Photograph of Walter Bracken reading inside a tent. Walter R. Bracken served as the vice president of the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, a corporation formed to oversee the Las Vegas business dealings for the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. Date estimated between 1905-1910.
A black and white image of children standing in front a tent house in Williamsville (known to the residents as Ragtown), a makeshift community created near Black Canyon as construction began on the Hoover Dam.