McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 083a

Title: McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 083a
Description: No Caption: A 1935 three-cent U.S. Postage stamp, featuring Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam, which was constructed between 1931 and 1936. The concrete arch-gravity dam is located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between Clark County, Nevada, and Mojave County, Arizona. A National Historic Landmark, the dam provides hydroelectric power, water storage, flood control, and recreation at Lake Mead, the reservoir created by the dam's construction.
Contributor: Audrey Fullerton-Samora of Sacramento, great niece of William and Grace McCarthy, donated the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection to the California State Archives in 1996.
Coverage: Colorado River between Clark County, Nevada, and Mojave County, Arizona
Date: 1935
Format: JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier: 96-07-08-alb10
Language: English
Publisher: California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Source: Image of an item within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject: Boulder Dam, 1935 U.S. Postage Stamp
Type: Still Image