Hoover Dam Lake Meet Motorboating Vintage 1950s Mid Century Travel Poster Union Pacific Railroad
by Peter Ogden
Title
Hoover Dam Lake Meet Motorboating Vintage 1950s Mid Century Travel Poster Union Pacific Railroad
Artist
Peter Ogden
Medium
Painting - Chromolithograph
Description
This is a restored copy of a 1950s mid century modern vintage retro chromolithograph travel tourism poster of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead published by the Union Pacific Railroad. In this scene we see the great unprecedented concrete hydroelectric power generating dam and power plant on the right with Lake Mead in the foreground as a happy family rapidly cuts a surging hydroplane wake across the lake in an open vintage outboard motorboat launch with a patriotic American flag flying from its stern. To the left in the background we see the rugged, dry brown cliffs of Black Canyon and the Mojave desert surmounted by metal support towers for the electrical power cables leaving the electric generator plant.
The text on the poster reads: Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, Boating, Fishing, Swimming - Union Pacific Railroad.
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. It was referred to as Hoover Dam after President Herbert Hoover in bills passed by Congress during its construction; it was named Boulder Dam by the Roosevelt administration. The Hoover Dam name was restored by Congress in 1947.
Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, the U.S. Congress authorized such a project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium named Six Companies, Inc., which began construction of the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The extremely hot summer weather and lack of extreme isolation of the site also created difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the successfully completed dam over to the U.S. federal government on March 1, 1936, over two years ahead of schedule.
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December 21st, 2022
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