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Film strip of Boulder City or Hoover Dam construction, image 014: photographic print
Date
1930 (year approximate) to 1939 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
This photograph has three images. The first one (0272_0062) shows the Nevada-side of dam and the intake towers. The picture reads, "Nevada intakes in their infancy. Another kind of stiff leg to handle material for intake towers on Nevada side, see the monkey slide and wiggling stairway - small view of head tower for hi-lines in upper corner." The second one (0272_0063) reads "Good view of rebar that goes into intake towers. Very heavy reinforcement steel. I tied steel a half shift one night. On this tower, Nevada side, and two nights later." The third one (0272_0064) has a handwritten inscription that reads, "A beautiful sight. Intake tower at night."
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Film strip of Boulder City or Hoover Dam construction, image 016: photographic print
Date
1930 (year approximate) to 1939 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
This photograph has three images. The first one (0272_0066) reads, "High and low level (x) is location of control gates. When completed - 380 ft. high - 85 ft. diameter at base - cylinder gates, at base, and 150 ft. higher. Steel and concrete bridges connect towers to the dam control house on each tower to operate gates - weighting half million pounds." The second one (0272_0067) reads, "Babcock and Wilcox Plant - 'Home of 30' pipe' - Being unable to transport large pipe by rail - it was necessary to build an onsite plant 1 1%2 mi. from dam." The third image (0272_0068) has a handwritten inscription that reads, "Lowering first section of 50 ton pipe to 80' penstocks leading from intake towers."
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Film strip of individuals or Hoover Dam construction, image 011: photographic print
Date
1930 (year approximate) to 1939 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
This photograph has three images. The first one (0272_0078) reads "'Form Raising Crew' - cont. - Whitie, Indiana 'Hoosier', lining the bolt up from inside. Always looking for a hammer, or bar, when it was time to climb over the top." The second one (0272_0079) reads, "Drilling jumbo in mouth of spillway tunnel," as a handwritten inscription. The third image (0272_0080) reads, "Nevada spillway with flood gates lowered. Notice size of man in gates. Constructed to prevent flood waters from overflowing dam. Each spillway - capable of passing 200,00 cu. ft. per second."
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Film strip of Boulder City or Hoover Dam construction, image 018: photographic print
Date
1934 to 1935
Archival Collection
Description
This photograph has three images. The first one (0272_0094) shows the Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City, Nevada. The inscription reads, "A new building built in 1934-35. Needed to accommodate influx of visitors to the dam." The second one (0272_0095) depicts a residential section in Boulder City, Nevada. It reads "City built for government men - very neat - with green grass and ornamental plants - in the far distance were small houses for dam workers with families." The third image (0272_0096) has a handwritten inscription that reads, "Dam is completed, visitors driving along the top for a thrill. Water has backed up to height of lower intake valve."
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Bullfrog Mining District panorama: photographic print
Date
1906
Archival Collection
Description
A panoramic photo of the Bullfrog Mining District taken in 1906 by well-known Rhyolite photographer A. E. Holt. Written on negative by Holt: "Panorama looking north west from Shoshone Bullfrog Gold property showing country east of Montgomery property." Image also names five mines with corresponding numbers which locate the mines on the photo. Those listed are: "1. Montgomery Shoshone, 2. Lucky Jack, 3. Red Oak, 4. Pittsburgh, and 5. Shoshone Bullfrog Gold."
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Officials present for Boulder City's incorporation ceremony in Boulder City, Nevada: photographic print
Date
1964-03-16
Archival Collection
Description
From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). L-R: unidentified; Art Olson, Clark County Commissioner; Harold Corbin, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Boulder City Manager; Dr. Henry J. Reining, Dean of the College of Administration, USC at Los Angeles; Albert Franklin, Boulder City Councilman; Bob Broadbent, Boulder City Mayor; Dr. Thomas S. White, Boulder City Councilman; Grant Sawyer, Governor of Nevada; William Byrne, Henderson, Nevada mayor; Morgan J. Sweeney, Boulder City Councilman; Arleigh West, Acting Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation at Boulder City; Joe Manix, Boulder City Councilman; N.E. Broadbent, Mayor of Ely, Nevada; B. Mahlon Brown, Nevada state senator; Harley Harmon, Clark County Commission Chairman; Jake Dieleman, Nevada state assemblyman.
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Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, Senate Education Appropriation Committee staff director Harley Dirks, Senator Howard W. Cannon, and United States Representative James David Santini meet to discuss funding of Nevada education programs: photographic print
Date
1975 (year approximate) to 1983 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)
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Various views of the Latter-day Saints Chapel in North Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints
Date
1939 to 1958 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the Ray W. Baldwin Photograph Collection (PH-00194) -- Buildings designed by architect Ray W. Baldwin, in the Las Vegas area from 1939 to about 1958. Image one: L.D.S. Chapel, in North Las Vegas, probably on White Street. Image two: L.D.S. Chapel, North Las Vegas, probably on White Street. Image three: View of another side of the L.D.S. Chapel in North Las Vegas, probably on White Street. Image four: Back view of the L.D.S. Chapel in North Las Vegas, probably on White Street. Image five: Another view of the L.D.S. Chapel during its construction in North Las Vegas, probably on White Street. Image six: Front view of the L.D.S. Chapel, in North Las Vegas, probably on White Street.
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Citizens' Library Assocation members: photographic print
Date
1952
Archival Collection
Description
From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248). Standing identified from left to right: K. O. Knudson, Paul McDermott, Cyril Wengert, Clesse Turner, Harry Manente, Milton Keefer, and Sherwin Garside (second vice president). Seated, identified from left to right: Peggy Petrie, Leona Ault, Nellie Bunch, Beda Cornwall, Laura Belle Kelch, and Reba McKinster. Stamped on the back of the photograph, "Photo by Nevada Studios 106 No. 3rd Las Vegas, Nevada".
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Las Vegas Public Library Open House: photographic print
Date
1955
Archival Collection
Description
From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248). Las Vegas Public Library third anniversary open house. Reba McKinster, Librarian (second from left); Lillian Fleury (third from left); Beda Cornwall (third from right) and Mrs. Ernest King (second from right). On the sign, "The founding of a Library is one of the greatest things we can do... Everyone able to read a good book becomes a wiser man... A collection of good books contains all the nobleness & wisdom of the world before us. A collection of books is the best of all universities... Thomas Carlyle". Stamped on the back of the photograph, "City of Las Vegas Department of Recreation".
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