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Film transparency of railroad depot, Las Vegas, circa 1930-1940s

Date

1930 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

A view of a Union Pacific Railroad Depot.

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Film transparency showing a railroad depot in Las Vegas, circa 1930s-1940s

Date

1930 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

A daytime view of a train and parked cars at the Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Las Vegas.

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Last Frontier Village at the Last Frontier Hotel: postcards

Date

1940 (year approximate) to 1949 (year approximate)

Description

Postcards of the Last Frontier Village at the Last Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. (c. 1940s)

Image

Aerial photograph of Las Vegas looking northwest, late 1950s

Date

unspecified year in 195X (year approximate)

Archival Collection

Description

Aerial view of Las Vegas looking northwest. Fremont Street in center, running west.

Transcribed Notes: Notes on photo sleeve: Aerial view of Las Vegas looking west. Fremont Street in center, running west.

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Aerial photograph of Union Pacific Railroad yards, Las Vegas, late 1920s

Date

1925 (year approximate)

Description

Aerial view of Las Vegas and Union Pacific Railroad yards.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "[Identified by Dave Coons as LV Valley w/UPRR yards in Foreground. Late 1920s?] [Kim Geary - Roberts IDs ca 1931. EP 6-21-84]."

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D. C. Frazer Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00391

Abstract

The D. C. Frazer Photograph Collection (approximately 1970-1979) consists of six black-and-white photographs of various Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad workers, engine cars, and the repair shop located in Ludlow, California from approximately the 1910s through the 1930s. All photographs are reproductions.

Archival Collection

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

Text

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.

Text

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