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Lois Kellogg with her prize heifer on the Arlemont Ranch, Fish Lake Valley: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.K. Miscellaneous. Lois Kellogg with her prize heifer on the Arlemont Ranch, Fish Lake Valley, Nevada, 1940 or 1941. Kellogg was born September 29, 1894, and would have been approximately 45 years old at the time this picture was taken. She purchased The Arlemont Ranch in 1938 or 1939, and raised Russian wolfhounds. It is said That she kept 125 Russian wolfhounds on the ranch. George Ishmael was the Ranch Foreman.
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Report, The flood control program - Moapa area, after 1942
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Archival Collection
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Cost of Civilian Conservation Corp work in the Moapa Valley and the benefits accrued to the residents of the valley.
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Scoyen, Eivind T.
Eivind T. Scoyen was the first permanent superintendent of Zion and Bryce National Parks in the 1920s. (https://books.google.com/books?isbn=080471682X; foreword)
He was also the superintendent of Glacier National Park, Montana, from Jan. 16, 1931 to Dec. 31, 1938, (https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/tolson/histlist7g.htm)
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LVLWC Las Vegas lease termination notices
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Archival Collection
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Water Supply - check of coolers
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Archival Collection
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Mixed Content
Letter from Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce to R. H. Rutledge (Washington, D.C.), with petition by Moapa Valley residents, June 1939
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Archival Collection
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Letter dated June 27, 1939, from the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce supporting a petition date June 21, 1939, by property owners and taxpayers living in the Moapa Valley area of Clark County, Nevada. The petition requested that the area be placed under the control of the Division of Grazing. Such a designation would restrict the removal of timber from watershed areas and help prevent the effects of erosion due to flooding. According to the Bureau of Land Management, Grazing District No. 5 is Las Vegas, established November 3, 1936.
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Photographs of John Lewis rally, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1999 May 3, (folder 1 of 1)
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Archival Collection
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Arrangement note: Series I. Demonstrations, Subseries I.B. Other Demonstrations and Strikes
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