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Photograph of Temple Bar, Lake Mead, circa 1935-1950

Date

1935 to 1950

Archival Collection

Description

The view of two men standing along the shore of Lake Mead as they gaze upon the rock formation Temple Bar, which is now under water. 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.

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Photograph of the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, Nevada-Arizona border, January 12, 2011

Date

2011-01-12

Description

Photographer's notes: "The form and structure of the bridge, its arch, piers and girders, are revealed in a view from the Nevada canyon wall near the old Nevada hairpin turn. The reflected light of Hoover Dam provides the primary night time illumination of this side of the bridge. January 12, 2011." Site Name: Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge

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Photograph of Grand Canyon Nav. Co. yacht on Lake Mead, 1935

Date

1935

Description

A group of unidentified people clustered around the Grand Canyon Nav. Co. yacht on Lake Mead. The upstream face and intake towers of Hoover Dam can be seen in the background. Handwritten description provided on back of image: "Original pub. picture 1935 catching fish." It may be a famous stunt photo where fish are actually from the Pacific Ocean.

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Transcript of interview with Neil H. Holmes by Laura Bell, February 12, 1975

Date

1975-02-12

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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Clarence Ray oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02432

Abstract

Oral history interview with Clarence Ray conducted by Eleanor L. Walker in 1991 for the African American in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Ray provides details of his ancestry and upbringing, his education, and race relations in the western United States before 1930. He then moves on to his first visit to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1922, and his movements before settling permanently in the 1940s. He explains that the main source of employment for the relatively small Black population during the 1920s and early 1930s was the railroad, but a number were also in business. Mr. Ray provides thumbnail sketches of many of the early residents, and is particularly informative about "Mammy" Pinkston, Mary Nettles, the Stevens family, and the Ensley family. Systemic racial discrimination against Blacks developed in southern Nevada during the 1930s, and Mr. Ray provides some useful details on this along with his discussion of his career in gaming and his social and political activities.

Archival Collection

Transcript of interview with Miriam Belmont by Laurie Brower, March 8, 1975

Date

1975-03-08

Description

Laurie Brower interviews Miriam Belmont (b. 1923), who moved to Nevada in 1928, at her home in Las Vegas. Brower, Belmont, and Belmont’s son are all present during the entirety of the interview. During the interview Belmont discusses her move to Las Vegas, various occupations, education, addresses, church involvement, Hoover Dam, famous people, atomic testing, Old Ranch Country Club in Southern California, and the ways in which Las Vegas had changed since she first arrived.

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Photograph of passenger boat on Lake Mead, Boulder City (Nev.), 1940s

Date

1940 to 1949

Description

Boat passengers race across Lake Mead in a "Sea Craft short run" boat. It travels back and forth between Boulder Beach and the Hoover Dam. People can be seen looking at the photographer of the photo, many wearing hats and sunglasses. Two photographers stand at the front area of the passenger seating, taking pictures of the photographer. Image by Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada.

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Ronzone Family Papers

Identifier

MS-00509

Abstract

Ronzone Family Papers (1900-1991) include newspaper clippings, business documents, correspondence, certificates, yearbooks, publications, artifacts, and photographs. The papers document their lives in Nevada, their department store, and Dick Ronzone's involvement in local politics.

Archival Collection

Harvey W. Boyce's promotion from apprentice to electrician: photographic print

Date

1953-06-04

Description

From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Director of Power L.R.Douglass, of the Bureau of Reclamation's Boulder Canyon project, presents Harvey W. Boyce, his promotion from apprentice to journeyman electrician in a ceremony in the Nevada wing of the Hoover Dam Powerplant on April 16, 1951. A few moments earlier Mr. Boyce had received his certificateof Completion of Apprenticeship for Electrician from John H. Phillips, third from left. Mr. Phillips, an amature-winder at Hoover Dsam, is a member of teh apprenticeship committee of which M. H. Mitchell, Regional Personal Officer, second from left, is chairman. Mr. Boyce was the first Bureau of Reclamation employee to complete the apprenticeship course. The Boulder Canyon Project was the first throughout the Bureau to establish the apprenticeship training program. Left to right are Lloyd Hudlow, Assistant Director of Power, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Phillips, Steve Wenta, cabinet maker and finish carpenter and a member of the apprenticeship committee, Mr. Boyce, Mr. Douglass, and Morgan J. Sweeney, construction and maintenance Superintendent, Boulder Canyon Project.

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