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Explosives Magazines No. 1, view southeast - Hoover Dam, Explosives Magazines, About 75 feet west of Lower Portal Tunnel Access Road, Boulder City, Clark County, NV
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Edwards, Douglas M.

Related names:

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Engineer
Six Companies, Inc., Builder
Title
Explosives Magazines No. 1, view southeast - Hoover Dam, Explosives Magazines, About 75 feet west of Lower Portal Tunnel Access Road, Boulder City, Clark County, NV
Depicted place Nevada; Clark County; Boulder City
Date 2003
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER NV-27-V-2
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  • Significance: These two explosive magazines were constructed for storage of dynamite used in the early phases of construction of Hoover Dam, possibly as early as 1931 for blasting the route of the Lower Portal Tunnel Access Road and the diversion tunnels on the Nevada and Arizona sides of the Colorado River
  • Survey number: HAER NV-27-V
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1931 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 81000382.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/nv0434.photos.366229p
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Object location35° 58′ 43″ N, 114° 49′ 54.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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