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Interview with Katie McWilliam, July 9, 2004

Date
2004-07-09
Description
Narrator affiliation: Consultant for Seismological Issues
Access note: Audio temporarily sealed

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Interview with Edward Bonfoy Giller, April 19, 2006

Date
2006-04-19
Description
Narrator affiliation: U.S. Air Force General; Director Military Application, U.S. Atomic Energy

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Interview with Donald E. English, March 25, 2004

Date
2004-03-25
Description
Narrator affiliation: Photographer, Las Vegas News Bureau

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Superior Court of California summons

Date
1938-01-05
Description
This folder is from "Legal Records" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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Transcript of interview of Thalia Dondero by Mary Germain, March 13, 1976

Date
1976-03-13
Description

On March 13, 1976, Mary Germain interviewed Thalia Dondero (born 1921 in Greeley, Colorado) about her life in Nevada and her experiences as the first female commissioner for the Clark County Commission. Dondero first talks about her upbringing and her eventual move to Southern Nevada. She also discusses her involvement in extracurricular activities, such as being a leader for the Girl Scouts, and how some of those experiences led her to get involved in politics. Dondero also mentions her work with National Geographic and her passion for working with oil paintings and watercolors. The final part of the interview involves some of Dondero’s accounts as a commissioner for Clark County and some of the challenges she has faced in that position.

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Great Northern Hotel luncheon menu, Wednesday, February 10, 1909

Date
1909-02-10
Description
Note: Embossed portrait of Lincoln on the cover. Quotations from Lincoln are printed throughout the menu. Lyrics from several patriotic songs are also included. The address "The message of Abraham Lincoln to our generation" was given by Rev. Frank G. Smith Menu insert: Music Programs; Quotations; Song Lyrics Restaurant: Great Northern Hotel Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States

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New Year's dinner for employees of the Eagle & Phenix Mills and Girard Cotton Mills, menu, January 6, 1904, Springer's Hotel

Date
1904-01-06
Description
Note: Dinner is "complimentary to the overseers, office employees and officials of the Eagle & Phenix Mills and Girard Cotton Mills." Menu is attached over a swatch of plaid fabric, which lifts up to show part of an advertisement for Eagle & Phenix Mills' products, which is illustrated by a drawing of a woman wearing a kimono (beginning of the advertisement is missing). Back of the menu has another advertisement and illustration of the Eagle & Phenix Mills in Columbus, Georgia Menu insert: Advertisements Restaurant: Springer's Hotel Location: Columbus, Georgia, United States

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Photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hoover Dam, September 30, 1935

Date
1935-09-30
Description
Black and white image of President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering the dedication address at Hoover Dam. The sign underneath him reads: "Franklin D. Roosevelt; President of the United States; Dedicating the Boulder Dam - Sept. 30, 1935." Handwritten text on the image reads: "Photographed by Walter J. Lubken, Six Com. Inc." Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

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Photograph of power plant, Hoover Dam, February 23, 1939

Date
1939-02-23
Description
Black and white image of John Chatfield Page, Senator Harold L. Ickes, Mrs. Ickes, and I. C. Harris, in the Nevada wing of the Hoover Dam power plant. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

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