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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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Photograph of irrigated farmland on the T & T Ranch, Nevada, circa 1953
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Irrigating new alfalfa on the T & T Ranch in the Amargosa Valley.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Irrigated land newly planted in alfalfa. T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, Ca. 1954."
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Postcard of Lorenzi Park, Las Vegas, circa 1930
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The ponds at Lorenzi Park, Las Vegas
Transcribed Notes: Printed on front of postcard: Lorenzi Park at Las Vegas, Nevada; Oakes Photo; Printed on back of postcard: Lorenzi Park at Las Vegas comprises eleven acres of water from artesian wells, furnishing boating, swimming and irrigation.; Also space for one-cent stamp; Printed by Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Chicago, U.S.A.
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Photograph of Hoover Dam worker beside the Colorado River, circa 1931
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Hoover Dam worker and an Ingersoll Rand electric generator beside the Colorado River looking Northwest towards the Hemenway Wash.
Transcribed Notes: Written on back: 4-18-31
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Photograph of steamshovel working on the road to the Hoover Dam construction site, circa 1931
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Steamshovel working on the road to the Hoover Dam construction site looking east over the Colorado River.
Transcribed Notes: Written on back: 4-18-31
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Photograph of a Union Pacific tour-bus on Highway 93, Nevada, circa 1933
Date
Archival Collection
Description
A Union Pacific tour-bus in a pullout overlooking Hemenway Wash off Highway 93.
Transcribed Notes: Written on back: 9-20-33
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Aerial photograph of University of Nevada, Las Vegas, circa 1977
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial view of UNLV. Also showing part of Las Vegas north of the university. Photograph follows Maryland Parkway north from about Tropicana Avenue. Both downtown Las Vegas and North Las Vegas can be seen in the distance.
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Photograph of U. S. Navy deep-sea divers conducting Lake Mead sedimentation survey, circa 1948
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Deep sea divers conducting a sedimentation survey on Lake Mead
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