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Photograph of tunnels, Hoover Dam, circa 1930-1936
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of farmland on the T & T Ranch, Nevada, circa 1953
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Archival Collection
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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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County agent project, 1940 additions, Erosion - flood control, 1937-1940
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Archival Collection
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Revised summary of situation, goals, duties of cooperating agencies, and procedures regarding the effort to prevent flooding and erosion threatening properties and silting Lake Mead. Report originally signed in May 1937. Handwritten notes throughout document. Cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics-University of Nevada Agricultural Extension Division and United States Department of Agricultural Project Number: State Office #172, Clark Co. #12
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Photograph of a water wheel in the Muddy River, Nevada, since 1936
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Archival Collection
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Water wheel in the Muddy River near Logandale, Nevada
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Raymond A. ''Pete'' West built this water wheel in 1936 in the Muddy River near Logandale, Nevada."
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Robert "Bob" Agonia oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Robert “Bob” Agonia conducted by Marcela Rodriguez-Campo on September 6, 2018 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Agonia recalls his community being very diverse, with families sharing Filipino and Mexican American heritage and his neighbors being Japanese Americans. Agonia also discusses the role he played in starting the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) engineering school, and helping start a Minority Engineering Program at UNLV. He then speaks about Latino community involvement in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Archival Collection
Photograph of a truck for Hoover Dam construction, Nevada, circa 1930s
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Hoover Dam site, circa 1932
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Archival Collection
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