Workers abseil down on the dam of the Hoover Dam, 1936

With ropes secured men work on a dam of the Hoover Dam (until 1947 Boulder Dam), a dam which was built in the years 1931-36 (221m high, 379m long) in a gorge of the Colorado River, at the border between Arizona and Nevada. It serves the flood control, electricity generation (installed capacity: 1345 MW) and irrigation

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Mary Evans / Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo

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