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Postcard showing a street scene in Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1933-1955

Date

1933 to 1955

Archival Collection

Description

A postcard showing the black and white view of a street scene in Boulder City, Nevada. Specifically, this image is taken from an intersection near Arizona Street and the Nevada Highway. The Boulder Theater building and the Boulder Dam Hotel can be seen on the right side of the street, off in the distance. Transcribed onto the bottom border of the image: "Street Scene - Boulder City, Nevada." Frashers Foto logo is printed onto the bottom right corner of the postcard.

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Photograph showing an aerial view of the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, Nevada-Arizona border, April 10, 2012

Date

2012-04-10

Description

Photographer's notes: "Aerial view, April 10, 2012. Note: I was commissioned to photograph over the bridge and dam in April 2012, more than a year after my project was complete." Site Name: Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge

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Photograph showing an aerial view of the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, Nevada-Arizona border, April 10, 2012

Date

2012-04-10

Description

Photographer's notes: "Aerial view, April 10, 2012. Note: I was commissioned to photograph over the bridge and dam in April 2012, more than a year after my project was complete." Site Name: Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge

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Electrians that it took to work on the Hoover Powerplant: photographic print

Date

1940 (year approximate) to 1960 (year approximate)

Description

From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Written on the back it says, "It required this number of electricians and more (those on shift were not able to appear in the picture), to complete the electrical work on Hoover Powerplant. Ralph Lowry, fourth form the left in the front row, was in charge of all the work in the powerplant, and on his left his Wilbur (Slim) Handley, chief electrician, and next to last in the back row on the right is Morgan J. Sweeney, who provide this picture."

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Photograph of Alta Ham, Art Ham, and others, Boulder Dam, Nevada, September 13, 1931

Date

1931-09-13

Description

Description provided with image: "Ma Kennedy, G. E. Hudson and Las Vegas people (OVERSIZE)." Handwritten inscription on front of image: "Alta & Art Ham helping "Ma" & "Pa" start life "all over again at Boulder Dam" Nevada. Sept 19-1931. {Ma Kennedy, G. E. Hudson}."

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Mary Carol Melton interview, March 5, 1981: transcript

Date

1981-03-05

Description

On March 5, 1981, collector Kathy Ricks interviewed Mary Carol Melton (b. April 4th, 1900 in Rockville, Missouri) about her life in Nevada and the development of the United Methodist Church in Las Vegas. Melton speaks about moving to Las Vegas, Nevada because of her husband’s health, her time working with attorney offices and in the Las Vegas Courthouse, and the different homes in which her family lived. Moreover, Melton talks extensively about starting the first Sunday school in North Las Vegas in a garage as well as the church she and her husband built. Melton discusses the programs and minstrels performed in the church, the crafts sold to make money for the church and the organ they purchased. Lastly, Melton talks about going to the Hoover Dam nearly every week to see new developments, her participation in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and watching the above ground atomic tests.

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Transcript of interview with Dan Hill by John Bennett, March 1, 1979

Date

1979-03-01

Archival Collection

Description

On March 1, 1979, John L. Bennett interviewed Dan Hill (born May 20, 1914 in Illinois) in his home at 2130 Walnut Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, about his memory of Southern Nevada. In addition to the collector and informant, there is an unidentified woman present during the interview. Hill explains that he originally came to Nevada in search of work. He briefly moved to Europe during the First World War where he served in the Army; at the end of the war, Hill returns to Las Vegas to work at the Nevada Test Site. Hill then goes in-depth about his experience as a worker at the Nevada Test Site and different mining sites that he had also worked at. The two briefly discuss the different sheriffs that had been in charge of Las Vegas, and how many people came to Las Vegas to work at the Henderson Magnesium Plant and Hoover Dam in addition to the Nevada Test Site.

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Transcript of a narrative by Lucile Bunker, March 10, 1977

Date

1977-03-10

Description

An oral history statement conducted by herself. Lucile Whitehead Bunker (b. 1907 in Overton, Nevada), at the request of Doreen Day, provides an oral history statement about her experiences growing up and living in Southern Nevada. Bunker recalls her first experiences in Las Vegas and Overton and talks about her family, specifically about her mother, an ice cream maker, and father, the first assessor of Clark County. She then speaks about her various positions, including being a secretary at a school and law firm, a schoolteacher, and a deputy county clerk. She also describes her experiences as the wife of former Senator Berkeley Bunker, particularly living in Washington, D.C. where she met several presidents and attended several events with other lawmakers’ wives. Bunker additionally talks about her missionary work in her church and the various locations to which she travelled. She concludes the statement by talking about her interests in china painting, the early above-ground atomic testing, and the building of Hoover Dam.

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