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Vivian "Viv" Frehner oral history interview
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OH-00626
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Oral history interview with Vivian "Viv" Frehner conducted by Gregg Carter on July 20, 1974 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Frehner talks about his upbringing in St. Thomas, Nevada, his marriage, his early work as a sheriff's deputy, a rancher, farmer, and road maintenance worker. He recalls going to the movies for twenty cents as a child, catching wild horses to ride in rodeos as a teenager, and the heat of Las Vegas, Nevada summers after he moved there for work as a young man for work. He remembers seeing dozens of artisan wells in Las Vegas well into the 1940s, the opening of Flamingo Hotel and Casino, the death of actress Carole Lombard in a 1941 plane crash outside Las Vegas, and the 1950s above-ground nuclear testing by the U. S. government.
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H. O. Watts and others viewing human skeletal remains during an archaeological excavation at Willow Beach near Lake Mohave, 1950
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Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00071
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box SH-046 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box SH-046 (Restrictions apply)
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Tyrone Power and Annabella Power visit Boulder Dam, with them are Mr. Marion McKeen (Thompson Trophy Pilot) who flew the Powers to Boulder City, and R. B. Spearman who conducted the party through the powerhouse, 1939 May 26
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File
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Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00071
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 04 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 04 (Restrictions apply)
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Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of Interior, naming the Boulder Dam at a ceremony celebrating the beginning of work on the Boulder Canyon Project and the beginning of the construction of Union Pacific Railroad from Boulder Junction (Bracken Junction) to the dam site, 1930 September 17
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File
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Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00071
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 08 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 08 (Restrictions apply)
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Tyrone Power and Annabella Power visit Boulder Dam, with them are Mr. Marion McKeen (Thompson Trophy Pilot) who flew the Powers to Boulder City, and R. B. Spearman who conducted the party through the powerhouse, 1939 May 26
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File
Archival Collection
Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00071
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 10 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 10 (Restrictions apply)
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"Bechtel, What a Party!" Bechtel News newsletter for Steve Bechtel Jr.'s celebration of the Bechtel Corporation 90th anniversary, 1988 October
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File
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UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
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Collection Number: MS-00955
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
Box/Folder: Flat File 03 (MISSING) (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
Box/Folder: Flat File 03 (MISSING) (Restrictions apply)
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As protection against high water, a "bridle" has been attached to upstream face of gravel pit bridge. A 3-inch cable is anchored to concrete dead-men and horizontal stays are attached to bents on bridge: photographic print, 1932 May 15
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Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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Detail image of side-wall "jumbo" used in placing 3-foot thick lining in diversion tunnels. Side wings are jacked into place, and concrete is poured through ports by a traveling crane and 2 yard buckets: photographic print, 1932 April 18
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Archival Collection
Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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Three hundred boxes of dynamite were used in spectacular blast which demolished the old Lookout Point. Photograph taken from the new Lookout Point, on Black Canyon Highway: photographic print, 1932 August 16
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Archival Collection
Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
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Looking up from a point below the lower portals, showing the government pumping plant (lower left), the Six Companies' compressor plant (middle left), the location of the lower portals, and the highway loop above the canyon wall (upper center): photographic print, 1931 July 30
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Item
Archival Collection
Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00267
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Collection Name: Six Companies, Inc. Hoover Dam Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
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