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Transcript of interview with Edna Jackson-Ferguson, April 15, 1975
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Archival Collection
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On April 15, 1975, Edna Jackson-Ferguson (born 1897 in Overbrook, Kansas) provided a narrative-style oral history about her and her husband Jack’s experiences during the building of the Hoover Dam. Jackson-Ferguson provides many details about the way of life living in the camp with workers of the dam, the tasks required of those workers in building the dam, and some of the actual processes of pouring the concrete for the structure. She also talks about food, transportation, weather, and entertainment during the time. To conclude the interview, Jackson-Ferguson mentions some of the other job positions her husband held and their pride in being a part of the Hoover Dam’s construction.
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Photograph of people standing at a sign for the Boulder Dam Pier that has rattlesnakes hanging from it, Boulder City, Nevada, April 18, 1931
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Archival Collection
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Slide of people at an American Peace Test protest near the Nevada Test Site, May 10, 1987
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of men with sacks of ore from Round Mountain (Nev.), early 1900s
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Archival Collection
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Transcript of interview with Viola Johnson by Claytee D. White, March 12, 1996
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Archival Collection
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Interview with Viola Johnson conducted by Claytee D. White on March 12, 1996. Johnson lived in a tent when she moved from Fordyce to Las Vegas in 1942. She describes working conditions for maids and the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 strikes between 1969 and 1984.
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