#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.
#HooverDam #BoulderDam #LakeMead

- in the United States, here the especially sublime and beautiful Boulder (now Hoover) Dam for his ‘Power Portfolio’.
#CharlesSheeler #americanart #precisionism #IndustrialSublime #HooverDam #BoulderDam #hydroelectricPower

Did you know what Henry Kaiser’s most famous project was before the Liberty ships? #boulderdam now known as #hooverdam

#OTD in 1933
‘Boulder Dam, tail tower installation for Six Companies' cableway installations Nos. 5 and 6.’
21 June 1933
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#BoulderDam #HooverDam #ColoradoRiver #ArmyCorpsofEngineers

10 June 1933
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#OTD in 1933
‘Detail of carriage of permanent 150-ton cableway at Boulder Dam’ 22 June 1933.
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#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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#BoulderDam #HooverDam #ColoradoRiver #ArmyCorpsofEngineers

‘First 8-cubic yard batch of concrete being placed in Boulder Dam’ Ca. June 1933.
#BoulderDam #HooverDam #ColoradoRiver #ArmyCorpsofEngineers
Photograph from Volume Two of a series of photo albums documenting the construction of Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nevada.

#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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#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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Finished a 3-year Pathfinder 1e campaign tonight. Time for me to bid farewell to my Changeling Cleric, Ingrikka Boulderdam. Next up will be an intimidation focused Half-Orc Inquisitor named Makkus Varduhi. (Token pending until I find something I like)

This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

December 22nd, 1936

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#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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