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Julie Brinkerhoff-Jacobs oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02852

Abstract

Oral history interview with Julie Brinkerhoff-Jacobs conducted by Stefani Evans on September 30, 2016 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. Brinkerhoff-Jacobs talks about her childhood in Southern California and Europe, the history of Lifescapes International, how she came into the business, and how the company came to do most of the major projects on Las Vegas, Nevada Strip as well as other Clark County locations.

Archival Collection

Photograph of Frazier Hall construction, Nevada Southern University, Las Vegas, circa 1956

Date

1956

Description

Description typed onto the back of the image: "Building Maude Frazier Hall, 1st building on UNLV Campus. Fall, 1956."

Image

Photograph of Brewington and Pittman family members, Ely (Nev.), September 27, 1938

Date

1938-09-27

Archival Collection

Description

Members of the Brewington and Pittman families celebrating the golden wedding anniversary of Dr. and Mrs. George F. Brewington (parents of Ida Pittman, wife of Nevada Governor Vail M. Pittman), in the Pittman's home in Ely, Nevada. Seated, L-R: Frances R. Brewington, George F. Brewington, Rose (Farrell) Brewington, Ann E. Brewington. Standing, L-R: Nevada Governor Vail M. Pittman, Ida Louise "Liz" (Brewington) Pittman. Frances Brewington and Ann Brewington, sisters to Ida Pittman, served as a public health nurse in Boulder City, Nevada, and as a teacher of business education at the University of Chicago, respectively.

Image

Photograph of Masonic Lodge members outside hall, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950s-1960s

Date

1950 to 1969

Description

Members of the Las Vegas Masonic Lodge posed in front of the exterior of their hall. Street Address: 632 East Charleston Boulevard

Image

Photograph of an outhouse over an irrigation ditch in Corn Creek, Nevada, circa 1938

Date

1938 (year approximate)

Archival Collection

Description

An outhouse located over an irrigation ditch in Corn Creek, Nevada

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: Outhouse over irrigation ditch

Image

Postcard showing Old Fort Callville near Las Vegas, before 1938

Date

1928 to 1938

Description

Colorized photograph of Fort Callville on the banks of the Colorado River.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of postcard: "Fort Collville (sic) on the Colorado above the Hoover Dam was established in early days as a trading post and terminus for river boats plying up the river from the gulf to this point. The old fort will be entirely under water when the lake is formed by the construction of Hoover Dam."

Image

Photograph of a grinding slab metate at the Lost City, Clark County, before 1938

Date

1930 to 1938

Description

Grinding slab metate at the Lost City with numerous holes

Transcribed Notes: Notes on photo sleeve Los City, Nevada. Holes and stones were used to grind grains, etc. (Credit: W.A. Davis); 'Gypsum Cave, bedrock mortars near cave' - W.A. Davis

Image

Photograph of man and woman standing in front of building, St. Thomas, 1935-1938

Date

1935 to 1938

Description

Lorraine and her father standing in front of the shell of a building, probably Hannig's Ice Cream Parlor, in antediluvian St. Thomas. Handwritten on bottom left corner: St. Thomas Nev.

Image

Memo from Walter R. Bracken to W. H. Hulsizer about water usage, March 28, 1938

Date

1938-03-28

Archival Collection

Description

Water used by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company and the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company in 1932

Text

Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups by Julian H. Steward, 1938

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Archaeo-Nevada Society Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00728
Collection Name: Archaeo-Nevada Society Records
Box/Folder: Box 13

Archival Component