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Photograph of Elton Garrett and students, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1940s

Date
Unknown year in the decade of the 1940s (year approximate)
Description
Elton Garrett [right] poses with students in front of a building in Boulder City. Note: Patron commented that Mary Jane Carter Smith of the Boulder City High School Class of 1943 identified the following individuals in this photograph: unnamed teacher, unknown male, Mary Robertson, Frank Shelton, Delores Brown, Bob Clark, Lola Dunbar, Elton Garrett (teacher). Also commented that the photograph was probably taken around 1942.

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Photograph of the Arivada Ferry, 1916-1920

Date
1916 (year approximate) to 1920 (year approximate)
Description

Arivada Ferry, owned by Jim Cashman and operated by Pop Emery. Its primary purpose was to provide a way for Arizonans to get to Nevada where prohibition was not as strictly enforced.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Arivada Ferry, 1916-1920. This ferry was owned by Jim Cashman and operated by Pop Emery (standing, in picture). Originally located at the upper end of Cottonwood Island, a few miles below where the Cottonwood Cove Resort is located, it was later moved due to lack of business to TriState, Nevada, where it served for a short time between the Katherine Mine in Arizona and the TriState Mine in Nevada. Its main purpose here was to provide a way for Arizonans to get to Nevada where prohibition laws were not strictly enforced."

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Transcript of interview with Christopher Phipps by Dennis McBride, November 6, 1998

Date
1998-11-06
Description

Christopher Phipps, attorney in Las Vegas discusses his life. Hailing from Honolulu, Hawaii, and his adventure that led him to Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Photograph of Steve Rossi, Ed Sullivan, Toni Clark, Elaine Rossi, Sylvia Sullivan, Frenchy Allen, and Marty Allen, Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa mid-late 1960s

Date
1964 (year approximate) to 1968 (year approximate)
Description

L-R: Steve Rossi, Ed Sullivan, Toni Clark, Elaine Rossi, Sylvia Sullivan, Frenchy Allen, Marty Allen and an unidentified woman near the Versailles Room in the Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. A sign in the lower right corner reads "Bob Patrick, Las Vegas."

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Photograph of Ray Lyman Wilbur II and Ray Lyman Wilbur III, Hoover Dam, circa 1950s

Date
1950 to 1959
Description
The caption on the back of the image reads, " "Like grandfather, like father, like son" is an appropriate title for this photograph of Ray Lyman Wilbur II and Ray Lyman Wilbur III, reading the name of Ray Lyman Wilbur I on a bronze plaque at the Hoover Dam. As noted on the plaque, Ray Lyman Wilbur I was secretary of the Interior during President Hoover's administration and played a major role in administrative matters pertaining to the construction of Hoover Dam. His son and grandson, shown here, were visitors to the dam recently and were given a specially-conducted tour by the Bureau of Reclamation's guide service. The father and son reside at 1808 Indiana Street, Vallejo, California. The plaque is on the left hand side of the entrance to the Hoover Dam's Arizona elevator tower through which a third of a million visitors leave the dam and power plant each year following guided tours of this mammoth structure on the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona. Guided tours of the dam and power plant, starting at the elevator tower on the Nevada side, are available daily to the public between the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ca. 1950's (Bureau of Reclamation photo)."

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Photograph of men during a hutning trip, Nevada National Forest, circa 1941

Date
1941 (year approximate)
Description
Men posing in front of Bald Mountain.

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Photograph of scenes of the hunting party, Nevada National Party, circa 1941

Date
1941 (year approximate)
Description
Men on horses and the deer they killed in the bottom photograph.

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Photograph of scenes of the hunting party, Nevada National Party, circa 1941

Date
1941 (year approximate)
Description
The men posing with the deer they killed on the hunting party.

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Photograph of men on horses, Nevada National Forest, circa 1941

Date
1941 (year approximate)
Description
James Cashman riding "Shorty" on the top, and Chet on "old Sorrell" on the bottom.

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Photograph of scenes of the hunting party, Nevada National Party, circa 1941

Date
1941 (year approximate)
Description
The hunting party on horses and posing with their deer.

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