Hydrohistorian
One of the two spillway structures at Boulder Dam
Library of Congress · 1934 · Ben D. Glaha
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-114361 No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights
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A spillway at Hoover Dam, dry, the year before the gates closed. Ben Glaha photographed the job for the Bureau of Reclamation and photographed it as architecture. This is the structure that made the Colorado River a managed system.
Shows: The size of the works that turned the Colorado into storage, and how the agency chose to picture them.
What this does not let you conclude: Lake Mead, or any Colorado obligation. Our compact pages carry what Colorado owes downstream; this is the machinery at the other end of it.
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