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Photograph of dam workers and miners, Tonopah (Nev.), circa 1933
Date
1932 to 1934
Archival Collection
Description
Conflicting descriptions of this image. One reads: "Men outside tents they lived in while waiting for jobs on the Dam." Another by W. A. Davis reads "Three miners out near Tonopah on road to Pioche... Man on the left named 'Jim'."
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Inside the Book: Stardust "Basic Sports" feature: video, approximately 1990 to 1999
Level of Description
File
Scope and Contents
Aerial timelapse footage of a temporary tent being constructed in the Stardust parking lot. A crane lifts rooftop pieces in place while workers connect the tent structure from below. During the timelapse it rains, which obscures some of the video as drops apepar on the lens. The roof covering is added to the metal structure the following day. Smaller tents, off the side, are the last thing built. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486.
Archival Collection
Stardust Resort and Casino Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00515
Collection Name: Stardust Resort and Casino Records
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Box 024
Collection Name: Stardust Resort and Casino Records
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Box 024
Archival Component
Slide of protesters at a demonstration held on Mother's Day near the Nevada Test Site, May 10, 1987
Date
1987-05-10
Archival Collection
Description
Color image of a crowd of protesters near a tent at a demonstration held by American Peace Test, a group opposed to nuclear testing.
Image
Photograph of power substation at Hoover Dam, circa 1934
Date
1933 to 1935
Archival Collection
Description
View of completed power substation; Tents are for workers. Note: "Took all day to get from boat launch to power substation. Took your lunch and a canteen."
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Photograph of men and a woman with burros near the Las Vegas Creek, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Date of photograph estimated between 1904-1906. Two men and one woman with two burros near a tent at Las Vegas Creek. A well, wooden table, basin and cooking pot are visible.
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Photograph of Jim and Belle Butler with two unidentified men, Tonopah, Nevada, circa 1900s
Date
1900 to 1909
Archival Collection
Description
Prospector Jim Butler and his wife Belle (on the right) with two unidentified men and a dog sitting outside of a tent with a stovepipe coming through the top, probably in Tonopah, Nevada. Jim Butler struck the first gold and silver ores in Tonopah and Belle Butler struck the Mizpah Mine claim in Tonopah.
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Film transparency of Deputy Marshall H. J. Williamson and W. M. Cook in Williamsville, Nevada, circa early to mid 1930s
Date
1931 to 1936
Archival Collection
Description
A black and white image of Deputy Marshall H. J. Williamson and W.M. Cook standing in front of an information tent in Williamsville (known to the residents as Ragtown), a makeshift community created near Black Canyon as construction began on the Hoover Dam.
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Photograph of Ruth McGonagill with neighbor, Kawich Range, Nevada, circa 1904
Date
1904 to 1905
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of Ruth McGonagill and a neighbor's baby at tent house with pipe from milk-can stove. The family lived here, in the Kawich Range, from about September 1904 through March 1905. (This camp was called Wheaton and was a couple miles up the gully from Silver Bow, Nevada.)
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