Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, United States Secretary of the Interior: photographic print

Image

File
Download pho032880.tif (image/tiff; 87.94 MB)

Information

Date

1910 (year approximate) to 1945 (year approximate)

Description

From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscription with image reads: "Driving the silver spike. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, drives the last spike into tracks of railroads spur to the damsite. To the right of Dr. Wilbur is Senator Key Pittman. Nest to Pittman is Nevada Governor Fred Balzar. Second back from Senator Pittman is Las Vegas Mayor Fred Hesse. To the left of Dr. Wilbur is Carl R. Coray, Union Pacific Railroad president." - E(lizabeth) Harrington.

Digital ID

pho032880

Physical Identifier

0291_0050
Details

Citation

pho032880. Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection, approximately 1910-1959. PH-00291. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1n29pk4p

Rights

This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. It may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu

Standardized Rights Statement

Digital Provenance

Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

Format

image/tiff