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Rooming house

Date

1905 to 1907

Archival Collection

Description

Series 1. San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad -- J. Ross Clark/Los Angeles Office Files

Mixed Content

Fruit packing house in Riverside, California

Date

1916 to 1920

Archival Collection

Description

Series 1. San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad -- J. Ross Clark/Los Angeles Office Files

Mixed Content

Ullom-Brockman Family Papers

Identifier

MS-00211

Abstract

Ullom-Brockman Family Papers (1889-1943) contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, cards, announcements, invitations, and a photographic copy of a family album documenting the family's life in Southern Nevada. There are also employment records for George Brockman from the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad Company and a copy of "The Desert Breeze" newspaper.

Archival Collection

Photograph of two women near the front entrance of the Thunderbird Hotel (Las Vegas), circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Entrance of the Thunderbird Hotel showing the porte-cochère and the marquee. Stamped on original: "Please credit Union Pacific Railroad Photo."
Site Name: Thunderbird Hotel
Address: 2755 Las Vegas Boulevard South

Image

Postcard of Union Pacific Station, Las Vegas, circa 1940

Date

1940

Description

Text on front of post card: "New Union Pacific Station, Las Vegas, Nevada; Gateway to Boulder Dam; Copyright Boulder Dam Service Bureau." Text on back of postcard: "The new passenger depot of the Union Pacific in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the world's first streamlined, completely air-conditioned railroad passenger station. Typically modernistic western in motif, the structure has been described by architects as one of the most beautiful in design and superlatively complete in appointments, in the United States. Desert Souvenir Supply, Boulder City, Nevada."

Image

Letter, handwritten notes, and sketches from Division Engineer C. Miller (Los Angeles) to Chief Engineer (Los Angeles), April 25, 1917

Date

1917-04-25

Archival Collection

Description

Details of pipeline maintenance including sketches of the work to be done in Las Vegas

Text

Photograph album 2, Ferron-Bracken Collection, circa 1905-1935, page 42

Date

1905 to 1935

Description

Photograph in center of bottom row shows people standing outside of a railroad caboose and is inscribed "Springville [Utah] 1892."

Image

Photograph of Word War I draftees leaving Las Vegas, Nevada Depot, 1918

Date

1918

Description

People in front of railroad station. Handwritten description by Dave Coons given with photograph: "SP,LA & SL station, [street side] with draftees WWI Las Vegas. Sequence of farewell scenes with views of cars. At least one car still lettered 'Salt Lake.'" Another description given with photograph: "First contingent of draftees leaving Las Vegas Depot, 1918."

Image

Draft of Agreement regarding the sale of Las Vegas water facilities and lands to the Las Vegas Valley Water District, March 16, 1953

Date

1953-03-16

Archival Collection

Description

Describes the sale of water facilities and lands by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company and Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company to the Las Vegas Valley Water District

Transcribed Notes: Handwritten notes on page 2

Text

Fruit packing houses in Riverside and Ontario, California

Date

1911 to 1918

Archival Collection

Description

Series 1. San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad -- J. Ross Clark/Los Angeles Office Files

Mixed Content