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Howard Booth Papers

Identifier

MS-00868

Abstract

The Howard Booth Papers are comprised of the personal papers of environmental activist Howard Booth from 1964 to 2017. The collection includes information about Booth's efforts to help turn Red Rock Canyon into a National Conservation Area. Booth was a member of multiple conservation organizations and the collection includes meeting minutes and newsletters from the Toiyabe chapter of the Sierra Club. The collection also contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, official reports, newsletters, and meeting minutes collected by Booth from various environmental organizations. The papers also include numerous photographic slides with handwritten captions Booth took of Red Rock and the surrounding area from the early 1980s to 2000s.

Archival Collection

Solar on a single family home in Sun City MacDonald Ranch, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2016-10-12

Description

An early solar panel adopter's residence sits in a sea of homes in the Sun City MacDonald Ranch as seen from the City View Trail in Henderson.

Image

Film transparency of transmission lines in Boulder City, Nevada, January 1949

Date

1949-01

Description

Black and white image of transmission lines crossing a snow-covered Eldorado Canyon in Boulder City.

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A Sun City Anthem sign on Eastern Avenue north of Sun City Anthem Drive, looking south-southwest in Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2019-04-03

Description

From the UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (PH-00394). Part of the collection documents the entire 19 mile length of the north/south Eastern Avenue / Civic Center Drive alignment. This photograph was captured in the section of Eastern Avenue between Grand Hills and Sun City Anthem Drives.

Image

View of Ft. Yuma from Yuma City, Arizona: photographic print

Date

1870 (year approximate) to 1979 (year approximate)

Description

From the KLVX Steamboats on the Colorado Photograph Collection (PH-00156). "COPY 14863 Reproduction from the Original in the Arizona Historical Society" stamp on verso.

Image

Photograph of Robert N. Broadbent, Boulder City, Nevada, September 11, 1980

Date

1980-09-11

Description

Former Boulder City Mayor and Clark County Commissioner Robert N. Broadbent.

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Slide of Lake Mead, outside of Boulder City, circa late 1930s

Date

1936 to 1940

Archival Collection

Description

A color slide of Lake Mead outside of Boulder City, Nevada.

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Slide of Lake Mead, outside of Boulder City, circa late 1930s

Date

1936 to 1940

Archival Collection

Description

A color slide of Lake Mead outside of Boulder City, Nevada.

Image

Photograph of high school construction, Boulder City, Nevada, 1949-1950

Date

1949 to 1950

Description

Boulder City High School administrative offices under construction.

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Photograph of a small structure in Lost City, Nevada, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1930

Description

Description given with photograph: "Rooms (house 47) Lost City"

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