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Photograph of Mr. & Mrs. Chris Brown and Walter Bracken, Las Vegas, circa 1905

Date

1905

Description

Mr. & Mrs. Chris Brown and Walter Bracken posing in front of a small tent near the Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Audio recording clip of interview with Viola Johnson by Claytee D. White, March 12, 1996

Date

1996-03-12

Description

Part of an interview with Viola Johnson conducted by Claytee D. White on March 12, 1996. Johnson describes Las Vegas living conditions in 1942.

Sound

Photograph of Sam Jones in Williamsville, Nevada, May 13, 1931

Date

1931-05-13

Description

A black and white image of 75-year-old Sam Jones by a 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 Mrs. Edith Powell, Boulder City, Nevada, March 13, 1931

Date

1931-03-13

Description

Mrs. Edith Powell, the first woman resident of Boulder City, in Boulder City, Nevada. Mrs. Edith Powell is wearing a white dress and holding a small dog while standing in front of her wrinkled tent house.

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Photograph of Mrs. Edith Powell, Boulder City, Nevada, March 13, 1931

Date

1931-03-13

Description

Mrs. Edith Powell, the first woman resident of Boulder City, in Boulder City, Nevada. Mrs. Edith Powell is wearing a white dress and holding a small dog while standing in front of her wrinkled tent house.

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Photograph of dam workers and miners, Tonopah (Nev.), circa 1933

Date

1932 to 1934

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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Slide of protesters at a demonstration held on Mother's Day near the Nevada Test Site, May 10, 1987

Date

1987-05-10

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.

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