Souvenir Viewbook, "Boulder Dam," 1935
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What's better than receiving a postcard from a vacationing friend? How about a souvenir viewbook with multiple images that fold neatly into a postcard-sized packet? This viewbook contains eighteen images and information about Boulder Dam. Tourists traveled to see this engineering marvel beginning in the 1930s soon after its completion. The dam was later rechristened Hoover Dam.
What's better than receiving a postcard from a vacationing friend? How about a souvenir viewbook with multiple images that fold neatly into a postcard-sized packet? This viewbook contains eighteen images and information about Boulder Dam. Tourists traveled to see this engineering marvel beginning in the 1930s soon after its completion. The dam was later rechristened Hoover Dam.
Artifact
Viewbook
Subject Date
1935
Creators
Place of Creation
United States, Illinois, Chicago
United States, Nevada, Boulder City
Creator Notes
Made by Curt Teich & Company, Chicago, Illinois. Distributed by Desert Souvenir Supply Company, Boulder City, Nevada.
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Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
90.68.5
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Photomechanical processes
Printing (Process)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 4.25 in
Width: 6.125 in
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