Search Results
Photograph of Mr. & Mrs. Chris Brown and Walter Bracken, Las Vegas, circa 1905
Date
1905
Archival Collection
Description
Mr. & Mrs. Chris Brown and Walter Bracken posing in front of a small tent near the Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Image
Audio recording clip of interview with Viola Johnson by Claytee D. White, March 12, 1996
Date
1996-03-12
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Viola Johnson conducted by Claytee D. White on March 12, 1996. Johnson describes Las Vegas living conditions in 1942.
Sound
Photograph of Sam Jones in Williamsville, Nevada, May 13, 1931
Date
1931-05-13
Archival Collection
Description
A black and white image of 75-year-old Sam Jones by a tent in Williamsville (known to the residents as Ragtown), a makeshift community created near Black Canyon as construction began on the Hoover Dam.
Image
Photograph of Mrs. Edith Powell, Boulder City, Nevada, March 13, 1931
Date
1931-03-13
Archival Collection
Description
Mrs. Edith Powell, the first woman resident of Boulder City, in Boulder City, Nevada. Mrs. Edith Powell is wearing a white dress and holding a small dog while standing in front of her wrinkled tent house.
Image
Photograph of Mrs. Edith Powell, Boulder City, Nevada, March 13, 1931
Date
1931-03-13
Archival Collection
Description
Mrs. Edith Powell, the first woman resident of Boulder City, in Boulder City, Nevada. Mrs. Edith Powell is wearing a white dress and holding a small dog while standing in front of her wrinkled tent house.
Image
Photograph of dam workers and miners, Tonopah (Nev.), circa 1933
Date
1932 to 1934
Archival Collection
Description
Conflicting descriptions of this image. One reads: "Men outside tents they lived in while waiting for jobs on the Dam." Another by W. A. Davis reads "Three miners out near Tonopah on road to Pioche... Man on the left named 'Jim'."
Image
Slide of protesters at a demonstration held on Mother's Day near the Nevada Test Site, May 10, 1987
Date
1987-05-10
Archival Collection
Description
Color image of a crowd of protesters near a tent at a demonstration held by American Peace Test, a group opposed to nuclear testing.
Image