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Photograph of settling basins at Hemenway Wash, Clark County, circa 1931
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Settling basin at the head of Hemenway Wash for water purification works in Boulder City.
Transcribed Notes: Notes on photo sleeve: Water tank gravel plant at head of Hemenway Wash. (Nov. 8, 1931) Clarified water from river was then pumped up to Boulder City. (Credit: W.A. Davis) (According to W.A. Davis, this settling basin was for water purification.)
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Photograph of water pump in Colorado River used for upper concrete batch plant, circa 1931
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Pump in the Colorado River for the upper concrete batch plant
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Pump used to get water to upper batch plant."
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Aerial photograph of Alamo, Nevada, from an overlooking hill, circa 1922
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Alamo, Nevada from an overlooking hill
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "About 1922 - Alamo - Looked like this."; Transcribed from photo sleeve: "An aerial of Alamo, Nevada ca. 1922"
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Aerial photograph of Downtown Henderson looking south towards Railroad Pass, circa 1963
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial view of Henderson looking south towards Railroad Pass
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Aerial view of Downtown Henderson, NV"
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Photograph of Elbert Edwards at Fort Callville, Nevada, circa 1938
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Elbert Edwards standing on one of the walls of Fort Callville nearly surrounded by the rising waters of Lake Mead.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Elbert Edwards at the ruins of Fort Callville as the waters of Lake Mead rise to cover them. (ca. 1938-39)"
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Photograph of the top of the St. Thomas, Nevada school, Lake Mead, circa June, 1938
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The remains of the St. Thomas school building about to disappear under the waters of Lake Mead.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "The last of a once modern high school building (St. Thomas) about to disappear forever."
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Photograph of a Union Pacific Railroad crew dismantling the St. Thomas rail spur, Nevada, circa 1938
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The Union Pacific Railroad sends a wrecking crew into the St. Thomas area to reclaim several miles of branch line.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Even the Union Pacific Railway hurriedly sends a wrecking crew into the area to reclaim several miles of branch line that would otherwise wind up along the lake bottom."
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Photograph of St. Thomas, Nevada ruins and Lake Mead, circa July, 1938
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The remains of a house in St. Thomas being covered by water.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Ruins of the town of St. Thomas as waters of Lake Mead rise."
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Photograph of remains of early canals of the 1860s built by members of the Muddy-Cotton Mission, circa 1948
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Elbert Edwards and another man standing in a dry irrigation canal in the Moapa Valley.
Transcribed Notes: Handwritten inscription on back
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Photograph of farmland on the T & T Ranch, Nevada, circa 1953
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Men irrigating new alfalfa on the T & T Ranch in the Amargosa Valley.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Irrigating land newly planted in alfalfa, T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, about 1952 or 1954. Gordon Bettles is pictured with the shovel. The child pictured in the foreground is a niece of Bob Fishel and Betty Lou Kemp, daughter of M.P. Gless' Glessner. Note the profile of the sleeping old man silhouetted along the crest of the Funeral Mountains."
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