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Workers for the Boulder Canyon Project gathered at a Six Companies dormitory in Boulder City, Nevada during the August 1931 labor strike.

Sergeant Clyatt, in his bake shop at the landing on the Arizona River near Ragtown near Boulder City, Nevada. He established a relief station there and served bread and coffee to families left homeless after a brush fire at the river. Photo was taken circa 1930s. (NOTE: Photos of Elton Garrett, family, and friends transferred to B.C. - D. McBride collection)

A portrait of Elton Garrett, circa 1930s.

An unidentified man hanging laundry on an unemployment campground in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was one of many individuals who were hoping to find work on the Boulder Canyon Project.

Film stars Rex Lease and Eleanor Hunt on the day they were married in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information on the image, please see the corresponding story printed in Las Vegas Evening Review Journal on April 15, 1931.

Film stars Rex Lease and Eleanor Hunt on the day they were married in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Description provided with image: "Minnie "Ma" Kennedy and Guy Edward "Whataman" Hudson's wedding at Observation Point, overlooking the Hoover Dam site, near Boulder City, Nevada Sept. 19, 1931. L-R: (far left) Ryland G. Taylor, one of Hudson's attorneys; Justice of the Peace Frank M. Ryan; Hudson, holding the license; Ma Kennedy; Mrs. Ryland G. Taylor (dark flowered dress); District Attorney Harley A. Harmon (hat in hand); Mrs. C. P. Squires (hat with feather); Mrs. E. W. Cragin; a reporter; P. L. Lacy, proprietor of Railroad pass store; G. E. "Bud" Bodell, police chief of Boulder City (extreme right). Tall man in very back is Mayor E. W. Cragin of Las Vegas."