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Personnel of the Las Vegas office of the Bureau of Reclamation: photographic prints

Date

1932

Description

From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). These employees worked on the Hoover Dam project. (See back of photo for identification of many of these people.)

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Film transparency of Boulder Dam Visitors Bureau, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1931-1936

Date

1931 to 1936

Archival Collection

Description

An image of a woman standing in front of the Boulder Dam Visitors Bureau, located on Arizona Street in Boulder City. Seated across the street and reflected in the Visitors Bureau's window is the Boulder Theatre at 1225 Arizona Street. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

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Frank F. Watts Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00169

Abstract

The Frank F. Watts Photograph Collection (approximately 1940-1959) contains black-and-white photographic prints, negatives, and slides. The photographs were taken in and around the El Rancho Vegas Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and include publicity photographs, celebrity images, wedding photographs, and images of the hotel interior and exterior. Also included are images of the El Rancho's executives with national figures, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter Winchell. A few additional images depict the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) and Lake Mead.

Archival Collection

Photograph of people on a boat tour of the Colorado River, 1931

Date

1931

Description

A group of unidentified men embarking on a tour of the Colorado River through Black Canyon prior to Hoover Dam construction.

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Photograph of a boat on Lake Mead,1940s-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

A group of people riding on the boat called "Miss Peggy" at Lake Mead. The Hoover Dam can be seen in the background.

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Boulder Dam Postage Stamp

Identifier

MS-00052

Abstract

The collection consists of one three-cent United States (U.S.) postage stamp from 1935 featuring Boulder Dam, located on the Arizona-Nevada border.

Archival Collection

Film transparency of Boulder Dam Visitors Bureau, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1931-1936

Date

1931 to 1936

Archival Collection

Description

An image of two men and a woman standing in front of the Boulder Dam Visitors Bureau, located on Arizona Street in Boulder City. Seated across the street and reflected in the Visitors Bureau's window is the Boulder Theatre at 1225 Arizona Street. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

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