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Subject

Jamey Stillings Photographs

Identifier

PH-00380

Abstract

The Jamey Stillings Photographs (2009-2024) is primarily comprised of photographs taken by professional photographer, Jamey Stillings, of the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge and the Hoover Dam project, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System project, the Crescent Dunes Solar project, and Tapping the Colorado project. The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge and the Hoover Dam project depict the construction of the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge from 2009 to 2012. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System project depict aerial views of Ivanpah Solar in the Mojave Desert of California from 2010 to 2014. The Crescent Dunes Solar project consists of a range of aerial and ground-based work documenting SolarReserve's Crescent Dunes Solar, a 110MW concentrated solar plant with molten salt storage near Tonopah, Nevada, from 2014 to 2015. The Tapping the Colorado project consists of aerial work documenting the historically critical water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell in 2021 and 2022.

Archival Collection

Seventeen members of an electric power study group from Korea: photographic print

Date

1963-02-18

Description

Seventeen members of an electric power study group from Korea, having completed a six months' on-the-job training program in the American electric power industry under sponsorship of the International Cooperation Administration visited Hoover Dam Sept. 22, 1958 on their way home. Far left: Boulder Canyon Project Manager L. J. Hudlow, host to the group; Behind group, (American wearing plaid shirt), is R. L. Legler, Electrical Engineer, Bureau of Reclamation. (For rest of identification see accompanying sheet.)

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Finder, Esther Toporek, 1953-

Esther Toporek Finder was the president and founder of Generations of the Shoah – Nevada (GS-N), an organization based in Las Vegas, Nevada for the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. GS-N's mission is to support local Holocaust survivors and educate community members about the Holocaust and its legacy.

Person

Aizley, Sari, 1934-2017

Sari Aizley was born January 10, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she was in a Jewish minority. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada as a single mother who worked for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where she also earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees. Aizley worked for the Jewish Family Services, American Civil Liberties Union, sold advertising for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and starting the memorable CLASS! Newspaper with her son, David Phillips, and her husband Paul. For 16 years, CLASS!

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