Principles involved in the signing of the Boulder Dam bill. L-R: Elwood Mead, Phil Swing, President Calvin Coolidge, Sen. Hiram Johnson, Addison T. Smith, and W.B. Matthews. Text on photo reads: "Public Service History Written as Boulder Dam Bill Is Signed. December 21, 1928. Elwood Mead, Commissioner of Reclamation. Phil Swing, M. C. Cali., Author Boulder Dam bill House of Representatives. President Coolidge. Senator Hiram Johnson, Author Boulder Dam bill in United States Senate. Addison T. Smith, M. C. Idaho, Chairman, Committee on Reclamation, House of Representatives. W. B. Matthews. General Counsel, Boulder Dam Association, Los Angeles."
Rotary scholarship winners with Dave Wells (center), President of Las Vegas Rotary Club. L-R: Rebecca Marzan, Valley High School; Linda Magnus, Gorman High School; Wells; Becky Tilley, Chaparral High; James Deakin, Las Vegas High School.
The Pee Wee "Coyotes" Little League baseball team, North Las Vegas, Nevada, May 28, 1975. Front row, left to right: Warren Hampton, Anthony Richardson, Ricky Finkler, Randy Smith, Jerry Pennell, David McDonald, Tommy Pennell, Trevor Pennell. Back row, left to right: Ignatio Navarez, Freddie McGowan, Dennis [LeChase], Shawn [Leake], Jerome Hill, Brian Smith, Coach Don Pennell.
U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds (the Air Force's aerial demonstration team) pilots sit in their planes with canopies open, during an open house at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Planes are labeled with the pilots' names, L-R: SSgt Ramón Badia; Lt Col D. L. Smith; Rob McCall; (?) Shackelford; Capt. Ron Maness; SSgt Mike Cook; Capt Jim Latham; Carl Priddy; Maj. Jim Coziahr; Capt. [Gail] "Scar"Scarborough, Capt. R. D. Evans. Site Name: Nellis Air Force Base (Nev.)
'Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey. TEI-840.' 'Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.' 'Contours in northwest Las Vegas Valley from Malmberg, 1961.' Relief shown by contours. Shows township and range lines. Scale [ca. 1:253,440. 1 in.=aprrox. 4 miles] (W 114°00´--W 115°00´--N 37°00´/N 36°00´). Originally published in A summary of the ground-water hydrology of the area between the Las Vegas Valley and the Amargosa Desert, Nevada : with special reference to the effects of possible new withdrawals of ground water / by Isaac J. Winograd, published by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1963 as number 840 of the Trace elements investigations report.