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35 Years of Rotary in Las Vegas, 1923-1958
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Archival Collection
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Report on the water supply in Las Vegas, March 25, 1942
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Archival Collection
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Brief history of water in Las Vegas and overview of the water situation
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Semiannual report of the Moapa Soil Conservation District, from June 30, 1940 - January 1, 1941
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Archival Collection
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Summary of the work of the Moapa Soil Conservation Service for the last half of 1940.
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Ryan, Ora Prichard Smith, 1904-1992
Ora Belva Palmer was born on September 4, 1904 in Aurora, Missouri to Amanda Belle Vaughn and James Henry Palmer. She married Everett John Phelps on December 25, 1921. The couple had one daughter, Rosetta Belle Phelps. She later left Phelps and moved west to pursue a divorce. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1931. She worked as a waitress and married Louis A. Prichard on February 8, 1935 in St. George, Utah. In 1938, she began to work at the Shady Moor Lodge, a boarding house located at 325 South Second Street.
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Hirsch, Charles J., 1912-2002
Accountant Charles J. Hirsch was born in New York City, New York on November 8, 1912. After graduating from New York's Pace University in 1938, with a degree in Accounting and Business Administration, he traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was employed by the Apache Hotel on Fremont Street. His stay in Las Vegas was interrupted once by a five-year tour of duty with the Air Force Contract Audit Division, where he attained the rank of captain before his release in 1946.
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Photograph Howard Hughes arrival at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, July 14, 2013
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of the arrival of Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, July 14, 2013
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Dredge in Manhattan, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada). The hopper on the starboard side of the dredge is visible. The dredge processed the gravel through jigs as opposed to sluices. With the volume of material the dredge handled, a sluice would have been impractical. A jig has a diaphragm driven by an electric motor which pulsates. The Yuba jigs were about 42 inches long by 42 inches across. A bed in the jig was filled with steel shot. As the gravel material floated across the steel shot, the jig's pulsating diaphragm raised the steel shot-bed up and gold, being so much heavier than the gravel and the steel shot, would work its way down through the shot-bed. The jig bed usually has a 1/8-inch mesh stainless steel screen so that any gold finer than 1/8 inch will pass through the screen. The jig pulsated between 60 and 100 times a minute, a "steady throb." Gold coarser than 1/8 inch, being very heavy, would be held on top the screen beneath the bed of steel shot.
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