Shows the beginning of construction on the Hoover Dam (later called Boulder Dam) project in southern Nevada. With excellent footage of Boulder City, the model housing community built to provide residences for project workers.

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in collaboration with Six Companies, Inc. and The Babcock & Wilcox Company

http://archive.org/details/BoulderD1931 .

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