Materials contain photographs of the Wilson Family in the Kawich Mountains from 1914 to 1987. Materials include photographs of Robert "Bob" Wilson operating his mining equipment in Ophir Canyon, his cyanide plant, his mill site, and the dredge in Manhattan. Materials also include photographs of Wilson and his family in Nevada and in California.
Archival Collection
Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00221 Collection Name: Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection Box/Folder: N/A
This set includes: exterior perspectives, site plans, foundation plans, floor plans, exterior elevations, building sections, wall sections, framing plans, roof plans, finish/door schedules and interior elevations.
This set includes drawings by Claude MacClayton Davis Ltd (architect).
Archival Collection
Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings
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Collection Number: MS-00439 Collection Name: Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings Box/Folder: Roll 341
This set includes drawings for Fred and Ernie Crossley (client).
This set includes: site plans, floor plans, interior elevations, foundation plans, roof plans, framing plans, exterior elevations, building sections, electrical plans, finish/door/window schedules and construction details.
Archival Collection
Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings
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Collection Number: MS-00439 Collection Name: Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings Box/Folder: Roll 410
A crew performing an excavation at Pueblo Grande de Nevada, also known as the "Lost City," near Overton, Nevada. Description provided with image: "At the Lost City Dig-1926."
This set includes drawings by American Condominium Corp. of Nevada (client) and Riverwoods Development Corp. (client) by Gerald A. Estes (architect), Schipporeit Inc. (architect), and Alca Engineering and Surveying, Inc (engineer).
Archival Collection
Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings
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Collection Number: MS-00439 Collection Name: Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings Box/Folder: Roll 127
On February 9, 1980, collector Stephen M. Singer interviewed schoolteacher, Lomie Heard (born January 22nd, 1906 in Carlsbad, New Mexico) in her home in Las Vegas, Nevada. This interview covers education over the span of thirty years, and includes an overview on the building of the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Also discussed during this interview: Nellis Air Force Base, jet airplanes at Nellis, military families, and the Nevada Test Site.
The Mary and Arthur Ackerman Aerial Photograph Collection consists of eleven black-and-white large format aerial photographs. Ten photographs show areas of the Las Vegas Strip along Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas, Nevada. The remaining photograph shows the site of Disneyland in Anaheim, California.