The Murl Emery Photograph Collection consists of seventeen black-and-white photographic reprints of ferries and recreational activities near Searchlight, Nevada on the Colorado River taken from approximately 1910 to 1946, and reprinted from approximately 1970 to 2004.
The Murl Emery Photograph Collection consists of seventeen photographic reprints of ferries and recreational activities near Cottonwood Cove on the Colorado River taken from approximately 1910 to 1946, and reprinted from approximately 1970 to 2004.
Collection is open for research.
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Materials remain in original order.
Murl Emery was born June 07, 1903 in Colton, California. In the 1930s and 1940s, Emery wandered and boated in previously unexplored areas of the Colorado River. During this time, he started a ferry company that brought Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) workers to construction sites and also gave tours of Cottonwood Cove, a recreation area which he helped develop. Murl Emery passed away in March 1981 at his home in Boulder City, Nevada.
Source:
Murl Emery oral history interview, 1976 March 26, 1976 April 02. OH-00539. Transcript. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Murl Emery Photograph Collection, approximately 1970-2004. PH-00126. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives in 1981; accession number 1981-127.
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Joseph Puentes created the finding aid and entered finding aid data into ArchivesSpace.