Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 2521 - 2530 of 70135

Photograph of Lake Mead approaching the Lost City restorations, spring 1938

Date

1938

Description

The waters of Lake Mead are approaching the Lost City restorations

Image

Photograph of faculty member, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1924-1943

Date

1942 to 1943

Description

Unidentified Boulder City High School faculty member.

Image

Postcard of the Hoover Dam site, Boulder City (Nev.), 1931-1975

Date

1931 to 1975

Description

An illustrated postcard of the Hoover Dam site in Boulder City.

Image

Photograph of reburial in Lost City, Valley of Fire, circa 1933

Date

1932 to 1934

Description

Site of reburial of a dozen or more skeletons found in the valley near the ruins of The Lost City Pueblo. Slabs of stones were placed at the head of each grave. Back of photo identifies this as Valley of Fire. (Photographer W.A. Davis says this is not the Valley of Fire].

Image

Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada

Identifier

PH-00022

Abstract

The Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada (1920-1985) contains photographs of the Hoover Dam, Colorado River, and Boulder City, Nevada. The photographs depict the construction of the Hoover Dam from 1931 to 1936, views of the dam after it was finished, and workers building the dam.

Archival Collection

Leo Dunbar, Harry Hall, Carl Merrill, Mary Ann Merrill, and Harold Wadman oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02080

Abstract

Oral history interview with Leo Dunbar, Harry Hall, Harold Wadman, Carl Merrill, and Mary Ann Merrill conducted by Dennis McBride on June 24, 1986 for the Boulder City Library Oral History Project. The interviewees discuss their early lives and families, moving to Nevada, and starting work on the Hoover Dam. They recall memories of living in Boulder City, Nevada during the Great Depression and beyond, and share information about the construction of the dam and the city as well as personal stories about their lives in Southern Nevada.

Archival Collection

Map of the city of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and the "Strip", 1956

Date

1956

Description

40 x 37 cm., folded to 28 x 15 cm. Copyright held by Robert E. Barringer. Panel title: Welcome map, greater Las Vegas area and scenic routes to and from there. Includes inset map of Boulder City. Map of California from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Las Vegas by Beth Bergh on verso. Includes notes. Index on verso. Includes advertisements for Las Vegas and California businesses. Original publisher: Redwood Publishing Co..

Image

Photograph of water pipe being laid near Boulder City, Nevada, 1931

Date

1931

Description

Laying pipe for Boulder City's water supply near Boulder City, Nevada . (1931)

Image