Cliff Segerblom

[4] Upon graduating college in 1938, Segerblom accepted a position with the Bureau of Reclamation and became one of two official photographers of the Boulder Canyon Project thus far.

His photography captured the recreational side of the massive engineering project and was featured in major publications such as Life,[6] Time, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated.

The photo captures a day when, following heavy rains that raised Lake Mead to record levels, water poured through the jet flow valves on each side of the canyon while tiny spectators dangled precariously close to the streams.

[7][8] On the opposite spectrum, another famous photograph of the dam created by Segerblom instead emphasized the calm and recreational potential of Lake Mead.

He staged several photographs with his future wife in the foreground, images which suggested that the danger previously associated with the Hoover Dam project had been eliminated.

One of his notable commissions was a series of six watercolors documenting the Apollo 12 splashdown, which is currently housed at the National Air and Space Museum.

[12] In 1981 Segerblom appeared in a feature on Boulder City with architectural concepts he'd designed for a museum in Crowe memorial park to house Hoover Dam memorabilia.