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County agent project report, Erosion-flood control, April 1938

Date

1938-04

Description

Summary of situation, goals, duties of cooperating agencies, and procedures regarding the effort to prevent flooding and erosion threatening properties and silting Lake Mead. Cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics, University of Nevada Agricultural Extension Division and United States Department of Agricultural Cooperating. Project Number: State Office #172, Clark County #12.

Text

Memo from Edward C. Renwick to E. E. Bennett about the purchase price given to the Las Vegas Valley Water District, August 26, 1952

Date

1952-08-26

Archival Collection

Description

Detailed discussion of why the purchase price set by the Nevada Public Service Commission for the purchase by the Las Vegas Valley Water District was too low.

Text

C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada

Identifier

PH-00350

Abstract

The C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada (approximately 1900-1915) contains individual black-and-white photographic prints, photographic albums, black-and-white and tinted postcards, and photographic negatives that document the history of early twentieth century Goldfield, Nevada. The images include photographic prints of Goldfield and surrounding areas during its peak years of 1906-1910; postcards showing scenes of Goldfield, Tonopah, and other areas in central Nevada; and negatives that contain images of Rinker's family and homelife in Indiana and Illinois.

Archival Collection

Hoover Dam album, image 018

Date

1931 to 1936

Description

Site of Boulder Dam, 1931 [left], Boating on Boulder Lake famous Fortification Hill in background [right], 1931-1936

Image

Hoover Dam album, image 020

Date

1931 to 1936

Description

High scaling during early constuction at Boulder Dam [left], Transporting men by cableway, Boulder Dam [middle], Boulder Dam dowstream face and power house [right], 1931-1936

Image

Hoover Dam album, image 021

Date

1931 to 1936

Description

Babcock and Wilcox Steel Co., Boulder Dam [left], Section of 30-foot of Penstock pipe on 200-ton trailer, Boulder Dam [right], 1931-1936

Image

Hoover Dam album, image 022

Date

1931 to 1936

Description

Lowering 180-ton section of Penstock Pipe, Boulder Dam, 1931-1936

Image