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LVLWC 770 - Las Vegas, Nevada - constructing 520 feet of 6-inch cast iron water mains

Date

1953 to 1956

Archival Collection

Description

Series 2. Las Vegas Land and Water Company -- General Manager, Manager of Properties, and Manager of Industrial Development in Los Angeles, California -- Right-of-way and Property Documents

Mixed Content

LVLWC 787 - Las Vegas, Nevada - constructing 780 feet of 6-inch cast iron water main

Date

1954

Archival Collection

Description

Series 2. Las Vegas Land and Water Company -- General Manager, Manager of Properties, and Manager of Industrial Development in Los Angeles, California -- Right-of-way and Property Documents

Mixed Content

Water (Southern Nevada Water Project). Contains correspondence, press releases, booklets, news clippings, reports and memos, 1967 November to 1969 October

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Cannon Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00002
Collection Name: Howard Cannon Papers
Box/Folder: Box 69 (91st Session)

Archival Component

Photograph of Las Vegas Water Board, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1940s

Date

1940 to 1949

Description

The Las Vegas Water Board, L-R: Miller, Chief of Police, Tom Campbell (Campbell Realty), Otto Underhill (Coca Cola), Jim Cashman, Sr., Victor Shurtliff, ?, Helen Scott Reed-County Clerk

Image

Photograph of water flowing from a pump, Hank Record Ranch, Nevada, 1979

Date

1979

Description

Water flowing from a pump in the Amargosa Valley.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Water flowing from a pump located on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1979. the view is toward the west."

Image

Photograph of artesian well throwing 60 inches of water, after 1950

Date

1950 to 1960

Description

Man opening a valve to let an artesian well run

Transcribed Notes: Stamped on back: Vegas Studio, Las Vegas, Nevada; Handwritten inscription on back: Artesian well throwing 60 inches of water. Artesian wells average 400 ft. deep.

Image

Photograph of men water skiing on Lake Mead, circa late 1930s-1950s

Date

1937 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

A shot of two men water skiing from the same boat on Lake Mead.

Image

Photograph of water diversion, Hoover Dam construction site, April 20, 1933

Date

1933-04-20

Archival Collection

Description

An image of trucks loading dirt for water diversion for Hoover (Boulder) Dam construction.

Image

Memo from Oscar W. Bryan to E. E. Bennett about the water appropriation ruling, December 5, 1949

Date

1949-12-05

Archival Collection

Description

Attorney Oscar W. Bryan referring to the state engineer's denial of Jack Wollenzein's application to drill a well. The official ruling is referenced below.

Text

Photograph of Water Treatment Facility, Las Vegas, circa late 1960s-1971

Date

1965 to 1971

Description

An artist's rendering of the Alfred Merritt Smith Water Treatment Facility in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Image