The view of where the Hoover Dam was to be built on the Colorado River in Black Canyon. Typed onto the front of the page: "Boulder Canyon. The dam is calculated to be 200 feet wide at the base, 600 feet high above water level, 1,000 feet wide at the top and extend 130 feet below water level at bedrock. This great dam would be capable of holding a year and one-half average flow of the Colorado River. Every dollar expended in this gigantic enterprise will pass through Las Vegas, Nevada - the Gateway to the Boulder Canyon Damsite - 36 miles away. The families of many of the men employed during construction days will reside in Las Vegas which will mean an increase in population and business. The power generated by the dam will mean wonderful possibilities in agriculture and mining; a smelter, factories, and other industries which will make Las Vegas the metropolis of Nevada."

Photo includes Union Pacific Railroad depot, Las Vegas Drug Store, laundry business and other buildings. The view is south-western with the intersection of Ogden Street and Main Street visible in the right center of the photograph. Approximate date 1909.

An automobile and a wagon appear in the photograph with scenery in the background.

Children gathered in front of a school in Paradise Valley, Nevada in the early 1900s.

Transcribed from photograph, "Southern Paiute - 3. Southern Nevada's ancient salt miners at work in Salt Cave. Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, Bureau of American Ethnology Collection." The items pictured in the photo are labeled.