An exterior view of a Consolidated Virginia mine in Virginia City, Nevada. Description provided with image: "Con. Virginia Mine (Old Shaft), one of the so-called Bonanza Mines controlled by Mackey & Fair, Situate on Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada. Production 150,000,000. Paid dividends amounting to $78,000,000. Photo 1891."

Hoover Dam's canyon wall outlet works in operation during the 1950s.

Cypress Mesa Drive meanders towards its end in the canyon in the Sun City MacDonald Ranch neighborhood of Henderson, Nevada.

Black and white image of three children involved in the Vacation Reading Club at the Boulder City Library. At the time of this photograph, the library was housed in the basement of the city's municipal building.

The black and white view of men assembling a truck loaded with old telephone booths for Howard Hughes arrival in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Telephone company "goes to town" for Hughes' arrival, New York City -- Something had to be done to take care of the thousands of potential telephone users who crowded Floyd Bennett Field, July 14th, for the arrival of Howard Hughes and his daring crew on their dash Around the World, so the New York Telephone Company, well aware of the fact that the few phones at the field couldn't possibly accommodate, the officials, police, and spectators, "went to town" with a truck loaded with old telephone booths. A line was quickly strung and the phones in the booths on the truck were plugged in. The business was rushing and the phone company was well rewarded for its enterprise. Credit Line (ACME) 7/14/38."

Black and white image showing a view north of Birch Street, as seen from the Nevada Highway in Boulder City. The Six Companies, Inc. clubhouse, commissary and executives lodge are visible.