The Ward Lindquist Photograph Collection on Lake Mead (approximately 1945-1956) contains black-and-white photographic prints and negatives primarily from Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, both located in both Arizona and Nevada. The images depict recreational activities at Lake Mead, namely fishing, swimming, boating, and camping. The remaining images depict the exterior and interior of Hoover Dam, as well as nature and wildlife in southern Nevada.
The Ward Lindquist Photograph Collection on Lake Mead (approximately 1945-1956) contains black-and-white photographic prints and negatives primarily from Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, both located in both Arizona and Nevada. The images depict recreational activities at Lake Mead, namely fishing, swimming, boating, and camping. The remaining images depict the exterior and interior of Hoover Dam, as well as nature and wildlife in southern Nevada.
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.
Ward Lindquist was born June 7, 1921 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Lindquist family moved to South Dakota in approximately 1925 and to San Bernardino, California in approximately 1938. Lindquist moved to Las Vegas, Nevada between 1942 and 1945 and he began working at the Lake Mead Lodge as a bartender. He later became a captain for the Lake Mead Boat Company that operated recreational boat tours of Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam. Lindquist later became a sheet metal worker at the Nevada Test Site. He died in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 12, 1982.
Source:
Genealogy files about “Ward A. Lindquist.” Accessed on February 11, 2020 on ancestry.com
Ward Linquist Photograph Collection on Lake Mead, approximately 1945-1956. PH-00084. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated in 1979 by Ward Lindquist; accession number 1979-137.
In 2020, as part of a backlog elimination project, Ryan DiPaolo rehoused some materials, entered the data into ArchivesSpace, and wrote the finding aid.