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Letter from Clayton V. Smith to C. McLeod, June 19, 1913
Date
1913-06-19
Archival Collection
Description
Letter concerns bills and checks for freight shipments.
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Letter to C. McLeod, May 15, 1913
Date
1913-05-15
Archival Collection
Description
Letter to C. McLeod on Potosi Mine stationery; bottom half of page is missing. Author unknown; Probably written by W.E. Smith or Clayton V. Smith.
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Letter from W. E. Smith to C. McLeod, October 14, 1913
Date
1913-10-14
Archival Collection
Description
Letter concerns billing for cars of ore.
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Letter from Clayton V. Smith to C. McLeod, June 5, 1913
Date
1915-06-15
Archival Collection
Description
Letter concerns ore stamping.
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Blueprint of a passenger station for the Union Pacific Railroad Company, August, 1939
Date
1939-08
Archival Collection
Description
Sheet A-5 of 11 sheets. Job number 150. Passenger station for Union Pacific Railroad Company, Las Vegas, Nevada. Blueprint includes plans and details of column and beam connection for arcade, framing arcade roof at northwest corner, letters on exterior, canopy at baggage room entrance, sections over check room, straight arcade connection to wall, south wall of cooling tower, south wall of equipment room, and framing plans for second floor over check room and canopy and typical curved arcade roof and east entrance canopy.
Site Name: Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Station (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Site Name: Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Station (Las Vegas, Nev.)
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Photograph of Jake Beckley and Ed Von Tobel, Sr. in front of the Ed. Von Tobel Lumber Company, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1905 to 1976
Archival Collection
Description
Ed Von Tobel, Sr. and Jake Beckley stand in front of the Von Tobel Lumber Company on South First Street in Las Vegas. Pictured are the office, lumber storage, shed and sales room. Beckley, Ed. Von Tobel Sr.'s business partner is seen standing on a horse-drawn wagon on the left. Behind the wagon are stacked shingles. The lumber company was founded in 1905, shortly after the Las Vegas townsite lot auction, but moved from its original location on South Main Street when that proved to be "too far out of town" for business. The South First Street building was destroyed by fire in 1914. Photograph taken 1905?-1906?
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Photograph of the first public train into Las Vegas from Los Angeles, Las Vegas (Nev.), May 15, 1905
Date
1905-05-15
Archival Collection
Description
The image was taken within the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad's rail yard. In the center of the photograph is a large crowd of people who have just arrived. To the left is passenger cars, to the right freight cars, in the background center is the first depot in Las Vegas, a railroad car. Photographer is believed to have been Ed Von Tobel, Sr. The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad offered a special rate of sixteen dollars to those coming in for the auction of lots within Clark's Las Vegas Townsite. If an individual purchased property, the amount of the ticket would be refunded.
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Photograph of a crowd gathered for the Los [sic] Vegas Democratic delegation for county division, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Undated photograph, approximate date 1908. A group of men, accompanied by two boys standing in front of a wooden hotel. Two signs pictured state, "For County Division" and "Los [sic] Vegas Democratic Delegation for County Division." The Lincoln County Division Club was formed in Las Vegas in July 1908 to convince the state government to separate the Las Vegas area from Lincoln County and make Las Vegas the new county seat. Lincoln County covered the entire southeastern portion of Nevada at this time and government administration was conducted from Pioche. Petitions for county division had started as early as 1905. Clark County was eventually founded on July 1, 1909.
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Photograph of students and teachers outside of a school, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
School children and teachers pose outside a one-story wooden building identified as "the only school in Las Vegas at the time". The school building was moved by railroad from Rhyolite to the corner of 2nd Street and Lewis in Las Vegas. People identified in the photo are, beginning with front row, left to right: #1: sister of #5 (name unknown); #5: sister of #1 (name unknown); #7: Kessler ( Ernie May's sister); #9: Otto "Kelly" Westlake; #10: Ernie May; #29 Older son of Tom Squires; #38: Tom Lake; #40: Mrs. Palmer (teacher who ran the high school); #41: Mrs. Bartlet (teacher who ran the grammar school). Approximate date between 1905-1910.
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