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Photograph of Clarence Cleveland and others, 1940s

Date

Unknown year in the decade of the 1940s

Archival Collection

Description

Black and white photograph of Anthony Mitchell, Clarence Cleveland, Jerry Smith, Conrad Boyd, and Stanley Mitchell.

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Photograph of Elwood Mead and others at the Hoover Dam, (Nev.), circa 1936

Date

1936 (year approximate)

Description

Elwood Mead, head of the Bureau of Reclamation, stands with two other men at the Hoover Dam.

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Photograph of a group of men, Belmont (Nev.), circa 1887

Date

1887 (year approximate)

Description

Photo of a group of men at Belmont, Nev. Ca.1887.

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Photograph of Don Yaeger, circa 1992

Date

1992 (year approximate)

Description

Description provided with image: "Don Yaeger, author of 'Shark Attack: Jerry Tarkanian and His Battle with the NCAA and UNLV.'"

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Photograph of flooding at the Clark Avenue Railroad Underpass in Las Vegas, circa 1950

Date

1950 (year approximate)

Description

Flooding at the Clark Avenue Railroad Underpass in Las Vegas.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "Clark Underpass, Built 1924"

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Photograph of Elbert Edwards at Fort Callville, Nevada, circa 1938

Date

1938 (year approximate)

Description

Elbert Edwards standing on one of the walls of Fort Callville nearly surrounded by the rising waters of Lake Mead.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Elbert Edwards at the ruins of Fort Callville as the waters of Lake Mead rise to cover them. (ca. 1938-39)"

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Photograph of a Union Pacific Railroad crew dismantling the St. Thomas rail spur, Nevada, circa 1938

Date

1938 (year approximate)

Description

The Union Pacific Railroad sends a wrecking crew into the St. Thomas area to reclaim several miles of branch line.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Even the Union Pacific Railway hurriedly sends a wrecking crew into the area to reclaim several miles of branch line that would otherwise wind up along the lake bottom."

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Photograph of remains of early canals of the 1860s built by members of the Muddy-Cotton Mission, circa 1948

Date

1948 (year approximate)

Description

Elbert Edwards and another man standing in a dry irrigation canal in the Moapa Valley.

Transcribed Notes: Handwritten inscription on back

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Photograph of irrigated farmland on the T & T Ranch, Nevada, circa 1953

Date

1953 (year approximate)

Description

Irrigating new alfalfa on the T & T Ranch in the Amargosa Valley.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Irrigated land newly planted in alfalfa. T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, Ca. 1954."

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Photograph of Hoover Dam worker beside the Colorado River, circa 1931

Date

1931 (year approximate)

Description

Hoover Dam worker and an Ingersoll Rand electric generator beside the Colorado River looking Northwest towards the Hemenway Wash.

Transcribed Notes: Written on back: 4-18-31

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