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Transcript of interview with Neil H. Holmes by Laura Bell, February 12, 1975
Date
1975-02-12
Archival Collection
Description
On February 12, 1975, collector Laura Bell interviewed her neighbor, plant mechanic foreman, Neil H. Holmes (born on November 16th, 1897 in Chicopee, Kansas) in the collector’s home in Boulder City, Nevada. This interview covers the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam. During this interview Neil also discusses local living conditions in 1931.
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H. O. Watts and others uncovering human skeletal remains during an archaeological excavation at Willow Beach near Lake Mohave, approximately 1948-1952
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Archival Collection
Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00071
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box SH-046 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box SH-046 (Restrictions apply)
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H. O. Watts uncovering human skeletal remains during an archaeological excavation at Willow Beach near Lake Mohave, approximately 1948-1952
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Archival Collection
Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00071
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box SH-046 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box SH-046 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Signing official contracts and deeds from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to Boulder City: Joe Manix; Thomas White, M.D.; Albert Franklin; and Morgan Sweeney; Lorraine Kautz; A. B. West; Robert Broadbent; and Milton N. Nathanson, 1960 January 04
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File
Archival Collection
Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00071
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 05 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 05 (Restrictions apply)
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Government and Six Companies officials inspecting the Nevada spillway: Norman S. Gallison, H. J. Lawler, Walker R. Young, Charles A. Shea, E. O. Wattis, Elwood Mead, Frank T. Crave, R. F. Walter, and W. A. Bechtel, 1932 February 09
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File
Archival Collection
Burrell C. Lawton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam
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Collection Number: PH-00120
Collection Name: Burrell C. Lawton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Collection Name: Burrell C. Lawton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam
Box/Folder: Folder 01
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Marion type of 125 electric dragline with 5 cubic yard bucket loading into 30 cubic yard side dump cars at gravel pit. Mikado type locomotives pull 10-car trains, 3 trains of this type in operation: photographic print, 1932 May 03
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Item
Archival Collection
Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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View showing forms set for first side-wall pour in upper portal of tunnel Number 3. Form is 80-feet long and consists of four 20-foot sections bolted together. Note size of man in upper right: photographic print, 1932 April 29
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Item
Archival Collection
Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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Looking upstream in Black Canyon, from the Nevada side, showing Boulder Dam and the Arizona intake towers in center. Arizona spillway shown at upper right. Himix plant at lower left, and government head tower at lower right: photographic print, 1934 April 17
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Item
Archival Collection
Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 02
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 02
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