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Ronzone, Richard James, 1917-1989
Richard “Dick” J. Ronzone (1917-1989) was active in the local politics and civic affairs of Las Vegas, Nevada, serving as a Clark County Commissioner, a Nevada State Assemblyman, and a member of the University Board of Regents. He inherited and managed his family's retail store which dated back to the early 1900s. Ronzone also helped develop the Municipal Golf Course and was active in the Elks Lodge, Rotary Club, Veterans Of Foreign Wars, Reserve Officers Association, and the Boulder Dam Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
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Photograph showing an aerial view of the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, Nevada-Arizona border, April 10, 2012
Date
2012-04-10
Archival Collection
Description
Photographer's notes: "Aerial view, April 10, 2012. Note: I was commissioned to photograph over the bridge and dam in April 2012, more than a year after my project was complete." Site Name: Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge
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Photograph showing an aerial view of the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, Nevada-Arizona border, April 10, 2012
Date
2012-04-10
Archival Collection
Description
Photographer's notes: "Aerial view, April 10, 2012. Note: I was commissioned to photograph over the bridge and dam in April 2012, more than a year after my project was complete." Site Name: Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge
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Electrians that it took to work on the Hoover Powerplant: photographic print
Date
1940 (year approximate) to 1960 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Written on the back it says, "It required this number of electricians and more (those on shift were not able to appear in the picture), to complete the electrical work on Hoover Powerplant. Ralph Lowry, fourth form the left in the front row, was in charge of all the work in the powerplant, and on his left his Wilbur (Slim) Handley, chief electrician, and next to last in the back row on the right is Morgan J. Sweeney, who provide this picture."
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Photograph of Alta Ham, Art Ham, and others, Boulder Dam, Nevada, September 13, 1931
Date
1931-09-13
Archival Collection
Description
Description provided with image: "Ma Kennedy, G. E. Hudson and Las Vegas people (OVERSIZE)." Handwritten inscription on front of image: "Alta & Art Ham helping "Ma" & "Pa" start life "all over again at Boulder Dam" Nevada. Sept 19-1931. {Ma Kennedy, G. E. Hudson}."
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Clarence Ray Photograph Collection
Identifier
PH-00326
Abstract
The Clarence Ray Photograph Collection (approximately 1930-1960) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of Clarence Ray, casino scenes of people playing table games, and images of Ray with black activists in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Archival Collection
Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) Disaster Collection of News Articles
Identifier
MS-00760
Abstract
The Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) Disaster Collection of News Articles (1988-1992) consists of articles from Las Vegas and other state and regional newspapers about the PEPCON plant explosion that took place in May of 1988. Also included are United Press International press releases from October to December, 1988.
Archival Collection
Mary Carol Melton interview, March 5, 1981: transcript
Date
1981-03-05
Archival Collection
Description
On March 5, 1981, collector Kathy Ricks interviewed Mary Carol Melton (b. April 4th, 1900 in Rockville, Missouri) about her life in Nevada and the development of the United Methodist Church in Las Vegas. Melton speaks about moving to Las Vegas, Nevada because of her husband’s health, her time working with attorney offices and in the Las Vegas Courthouse, and the different homes in which her family lived. Moreover, Melton talks extensively about starting the first Sunday school in North Las Vegas in a garage as well as the church she and her husband built. Melton discusses the programs and minstrels performed in the church, the crafts sold to make money for the church and the organ they purchased. Lastly, Melton talks about going to the Hoover Dam nearly every week to see new developments, her participation in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and watching the above ground atomic tests.
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