From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Looking upstream through Black Canyon (future site of Hoover Dam). Photo by Walker R. Young, 1922.
Color image showing an artist's rendering of the Colorado River, looking upstream, at the Boulder Dam site. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.
The Spencer and Georgia Hanna Butterfield Photograph Collection (approximately 1900-1978) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of the Hanna and Butterfield families. It also contains images of early and prominent residents of Las Vegas, Nevada such as James Cashman Sr., Las Vegas Chamber of Congress members, Union Pacific Railroad president George Ashby, and many other notable persons from early Las Vegas. The collection also includes photographs taken in Elko County, Nevada, the Hoover Dam, and other Las Vegas area images.
Oral history interview with Richard Earl Alger conducted by Karen Schank on March 15, 2011 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project.
Richard Alger shares his family history and what brought the Algers to Nevada; Alger's father was a carpenter for various mines in Midvale, Utah before working at the Hoover Dam, Black Mountain Industrial (BMI) Complex, and Nellis Air Force Base. Richard shares stories of his childhood growing up in North Las Vegas. He talks about how he and his family spent their time, what life in the city was like, and the various neighborhood hangout spots that he and other children would frequent including Kiel Ranch, the Las Vegas Mormon Fort, and Cashman Center.
Oral history interview with Peter F. Perazzo conducted by Claytee D. White on July 22, 2016 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Perazzo discusses his personal history and moving from Reno, Nevada to Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1940s. Perazzo talks about his Native American ancestry, his career in land surveying, and how construction and land surveying have changed over the years. He then describes designing public and residential buildings in Las Vegas, and at the Nevada Test Site. Later, Perazzo discusses his employment at the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 1985 and in 1995 at the Nevada Department of Transportation, where he was involved in many state projects such as the Hoover Dam bypass, Red Rock state road, and freeway widening.
Oral history interview with Anne Victoria Baker conducted by Blanche Uekling on March 31, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Baker discusses her personal history and Hoover (Boulder) Dam.
This photograph has two images. The first one (0272_0108) shows the Charleston Lodge or Charleston Park, taken by the new road to the Mt. from Las Vegas. It reads, "Early view - a quick and pleasant relief from the terrible heat of Vegas." The second image (0272_0109) reads "The Lodge [Charleston] - blanketed in snow."