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Photograph of a man carrying a shovel standing at the rail tunnel entrance, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of a man carrying a shovel standing at the rail tunnel entrance, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
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Photograph of the Las Vegas train yard and buildings, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of the Las Vegas train yard and buildings, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
Image
Photograph of railroad cottages, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1911
Date
1911
Archival Collection
Description
Row of railroad cottages in Clark's Las Vegas Townsite. Photograph is of a Wharton Drug Company postcard. 64 railroad cottages were built between 1909 and 1911 by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company for employees of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad.
Caption: R. R. cottages, Las Vegas, Nev. 1911
Caption: R. R. cottages, Las Vegas, Nev. 1911
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Telegram from Leo A. McNamee to A .S. Halsted, July 6, 1922
Date
1922-07-06
Archival Collection
Description
Message concerns keeping strikers off railroad property.
Text
Photograph of the driving of the golden spike and christening at Tonopah Railroad (Nev.), July 25, 1904
Date
1904-07-25
Archival Collection
Description
Christening the Tonopah Railroad July 25 1904
Image
Photograph of a decorated wagon at Tonopah Railroad Carnival, Tonopah (Nev.), early 1900s
Archival Collection
Description
Caption: Miners Drugstore Float Tonopah R.R. Carnival
Image
Dan Bennett oral history interview
Identifier
OH-00110
Abstract
Oral history interview with Dan Bennett conducted by Guy Pence on October 03, 1972 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. During this interview Bennett talks about the visits from presidents and other important people to the Las Vegas, Nevada area and discusses the 1942 plane crash of Carole Lombard’s plane. He also mentions Boulder Dam and describes the economic, social and environmental changes that have taken place in Southern Nevada over the years.
Archival Collection
Letter from H. T. Yoder to R. T. Walker, May 19, 1918
Date
1918-05-19
Archival Collection
Description
Letter regards employment opportunitites.
Text
Letter from Ralph E. Wells to J. Ross Clark, August 9, 1904
Date
1904-08-09
Archival Collection
Description
Letter forwards a message from C.O. Whittemore regarding the "lawless element" in Las Vegas.
Text
Telegram from A .S. Halsted to Fred E. Pettit, Jr., July 13, 1922
Date
1922-07-13
Archival Collection
Description
Telegram from A .S. Halsted to Fred E. Pettit, Jr., July 13, 1922
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