Oral history interviews with Elton Garrett conducted by Elizabeth Nelson Patrick on December 05, 1980 and December 06, 1980 for the UNLV University Libraries Oral History Collection. In the first interview, Garrett discusses his career in journalism, education, and business. He talks about Boulder City, Nevada in the early 1900s, the Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928), and becoming a writing for the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1931. Garrett talks about Six Companies, Inc., and the Williamsville (Ragtown) camp where dam construction workers lived before housing was completed in Boulder City. In the last interview, Garrett talks about the increase of businesses in Boulder City during the 1930s, permissions required to open a business at the time, and the increase of people moving to the area.
Wilbur Clark and friends with a life preserver advertising "Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn", location unknown, circa 1950s. Pictured L-R: Wilbur Clark, Gwen O'Connor, Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, Marie MacDonald (?). Circa 1950s. Photo by Hyman Fink.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. J. Irving Crowell, Jr., with Jerry, the Airdale, Elizabeth Crowell, Josiah Irving Crowell, Mary Crowell O'Connell, and Annie L. Crowell, wife of Josiah Irving Crowell (identified from left to right).