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Audio clip from interview with Robert D. "Bob" Fisher by Barbara Tabach, January 8, 2015
Date
2015-01-08
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Robert D. "Bob" Fisher on January 08, 2015. In this clip, Fisher discusses his time in Las Vegas and his involvement with Temple Beth Sholom.
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Blank contract between the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad and industrial users, June 1922
Date
1922-06
Archival Collection
Description
Blank contract between the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad and industrial users
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Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, United States Secretary of the Interior: photographic print
Date
1910 (year approximate) to 1945 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscription with image reads: "Driving the silver spike. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, drives the last spike into tracks of railroads spur to the damsite. To the right of Dr. Wilbur is Senator Key Pittman. Nest to Pittman is Nevada Governor Fred Balzar. Second back from Senator Pittman is Las Vegas Mayor Fred Hesse. To the left of Dr. Wilbur is Carl R. Coray, Union Pacific Railroad president." - E(lizabeth) Harrington.
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Photograph of six men at the signing of the Boulder Dam Bill, December 21, 1928
Date
1928-12-21
Archival Collection
Description
Left to right shown are: Elwood Mead, Comm. Of Reclamation; Phil Swing, author of the bill, a member of House of Representatives from California; President Coolidge; U.S. senator Hiram Johnson, another author of the boulder Dam bill; Addison T. Smith, Chairman, Committee on Reclamation, House of Representatives; W.B. Matthews, General Counsel, Boulder Dam Association, Los Angeles, California. The occasion is the signing of the Boulder Dam bill, Dec. 21, 1928.
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