Construction of Hoover Dam in June 1933. A bucket of concrete is lowered on ground from mountain top. Base of structure is prepared. Vehicles move on road on Canyon (Black Canyon) wall. Buckets of concrete suspended by cables are dumped on ground. Material is offloaded from truck and transferred through cable ways. Concrete buckets transferred from cliffs. Bucket descends and received by men on ground. Men shovel concrete and operate equipment. Workers from Canyon rim are transferred on ground. Concrete bucket lowered on to construction site. Construction in progress. Two intake towers on each side of the Canyon wall. Other structures constructed for dam.
The construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed as the Hoover Dam. Exteriors of Babcock and Wilcox Mill near Boulder Dam construction site, Nevada. Steel sheets manufactured. Technicians and workers work with equipment. Pipe units are made from sheets after shaping the sheets. Worker welds sheets. Man work with equipment during laboratory tests. Men work with huge pipe units. High capacity cranes swinging pipe unit. Giant lathe used to join individual sections of pipe units. Pipe section ready for insulation. Tractor trailer carrying a giant pipe unit on road. Pipe unit on Canyon rim, exactly over the dam site. Pipe unit is maneuvered for loading into the Canyon. Man at control tower of the cable way on cliff. Pipe unit transferred through cable ways. Pipe lowers into the canyon. Pipe units taken into tunnel.
The construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed as the Hoover Dam. Structure of dam erected into canyon. Equipment in tunnels. Giant cranes in operation. Concrete arch-dam in the Black Canyon. Traffic moves on highway over dam. Boat in Colorado River. People sail in boats. Colorado River view. Four intake towers at Hoover Dam. Spillways at Hoover Dam. Hoover Dam power plant to general power. Man points to the map of United States. Electric power setup for the Hoover Dam shows various electric towers, power house and electric lines across desert. Hoover Dam controls water.
Crowd gathered outside mansion, in Terre Haute, Indiana, being dedicated as the Gibault School for Boys, under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus. Reverend Francis T Jansen celebrates mass. Crowd listens. Few people seated on a bench in front of the house. Crowd stands in garden. The Right Reverend Joseph Chartand of Indianapolis delivers a sermon. Large crowd assembles. The State Deputy Joseph M. Nurre speaks with the crowd and shows an autographed baseball sent to him by Babe Ruth.
Sir Harry Lauder goes to Sing Sing Prison prison, in Ossining, New York. Harry Lauder followed by other people and official walk along a passage outside a building. They stop at the entrance of the building. Sir Harry Lauder smokes pipe while he talks with people.
Mayor John F Hylan arrives and unveils a bust of Columbus veiled with the U.S. flag, New York City. Crowd cheers. Officers salute.
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