Photographer's notes: "Ironworkers arrive to work in manbasket, Arizona side of bridge arch construction, Hoover Dam Bypass Project, April 30, 2009." Site Name: Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge
The view of Fortification Hill at Lake Mead. Created in the late 1930s when Hoover Dam was built atop of the Colorado River, Lake Mead is one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the United States at 112 miles long and 500 feet deep.
A black and white image of a woman and three children standing behind a food truck in Ragtown, an area near the Hoover Dam construction site at Black Canyon, not far from Boulder City. Two men appear to be distributing food from the bed of the truck.
From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). Las Vegas, Nevada scenes including Sal Sagev Hotel, Hoover Dam, a gambling scene, and the El Trovatore Autel and Challenger Auto Court (east of Kingman, Arizona).
From left to right: William G. Price, Hal Erickson, and Barbara Price at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Mr. And Mrs. Price are donating a rare collection of photos of Hoover Dam taken by Mrs. Price's step-father, Ernest Mitchell Pratt.
Oral history interview with Marion Earl conducted by Robert Pearce on March 13, 1976 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Earl discusses relocating to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1923, serving as a member of the board of directors for the Chamber of Commerce, and then being elected president of the chamber in 1941. He also discusses being elected justice of the peace in 1934, and serving for two terms.
George Albright was born December 06, 1909 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1931. He had a role in creating the building plans for the Hoover Dam, he worked with the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and the Clark County Board of County Commissioners, and he dealt with planning conventions on various Las Vegas Strip properties. Albright passed away November 08, 1996.