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Transcript of interview with Emma Ellsworth by Clark Ellsworth, March 5, 1980
Date
1980-03-05
Description
On March 5, 1980, Clark Ellsworth interviewed his grandmother, Emma Ellsworth (born 1902 in Payson, Utah) about her experiences in Southern Nevada. Ellsworth first talks about growing up in Utah and getting married before moving to Pioche, Nevada during the Great Depression. She also talks about bringing up a family in Las Vegas as well as her and her husband’s work in running Beneficial Life, a life insurance business, in Las Vegas. Ellsworth also talks about the Mormon churches in Las Vegas, the schools her children attended, and the number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren she had at the time.
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Map showing proposed new 12" well and pipe line changes at Water Springs, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1920
Date
1916 to 1925
Description
In lower right corner: '6-W-74.' Scale: 1" = 500'.
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Cost estimate of a five room railroad employee's cottage at Las Vegas (Nev.), July 1,1909
Date
1909-07-01
Description
Typed, itemized estimate of costs for a five room cottage to be built within Clark's Las Vegas Townsite. Document includes item description, material cost, labor cost and total costs for construction and freight. The railroad cottages were built by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company for employees of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad between 1909 and 1911.
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Cost estimate of a four room railroad employee's cottage at Las Vegas (Nev.), July 1, 1909
Date
1909-07-01
Description
Typed, itemized estimate of costs for a four room cottage to be built within Clark's Las Vegas Townsite. Document includes item description, material cost, labor cost and total costs for construction and freight. The railroad cottages were built by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company for employees of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad between 1909 and 1911.
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