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Destruction left behind after fire near Colorado River and Hoover Dam at government-created town of Williamsville, nicknamed "Ragtown," 1931. News article included with the image reads: ""BLAZE AT DAM CONSUMES SIX HOMES TODAY -- Six families at the river landing are without homes and belongings as a result of a brush fire which started about 10 o'clock this morning. While the fire was soon under control the flames during the blaze were at times 50 feet high, fanned by a high wind which rushed down the canyon. Sergeat Clyatt, a one time cook at a military school in the east, who had a bakeshop at the landing, was also burned out, but as he still had his oven, and he had his dough ready for baking, he established a relief station immediately and at last reports was serving bread and coffee to the homeless families. -- LAS VEGAS EVENING REVIEW JOURNAL, March 28, 1931, p. 1, col. 6.""

School at St. Thomas, a settlement just outside of Overton, Nevada. The area was later flooded by the reservoir. Note with image: "W.A. 'Wint' and Elsie Davis were married here in 1930."

Arlene Mathews Smith stands outside of a car with an unidentified man in Coyote Springs, NV 1924. A banner on the car reads: "Lincoln, Reno"