving at the screening plant. January 9th, 1932. #541 View looking downstream at the site of the low level mixing plant. Track hopper and gravel conveyor to mixing plant in the center. View shows three of Six Companies'; locomotives engaged in hauling tunnel muck from the dump hopper seen in the background. # 540 Muck train dumping along railroad right-of-way, upstream from the river camp. View shows western side-dump drop-door type of cars in use. January 28th, 1932. ";
Publisher Digital	Stewart Library - Weber State University
Contributors	Six Companies, Inc.
Date Original	1932
Date Digital	2008
Type	Paper, Image
Original Format	black and white photographs 4 x 5.3 in. or 8 x 4.8 in. paper background 10 x 13.5 in.
Digital Format	TIFF/JPG/PDF
Digitization Specifications	Archived TIFF images were scanned by Kathleen Broeder at 400 dpi with an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner. Digital images were reformatted in Photoshop. JPG and PDF files were then created for general use.
Digital Identifier	UCCHooverDam1
Source	MS 100 Boxes 126-130
Language	eng
Relation	http://library.weber.edu/asc/ucc/regindex/default.cfm
Rights Management	Digital Image Copyright 2008. Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes, please credit the Special Collections Department, Stewart Library, Weber State University.

Title	000_January 1932
Image Captions	"; # 539 steam Locomotive hauling muck train from the dump hopper at the low level mixing plant for the disposal of tunnel muck along the right-of-way above the river-camp, which is seen in the background. January 28th, 1932. #537 Four 90-ton consolidation type locomotives are now in use by Six Company Inc. View shows first trainlond of gravel arriving at the screening plant. January 9th, 1932. #541 View looking downstream at the site of the low level mixing plant. Track hopper and gravel conveyor to mixing plant in the center. View shows three of Six Companies'; locomotives engaged in hauling tunnel muck from the dump hopper seen in the background. # 540 Muck train dumping along railroad right-of-way, upstream from the river camp. View shows western side-dump drop-door type of cars in use. January 28th, 1932. ";
Digital Identifier	UCCHooverDam1

Find results with:

Searching collections:

Home 000_January 1932

047_January 1932

Object Description

Description

Tags

Comments

047_January 1932

047_January 1932

	All
	Pages Enter page numbers or page ranges separated by commas. For example: 1,3,5-12