Image – Aerial View of Boulder (Hoover) Dam (1934)

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Chapter 23

Aerial View of Boulder (Hoover) Dam (1934)

Produced with tourism in mind, this 1934 panoramic perspective of the Union Pacific Railroad’s service in southern Nevada, northern Arizona, and southwestern Utah focuses on the 725-foot-high Boulder Dam and the 115-mile-long Lake Mead, the largest manmade lake in the Western Hemisphere.

Questions for Analysis

1. How does this image showcase the ambition and scope of many New Deal programs?

2. What statement does this image make about Americans’ relationship to the environment in the 1930s?  To how they perceived the West?

 
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