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Welcome to Las Vegas: The Gateway to Boulder Dam banner across Fremont Street, June 23, 1919. The welcome was for Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior who had come to Las Vegas to determine whether the community would be the center of Dam Construction or whether another town would be built at the Dam site. Physical object has an insert containing additional biographical information.

The interior of Wellington saloon with the owners Burdick & Thurman. Handwritten identification on a note attached to the back of the image: 1) Ray Thurman 2) Tom Davis 3) [?] 4) "Vic" Troise 5) Charles Frost 6) Ray Rice 7) John Howe 8) Lewis - a car (?) 9) C. E. Burdick 10) [?] 11) [?] 12) [?] 13) [?] 14) [?] 15) [?] 16) [?] 17) [?] 18) [?] 19) [?] 20) Ed Martin 21) Howard Pukins 22) [?] 23) [?] 24) [?] 25) [?] 26) Light Wheatley.