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Searchlight, Nevada City Council

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Searchlight Mining District

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Subject

Fourth of July Celebration: photographic print

Date

1909

Description

Fourth of July celebration on the main street of Searchlight, Nevada. In the background is the "Brown Club" and "The Gem". Written on the photograph is "Searchlight July 5, '09."

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Searchlight Publishing Company

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Walking Box Ranch Collection

Identifier

MS-00657

Abstract

The Walking Box Ranch Collection (1917-2011) includes material collected by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Public Lands Institute on the Searchlight, Nevada ranch. Materials include a maps related to the construction and operation of the ranch, a pair of chaps owned by Rex Bell, Jr., and color slides of the ranch. Also included are photographic prints of Rex Bell and Rex Bell, Jr., and newsclippings related to the film and political career of Rex Bell. A small number of newsclippings pertain to the career of Rex Bell, Jr.

Archival Collection

Miners: photographic print

Date

1930 (year approximate) to 1980 (year approximate)

Description

Miners working in Searchlight, Nevada.

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Dean Pulsipher oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01518

Abstract

Oral history interview with Dean Pulsipher conducted by Dennis McBride on August 19, 1986 for the Boulder City Library Oral History Project. In this interview, Pulsipher discusses his early life in St. Thomas, Nevada and Bunkerville, Nevada. He remembers traveling to Las Vegas, Nevada as early as 1905, moving to Las Vegas in the early 1920s, and the significance of the railroad at the time. Pulsipher describes living through the prohibition era, paving the road from Las Vegas to Searchlight, Nevada, and the construction of the Hoover Dam.

Archival Collection