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Photograph of men standing in front of Justice of the Peace and Recorder office, Round Mountain (Nev.), early 1900s
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Archival Collection
Description
Site Name: Office of Justice of the Peace (Round Mountain, Nev.)
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Photograph of Frontier club at night, Las Vegas, circa mid 1930s to early 1950s
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Archival Collection
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Leroy Burt, Joseph Kine, and Tommy Nelson oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Leroy Burt, Joseph Kine, and Tommy Nelson conducted by Dennis McBride on November 10 and 11, 1986 for the Boulder City Library Oral History Project. The men discuss what they had been doing when the depression started in 1929, when they moved to Nevada, and their first jobs in Boulder City and the dam site. They share stories about their work experiences and discuss the different types of work at the dam, including high scalers, form strippers, jackhammer operators, and concrete pouring and puddling. They also talk about incidents and accidents that occurred during production, and the differences in safety standards in the 1930s and the 1980s.
Archival Collection
Harrie Fox Hess oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Harrie Fox Hess conducted by Scot Siegel on February 26, 1979 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Hess discusses how he felt as a young adult moving to Las Vegas, Nevada, his contributions to Nevada through his work as a psychologist, and the first law to be drafted on psychology certification in Nevada. Hess then describes the Wildcat Lair as an important site of social recreation for early Las Vegas youth. He also discusses how workers from the Great Depression paved the way for industrial success in gambling due to their employment on the Boulder (Hoover) Dam.
Archival Collection
Photograph of the Westerner Gambling House (Las Vegas), circa 1950s
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Color Photograph of the facade of the Westerner Gambling House.
Site Name: Westerner
Address: 23 Fremont Street
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Film transparency of street view of Fremont Street (Las Vegas), circa 1932
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Archival Collection
Description
Fremont Street in the 1930s.
Site Name: Fremont Street
Address: Fremont street, Las Vegas, NV
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Aerial photograph of Stateline, Nevada and Lake Tahoe, circa 1961
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial view of Stateline, Nevada.
Site Name: Lake Tahoe
Address: Stateline; Douglas County; Nevada
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Photograph of Harrah's Tahoe front entrance (Stateline, Nev.), circa mid 1960s
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Front entrance and marquee of Harrah's Tahoe.
Site Name: Harrah's Tahoe
Address: 15 Highway 50
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Photograph of Goldfield Hotel, Goldfield (Nev.), early 1900s
Archival Collection
Description
Site Name: Goldfield Hotel (Goldfield, Nev.)
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Photograph of the Vegas Home Bakery and Delicatessen, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
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Archival Collection
Description
Site Name: Vegas Home Bakery and Delicatessen (Las Vegas, Nev.)
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