The Barbara and John Kizziar Photograph Collection primarily contains black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) construction during John Kizziar’s time working for Six Companies Inc. between approximately 1986 and 1992. These images are reproductions of originals taken from between approximately 1930 and 1945. They detail John Kizziar’s work life during the dam’s construction, as well as events and scenes associated with the dam. Other images portray billboards and streets in Boulder City, Nevada. The collection also depicts other locations in Nevada, including Las Vegas, Mount Charleston, Black Canyon, the northern Mojave Desert, and the Colorado River ferry crossing between Nevada and Arizona.
The Barbara and John Kizziar Photograph Collection primarily contains black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) construction during John Kizziar’s time working for Six Companies Inc. between approximately 1986 and 1992. These images are reproductions of originals taken from between approximately 1930 and 1945. They detail John Kizziar’s work life during the dam’s construction, as well as events and scenes associated with the dam. Other images portray billboards and streets in Boulder City, Nevada. The collection also depicts other locations in Nevada, including Las Vegas, Mount Charleston, Black Canyon, the northern Mojave Desert, and the Colorado River ferry crossing between Nevada and Arizona.
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 as they were received.
Barbara Kizziar was born on March 13, 1915 in Cleburne, Texas to John Henry Myers and Stella Ann Stephans. She married John T. Kizziar on October 1, 1937 in California. She died on January 3, 2005 in Fullerton, California.
John Thomas Kizziar Jr. was born in Cleburne, Texas on May 10, 1910 to John Thomas Kizziar Sr. and Mattie Lee Tarter. He was a worker employed by Six Companies Inc. during the contruction of Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) in the early 1930s, where he resided in Boulder City, Nevada. He married Barbara Leona Myers on October 1, 1937 in California. Kizziar died on July 21, 2000 in Fullerton, California.
Sources:
Barbara and John Kizziar Photograph Collection, approximately 1986-1992. PH-00272. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Genealogy files about "John T. Kizziar" Accessed on May 13, 2020 on familysearch.org
Genealogy files about "Barbara Leone Myers." Accessed on May 13, 2020 on familysearch.org
Barbara and John Kizziar Photograph Collection, approximately 1986-1992. PH-00272. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated in 1992 by Barbara and John T. Kizziar; accession number 92-3.
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Jimmy Chang wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.