Pictured is the residential area in downtown Las Vegas, 1926, on South Second Street. From left, the houses shown are: the home of State Senator E. W. Griffith; a rental house twenty feet wide; the Ed Von Tobel, Sr. house at 214 South Second; and a house originally built by Ed Smith, engineer on the first SP, LA & SL R.R. train to come to Las Vegas 1905. At the time of this photo, the Smith home was owned by Mr. and Mrs. William Norton Schuyler. Physical object has an insert containing additional biographical information.
Left to right shown are: Elwood Mead, Comm. Of Reclamation; Phil Swing, author of the bill, a member of House of Representatives from California; President Coolidge; U.S. senator Hiram Johnson, another author of the boulder Dam bill; Addison T. Smith, Chairman, Committee on Reclamation, House of Representatives; W.B. Matthews, General Counsel, Boulder Dam Association, Los Angeles, California. The occasion is the signing of the Boulder Dam bill, Dec. 21, 1928.
The depot constructed by the SP, LA & SL R.R. which stood at the west end of Fremont Street. This photo was taken in 1929. Physical object has an insert containing additional biographical information.
Fremont Street, looking west, June 2, 1931. The El Portal Theatre is shown at the right of the photo. Physical object has an insert containing additional biographical information.
Night Club Row, which included the Red Mill (left) and the Black Cat (right), was located on East Charleston Boulevard, just east of Fremont Street intersection, 1932. Physical object has an insert containing additional biographical information.
On April 23, 1932, the Hoover Dam construction site was the scene for an unprecedented "hot sands" initiation ceremony by the Al Malaikah Temple of the Shrine of Los Angeles. Physical object has an insert containing additional biographical information.