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Newspaper, Las Vegas Age, August 8, 1908

Date

1908-08-08

Description

Newspaper, Las Vegas Age, August 8, 1908

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Newspaper, The Goldfield News, December 23, 1904

Date

1904-12-23

Description

Article about camels used in Goldfield on page 2;

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Unidentified man standing on railroad tracks: photographic print

Date

1880 to 1979

Description

Bell Family Scrapbook scanning, Set 4, proofed 11.04.2010 Unidentified man standing on railroad tracks in the Mojave Desert. Several unidentified buildings are in the distance

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Telegram from Leo A. McNamee to A .S. Halsted, July 6, 1922

Date

1922-07-06

Archival Collection

Description

Message concerns keeping strikers off railroad property.

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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles), June 3, 1931

Date

1931-06-03

Archival Collection

Description

Bracken informing Knickerbocker that it is not legally possible for the water company to install water meters on the lines going to Industrial Unit No. 1.

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Aerial photograph of Las Vegas, full view of high school, southwest direction, 1930

Date

1930

Description

Aerial view of Las Vegas in 1930

Transcribed Notes: Notes on back of duplicate photo: Aerial view of Las Vegas w/ new high school on bottom left, c. 1933; Notes on photo sleeve: Aerial view of Las Vegas taken in the winter of 1930 (same day as #0123 002) in clip wing Jenny. Shows railroad and main street - essentially shows the whole city. (Credit: W.A. Davis)

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Letter from Perry J. Lynch (Omaha) to A. E. Stoddard, August 6, 1952

Date

1952-08-06

Archival Collection

Description

Discussion of the issues surrounding Union Pacific Railroad Company selling water to the Pacific Fruit Company

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Henry Schutte oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01648

Abstract

Oral history interview with Henry Schutte conducted by an unknown collector on an unknown date in approximately the 1980s for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Schutte discusses working on trains since childhood and explains the type of maintenance he performed. Schutte then describes his career at the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO).

Archival Collection

Photograph of railroad, Hoover Dam, circa 1932

Date

1931 to 1933

Description

Portion of railroad leading to Hoover [Boulder] Dam. Workers can be seen in the background, with wheelbarrows and various materials in the foreground.

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Photograph of a boxcar in Baker, California, 1940

Date

1940

Archival Collection

Description

A picture of an abandoned boxcar at Tonopah and Tidewater.

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