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Letter from F. R. McNamee (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), August 15, 1913

Date
1913-08-15
Description

McNamee detailed the exact amount of water due the Stewarts and approved the installation of a pipe to guarantee delivery.

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Letter from Mr. Wood (Las Vegas) to Walter R. Bracken, February 13, 1926

Date
1927-03-03
Description

Suggestions of a few minor changes that would allow the Las Vegas Ranch to become profitable in a few years time, as it has the essential fundamentals.

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Railway switchyard: photographic print

Date
1942 (year approximate) to 1949 (year approximate)
Description
Railway switchyard near control house.

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Letter from J. K. W. Bracken to J. Ross Clark, March 26, 1903

Date
1903-03-26
Description
Bracken states that he will be willing to go the Las Vegas Ranch and discusses the time frame for such travels.

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Photograph of the Googie style front entrance of the Thunderbird Hotel (Las Vegas), circa 1950s

Date
1950 to 1959
Description

Front entrance of the Thunderbird including the porte-cochère. Stamped on original: "Please credit Union Pacific Railroad Photo, Public Relations Department, 422 West 6th St., Los Angeles 14, Calif, File Print Stock, Los Angeles Neg."
Site Name: Thunderbird Hotel
Address: 2755 Las Vegas Boulevard South

Architecture and Design Style: Googie

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Las Vegas Land & Water Company (LVL&W), 1828-1976

Level of Description
Series
Scope and Contents

The Las Vegas Land & Water Company series (1905-1976). This series contains files kept by Walter Bracken, the resident Las Vegas agent of the Las Vegas Land & Water Company. Materials include leases of the railroad’s Las Vegas properties, as well as the construction, maintenance and management of the city’s water facilities. This series also includes Bracken's files of Las Vegas railroad operations. Bracken’s Las Vegas files were later transferred and incorporated into files kept in Los Angeles by the railroad’s General Manger, Manager of Properties, and Manager of Industrial Development, for railroad property and right-of-way in Nevada outside Las Vegas and in California. The series also contains the LVL&W corporate records, including Board of Directors meetings, correspondence, financial accounts, etc., which had always been kept in Los Angeles, as well as the later correspondence of the Las Vegas agents.

Archival Collection
Union Pacific Railroad Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00397
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

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

Date
1906
Description
41 x 29 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Copyright held by George S. Clason. Includes index. "Compliments of Aston & Sears ... Goldfield, Nevada." Red stars probably indicate location of towns with either offices of or claims owned by Aston & Sears. Shows railroad routes. Ad for shares in the Diamond Bullfrog claim on verso. Original publisher: Clason Map Co..

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John Friel oral history interview

Identifier
OH-00632
Abstract

Oral history interview with John Friel conducted by James Friel on February 29, 1980 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Friel discusses his knowledge of his family’s personal history in Tonopah, Nevada during the 1940s, the growth of railroads, and population changes.

Archival Collection

Letter from E. E. Bennett to Howard W. Blanchard (Washington, D. C.), April 19, 1954

Date
1954-04-19
Description

Bennett was requesting the name of the chairman of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee as well as members so see if there were any that he could influence for a favorable passage of the water district right-of-way bills.

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Frank Scott oral history interview

Identifier
OH-01657
Abstract

Oral history interview with Frank Scott conducted by Richard Lloyd Pipkins on January 23, 1978 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Scott discusses the history of Las Vegas, Nevada since the 1930s. He talks about the changes in crime, people settling in the city, and the railroad history of Las Vegas.

Archival Collection