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Telegram from E.E. Calvin , August 18, 1922

Date
1922-08-18
Description
Telegram from E.E. Calvin , August 18, 1922

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Arthur Walker Gregory Photograph Collection

Identifier
PH-00197
Abstract

The Arthur Walker Gregory Photograph Collection, approximately 1900 to 1920, consists of black-and-white photographic prints, and two corresponding negatives. Two of the images depict the first train to arrive in Las Vegas, Nevada from Salt Lake City, Utah in 1905, one with railroad employees in the foreground. The remaining images depict Arthur Walker Gregory’s class photographs at the Las Vegas Grammar School when he was in the first, third, and fifth grades.

Archival Collection

Postcard front

Description
Train engine and railroad workers in early days of Nevada. The postcard photo courtesy of Southern Nevada Museum.

Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to William M. Jeffers (Omaha, Nebraska), December 17, 1939

Date
1939-12-17
Description

Bracken telling Jeffers that the Stewarts were seeking financial gain from the railroad company, yet something needed be done to supply them with water. He gave three possible solutions. A copy of Stewart heirs' letter is referenced below.

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Sketch map of Nevada and the southeastern portion of California, 1906

Date
1906
Description
1907 written in red pencil at top of map. 41 x 29 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Copyright held by George S. Clason. Includes index. "Compliments of A.E. Holt, real estate and mines, Bullfrog Mining Dist., Rhyolite, Nevada." Red star indicates location of A.E. Holt company. Shows railroad routes. Library's copy has "1907" printed with brown crayon in upper margin and has four sets of two holes punched in a vertical line along the right third of the map. Original publisher: Clason Map Co..

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