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Photo of officials inside one of the gigantic penstock pipes used in the Hoover Dam, 1935.
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So not construction workers? No reason for them to be inside a giant pipe while it’s being moved by a crane other than the photo op?
Unless it's just another one of those perspective photos where the ground is just a foot or two under them, overlooking the site from above. Seemed to be a common photo technique back then to inflate scale.
That's not to say there were not dangerous working conditions back then, but photographers also knew how to engineer stunning photos.