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The Story of the Hoover Dam
This archival video comes from a series of moving images on the overwhelming need for the Hoover Dam by the Department of the Interior. it discusses the need to control and regulate the raging waters of the Colorado River; the 1928 passage of the Boulder Canyon Project authorizing construction of the Hoover Dam; the ensuing construction of diversion tunnels and then the dam itself; building of support facilities, such as a steel fabrication plant for giant pipe construction; and creation of hydroelectric operations that provided electricity to California, Nevada, and Arizona.
The video file is available for download at: http://media.nara.gov/cs/001/31810.wmv
Full Title:The story of Hoover Dam
Creator: Department of the Interior. Bureau of Reclamation. (05/18/1981 - ) (Most Recent)
Series: Moving Images Relating to Reclamation, compiled 1981 - 1996, documenting the period 1950 - 1996
Record Group 115: Records of the Bureau of Reclamation, 1889 - 2008
Scope & Content:Explains the overwhelming need to control and regulate the raging waters of the Colorado River; the 1928 passage of the Boulder Canyon Project authorizing construction of the Hoover Dam; the ensuing construction of diversion tunnels and then the dam itself; building of support facilities, such as a steel fabrication plant for giant pipe construction; and creation of hydroelectric operations that provided electricity to California, Nevada, and Arizona. Also details how Lake Mead evolved into a successful recreational area as a result of the dam construction.
Contact(s):National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RD-DC-M), National Archives at College Park
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
Phone: 301-837-3540
Fax: 301-837-3620
Email: mopix@nara.gov
National Archives Identifier:37058
Local Identifier:115.31
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