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Aerial photograph of Las Vegas looking northeast, circa 1931
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial view of Las Vegas looking northeast
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Aerial view of Las Vegas, 1931. Center foreground are the Union Pacific R.R. Co. shops with two tall standpipes. Las Vegas High School, gym, and adjoining Butcher Memorial Football Field are at the right of center."
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Photograph of Elbert Edwards at Fort Callville, Nevada, circa 1938
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Elbert Edwards standing on one of the walls of Fort Callville nearly surrounded by the rising waters of Lake Mead.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Elbert Edwards at the ruins of Fort Callville as the waters of Lake Mead rise to cover them. (ca. 1938-39)"
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Photograph of the top of the St. Thomas, Nevada school, Lake Mead, circa June, 1938
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The remains of the St. Thomas school building about to disappear under the waters of Lake Mead.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "The last of a once modern high school building (St. Thomas) about to disappear forever."
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Photograph of a Union Pacific Railroad crew dismantling the St. Thomas rail spur, Nevada, circa 1938
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The Union Pacific Railroad sends a wrecking crew into the St. Thomas area to reclaim several miles of branch line.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Even the Union Pacific Railway hurriedly sends a wrecking crew into the area to reclaim several miles of branch line that would otherwise wind up along the lake bottom."
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Photograph of St. Thomas, Nevada ruins and Lake Mead, circa July, 1938
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The remains of a house in St. Thomas being covered by water.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Ruins of the town of St. Thomas as waters of Lake Mead rise."
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Photograph of remains of early canals of the 1860s built by members of the Muddy-Cotton Mission, circa 1948
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Elbert Edwards and another man standing in a dry irrigation canal in the Moapa Valley.
Transcribed Notes: Handwritten inscription on back
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Photograph of farmland on the T & T Ranch, Nevada, circa 1953
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Men irrigating new alfalfa on the T & T Ranch in the Amargosa Valley.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Irrigating land newly planted in alfalfa, T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, about 1952 or 1954. Gordon Bettles is pictured with the shovel. The child pictured in the foreground is a niece of Bob Fishel and Betty Lou Kemp, daughter of M.P. Gless' Glessner. Note the profile of the sleeping old man silhouetted along the crest of the Funeral Mountains."
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Photograph of irrigated farmland on the T & T Ranch, Nevada, circa 1953
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Irrigating new alfalfa on the T & T Ranch in the Amargosa Valley.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Irrigated land newly planted in alfalfa. T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, Ca. 1954."
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Postcard of Lorenzi Park, Las Vegas, circa 1930
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The ponds at Lorenzi Park, Las Vegas
Transcribed Notes: Printed on front of postcard: Lorenzi Park at Las Vegas, Nevada; Oakes Photo; Printed on back of postcard: Lorenzi Park at Las Vegas comprises eleven acres of water from artesian wells, furnishing boating, swimming and irrigation.; Also space for one-cent stamp; Printed by Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Chicago, U.S.A.
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Photograph of Hoover Dam worker beside the Colorado River, circa 1931
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Hoover Dam worker and an Ingersoll Rand electric generator beside the Colorado River looking Northwest towards the Hemenway Wash.
Transcribed Notes: Written on back: 4-18-31
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