Oral history interview with Earle Frost Eglington conducted by Anna Dean Kepper on October 30, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Frost Eglington discusses life on the Stewart Ranch and Mormon Fort, Nevada, and what made his family move to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1911.
Application for the Las Vegas Land and Water Company to appropriate the water from a new well on the Las Vegas Ranch. Original Collection: Union Pacific Railroad Collection 97-19
Bracken telling Jeffers that the Stewarts were seeking financial gain from the railroad company, yet something needed be done to supply them with water. He gave three possible solutions. A copy of Stewart heirs' letter is referenced below.
Photograph in upper left shows the railyard in downtown Las Vegas, circa 1910s, including the Las Vegas Ice and Manufacturing Company building and other structures. One building says F. I. Kremer, Furniture on its roof. The photograph in the lower left shows Anna Bracken with her dogs on the porch of the Las Vegas Ranch house. The photograph in the lower right shows men with the first artesian well in Las Vegas Valley at the Taylor Ranch.
The Joseph LaMar Foremaster Photograph Collection includes black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of structures at the Old Ranch (Stewart Ranch) in Las Vegas, Nevada from approximately 1920 to 1939 when the Foremaster family lived and worked on the land.
Album contains Wieking family photos, photos of Hoover Dam construction, Black Canyon, ferries on the Colorado River, ruins of Fort Callville, Englers Camp, Las Vegas Ranch, Mt. Charleston, deserts in Nevada and Arizona, Hoover Dam laboratory workers, the first train in Railroad Pass, and snow in Las Vegas. Also included are one color postcard titled "The Grand Canyon Bridge, Arizona," and prints of two poems, "Mornin' On The Desert" and "Nevada" (authors unknown). A paper finding aid is available in the album box.