[Henry C. Wieking Collection]. 1932.

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[Henry C. Wieking Collection]. 1932.

Collection consists of the personal recollections (including daily journal pages) of Henry C. Wieking. Also contains newspaper clippings and a BLM memorandum. Wieking writes of the laboratory established at the Las Vegas Fort in the early 1930s.

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Boulder Canyon Project (U.S.)

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The box that the original nitrate film is housed in has a return address of Metropolitan Industrial Pictures, of 1040 N. Las Palmas Ave., Hollywood, CA. It was addressed to the Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada. A second and third name on the box are those of Alan MacDonald and Felix Kahn, of MacDonald and Kahn, Financial Center Bldg., San Francisco. From the description of Boulder Dam (aka Hoover Dam) : film of construction, ca. 1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 8613042...

Wieking, Henry C.

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Henry C. Wieking was the foreman at the BLM's Concrete Testing Laboratory, the agency charged with screening the gravel used to make concrete for Hoover Dam. From the description of [Henry C. Wieking Collection]. 1932. (University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 456259754 ...