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Photograph of students in a school classroom, Boulder City, Nevada, January 17, 1947

Date

1947-01-17

Description

Description provided with image: "One of the two rooms situated in the basement of Building No. 1, particularly undesirable because of poor lighting and low ceiling. The small window is one of three providing natural light for this room. Jan. 17, 1947. Boulder City, Nevada."

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Letter and envelope from Rose Young, Provo City, Utah to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada

Date

1894-07-26

Archival Collection

Description

From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, an envelope, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached.

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Postcard of Julia Bulette and John Millain scene, Virginia City, Nevada, 1867 - early 1900s

Date

1867 to 1939

Description

An artist's depiction of Julia Bulette's theft and murder by John Millain. The caption on the front of the card reads: "Julia Bulette; Murdered for her Jewels by John Millain, 1887. J. M hung in 1868." A lengthy description printed on the back of the card reads: "Julia Bulette came to Virginia City while it was still a raw camp, and was soon among its best known figures. Reputedly a French Creole from New Orleans, tall, dark, lithe and witty, she was no ordinary lady of the line. Her secret charities were innumerable, her public services many, and her entertainments memorable for both cuisine and conversation. During the deadly black-water plague of 1861, she made her house into a hospital, nursed the stricken miners, and pawned her belongings to help their families. She was chosen an honorary member of Engine Company Number 1, but, not content with honorary status, attended the fires, worked a stirrup pump, and served refreshments to the Company afterwards. She was not one to seek obscurity or tolerate condescension. In the flush years of the first boom, she paraded C Street daily in a coach with four aces fanned upon the door, and sat nightly in her own box at the opera house, with a sable cape across her shoulders. When the ladies of the upper city sought to confine her activities, she retaliated by crashing their parties and making them her own. As a result, her violent death during the night of January 20, 1867, precipitated a cold war of the sexes. When her funeral procession, long, entirely masculine, and led by a band playing a dead-march, moved out B Street toward Old Flowery Cemetery, the wives in the hill mansions sat behind closed doors and drawn shutters, though even those could not defend them from the sprightly, returning strains of "The Girl I Left Behind Me." And conversely, when John Millain was arrested, some months later, after selling articles recognized as Julie's, his trial by the men was something less than impartial, but he was constantly visited in prison by women who showered him with gifts and tears. That his hanging, in April of 1868, drew the largest crowd in Virginia's history to the hollow north of town where the gallows was erected, the women to the ringside seats and the men to the slopes behind them, was less a tribute to Millain himself than a result of the fact that he was dying as the murderer of Julie Bulette, more nearly a Queen of the Comstock than any of her wealthy "betters" who vied for the title. "Sazarac" Virginia City, Nevada."

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Photograph of Hoover Dam mascot dog, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1931-1936

Date

1931 to 1936

Description

A view of the Hoover Dam mascot, a dog, near Boulder City, Nevada. The caption on the image reads: "'Nig', the Hoover Dam mascot."

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Film transparency of workers for the Boulder Canyon Project, Boulder City, Nevada, August, 1931

Date

1931

Description

Workers for the Boulder Canyon Project gathered at a Six Companies dormitory in Boulder City, Nevada during the August 1931 labor strike.

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Slide of government tents, near Boulder City, Nevada, April 10, 1931

Date

1931-04-10

Description

A black and white image of government-issued tents set up near Boulder City for people working on Hoover Dam.

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Architectural drawing of Harrah's Resort Atlantic City, south elevation, November 28, 1983

Date

1983-11-28

Description

Conceptual sketches of Harrah's Marina Hotel Casino, Atlantic City. 'SK-2C.' Scale: 1/32 inch = 1 foot. Includes thumbnail sketch of trough along roof parapet for plants and vines.
Site Name: Harrah's Marina Resort (Atlantic City)
Address: 777 Harrah's Boulevard, Atlantic City, NJ

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Charles J. Hirsch: Rotary Club of Kansas City meeting materials, Kansas City, Kansas

Date

1962

Archival Collection

Description

Folder from the Charles J. Hirsch Papers -- Conference material, meetings minutes, and programs file.

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Photograph of boys at a bus depot, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1947-1950

Date

1947 to 1950

Description

A group of boys posing on a bench at a bus depot in Boulder City, Nevada. In the back row, Otto Lettler is identified as the second boy from the left. In the front row, the identified boys are as follows: Rudolph Maltz, second from left; Ted Lettler, fifth from left; and Bert Coe, seventh from left.

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Film transparency of Boulder City, Nevada, December 15, 1933-June, 1934

Date

1933 to 1934

Archival Collection

Description

Panoramic view of houses from the water tank in Boulder City. This photo was taken between December 15, 1933 and June, 1934.

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