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Boulder City, Nevada organizational posters

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Archival Collection

UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
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Collection Number: MS-00955
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
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Boulder City, Nevada regional maps

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00955
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
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Photograph of children standing in front of a tent in Williamsville, Nevada, circa 1931

Date

1929 to 1933

Description

A black and white image of children standing in front a tent house in Williamsville (known to the residents as Ragtown), a makeshift community created near Black Canyon as construction began on the Hoover Dam.

Image

Slide of a family in Boulder City, Nevada, circa early 1930s

Date

1931

Description

A black and white image of women and children posing in front of a makeshift home in in Ragtown, an area near the Hoover Dam construction site at Black Canyon, not far from Boulder City.

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Slide of two men in front of a tent home in Boulder City, Nevada, August 13, 1931

Date

1931-08-13

Description

A black and white image of J.H. DeLeach (left) and R.R. Heusel in an area known as Ragtown near the Hoover Dam construction site at Black Canyon, not far from Boulder City.

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Photograph showing an aerial view of the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge under construction, Nevada-Arizona border, May 22, 2009

Date

2009-05-22

Description

Photographer's notes: "Aerial view of bridge construction and Hoover Dam, May 22, 2009." Site Name: Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge

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Boulder City, Nevada subdivision drawings and maps

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00955
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Panoramic photograph of Fortification Hill across the Colorado River, circa 1924

Date

1924 (year approximate)

Description

Fortification Hill near the Colorado River

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "About 1924. The Colorado River before the Dam, above where Hoover Dam is now (1963)"

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Photograph of Lake Mead and Boulder Canyon, Boulder City (Nev.), 1940s

Date

1940 to 1949

Description

Near Fortification Hill, four miles upstream from the Hoover Dam. Boulder Canyon, originally called Devils Gate Canyon, now flooded by the lake. Photograph by Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada.

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Earl, Sam S.

Sam Earl was born in 1912 in Virgin, Utah. Discusses First Helldorado Days, Las Vegas history, work on Boulder (Hoover) Dam, Gambling and Casinos, Crime, Telephone company, "The Strip", Airport, Fire Department, Railroad and Streets, Truck driving and weather conditions, living conditions

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