Aerial view of the Las Vegas Valley looking northwest towards Mount Charleston.
Transcribed Notes: Handwritten inscription on back: Las Vegas about 1945 looking toward Charleston Mountains (North West). Road intersection in immediate foreground is that of Fremont Street from the right, Charleston Blvd from the left (Charleston Blvd runs due West); Stamped on back: Las Vegas News Bureau, Las Vegas - Nevada, Photographers Don English - Joe Buck - Jerry Abbott
Transcribed Notes: Notes on back of duplicate photo: Aerial view of Las Vegas w/ new high school on bottom left, c. 1933; Notes on photo sleeve: Aerial view of Las Vegas taken in the winter of 1930 (same day as #0123 002) in clip wing Jenny. Shows railroad and main street - essentially shows the whole city. (Credit: W.A. Davis)
Arivada Ferry, owned by Jim Cashman and operated by Pop Emery. Its primary purpose was to provide a way for Arizonans to get to Nevada where prohibition was not as strictly enforced.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Arivada Ferry, 1916-1920. This ferry was owned by Jim Cashman and operated by Pop Emery (standing, in picture). Originally located at the upper end of Cottonwood Island, a few miles below where the Cottonwood Cove Resort is located, it was later moved due to lack of business to TriState, Nevada, where it served for a short time between the Katherine Mine in Arizona and the TriState Mine in Nevada. Its main purpose here was to provide a way for Arizonans to get to Nevada where prohibition laws were not strictly enforced."
Drilling in the Las Vegas Heights District with Mr. Booth and Mr. Madison performing the work.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from front of photo: "1st well. Vegas Hts. About 1907. Booth & Madison, Drillers."; Transcribed from photo sleeve: "A drill rig which put down the hole for the first well in the Las Vegas Heights District in Las Vegas in 1907. The crew were Booth and Madison."
Aerial view of Las Vegas, looking east down Fremont Street. Jackie Gaughan's Plaza was originally named Union Plaza and is currently called the Plaza Hotel and Casino.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas as it appeared in the late 1940s. In the foreground stands the Union Pacific Depot where Jackie Gaughan's Plaza stands today."
Peter Buol, first mayor of Las Vegas, and two other men next to a drilling rig and a flowing artesian well. Photograph was mounted on cardboard.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from cardboard mount: "Peter Boul (sic) was 1st Mayor of Las Vegas; Died 1964; Boul (sic) came to Pahrump Valley in 1904 to take over Yount Manse; Buol Well - 1914."
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "[L. Foreground, old city hall. R. foreground, post office. Circular Park w/Boy scout structures (7)] "Aerial view of Las Vegas shows old park with race track (about where municipal swimming pool is) Small huts in group were Boy Scout huts made of stone. Scout troups met here surrounded by park taken middle or late 30's."- Dave Coons"