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Photograph of Wilbur Clark, Merle Clark and Harold Clark, circa 1913-1916

Date

1913 to 1916

Archival Collection

Description

Wilbur Clark (left) with his sister Merle Clark, and brother Harold Clark as children, probably in Keyesport Illinois.

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Photographs of Ward, Jimmie, and Marilyn Wengert, circa 1928

Date

1927 to 1929

Archival Collection

Description

Portraits of Ward, Jimmie, and Marilyn Wengert as children. Marilyn Wengert married in 1946, and changed her last name to Gatewood.

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Slide of a cottage built by Six Companies, Boulder City, Nevada, January 7, 1932

Date

1932-01-07

Description

Black and white image of children standing outside of a cottage (similar to 450 others in the area) built by Six Companies, Inc. for their married employees in Boulder City. Many residents planted cactus and other shrubs indigenous to the area in their lawns.

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Photograph of spectators near the edge of a cliff, Hoover Dam, approximately 1931-1936

Date

1931 to 1936

Description

Men, women, and children are standing near the cliff's edge, looking down at the Hoover Dam construction.

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Photographs of swimmers at Lake Mead, 1940s-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

A group of several unidentified individuals swimming on Lake Mead. There are mostly children and a few adults. Discarded clothes and towels can be seen on the beach.

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Biographical essay by Shirley Weiss, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Shirley Weiss describes her childhood housed in army barracks in the ghetto in Beregszasz (Berehove), Hungary. She was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and several other camps, and eventually liberated from Terez?n in 1945. She came to the United States via Sweden.

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Biographical essay by Jacques Ribons, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Jacques Ribons describes his life during the Nazi occupation of Poland. During the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto, his family decided to turn themselves in to the Germans. They were sent to a prison and separated. He and his brother survived and went to France with the OSE, and came to the United States in 1947.

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