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Photograph of visitors inside powerhouse at Hoover Dam, circa 1935-1940

Date
1935 to 1940
Description
An image from the power generator floor of visitors standing on a viewpoint platform inside the Hoover Dam powerhouse. Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

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Brett Levner Holocaust Survivors Reflect project videos and working files, 2013

Level of Description
File
Scope and Contents

Materials include final cut of video, interviews with 21 Holocaust survivors, and working files such as video production files and introductions and questions for the survivor interviews.

Archival Collection
Generations of the Shoah - Nevada Records
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Collection Number: MS-00720
Collection Name: Generations of the Shoah - Nevada Records
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

Archival Component

Photograph of Hoover Dam downstream, Boulder City (Nev.), 1940s

Date
1940 to 1949
Description
Downstream side of Hoover Dam showing the electric generators and lines that create hydroelectric power. The Colorado River reaches right up to the Dam's wall. Photograph by Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada.

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Letter from H. T. Coffey (Las Vegas) to Walter R. Bracken, January 3, 1925

Date
1925-05-26
Description

Coffey recommends not installing a hydropower water wheel on the Las Vegas Creek, but increasing capacity at the Las Vegas Power plant. The higher initial cost would be beneficial in the long run. "W-2-4-2" in pencil in upper right corner, letter also has numerous pencil corrections.

Text

Postcard of Hoover Dam, circa 1936-1955

Date
1936 to 1955
Description
Hoover Dam's generators in the Power House.

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Audio clip from interview with Gil Shaw, May 3, 2016

Date
2016-05-03
Description

In this audio clip, Gil Shaw talks about being the default historian for Congregation Ner Tamid, and his interest in preserving history for future generations.

Sound

Fiol, Raymonde "Ray"

Holocaust survivor; works with Holocaust Survivors' Group of Southern Nevada and Generations of the Shoah

Person