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Aerial photograph of Las Vegas, northwest direction, circa 1920
Aerial view of Las Vegas
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Aerial photograph of Union Pacific Railroad yards, Las Vegas, late 1920s
Aerial view of Las Vegas and Union Pacific Railroad yards.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "[Identified by Dave Coons as LV Valley w/UPRR yards in Foreground. Late 1920s?] [Kim Geary - Roberts IDs ca 1931. EP 6-21-84]."
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Aerial photograph of Las Vegas looking northwest, late 1950s
Aerial view of Las Vegas looking northwest. Fremont Street in center, running west.
Transcribed Notes: Notes on photo sleeve: Aerial view of Las Vegas looking west. Fremont Street in center, running west.
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Aerial photograph of Las Vegas, full view of high school, southwest direction, 1930
Aerial view of Las Vegas in 1930
Transcribed Notes: Notes on back of duplicate photo: Aerial view of Las Vegas w/ new high school on bottom left, c. 1933; Notes on photo sleeve: Aerial view of Las Vegas taken in the winter of 1930 (same day as #0123 002) in clip wing Jenny. Shows railroad and main street - essentially shows the whole city. (Credit: W.A. Davis)
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Photograph of settling basin at the head of Hemenway Wash for water purification works in Boulder City, circa 1931
Settling basin at the head of Hemenway Wash for water purification works in Boulder City.
Transcribed Notes: Stamped on back of photo: Photograph by W. A. Davis Box 1169, Las Vegas, Nevada; Notes on photo sleeve: [Setting basin for making concrete. Upstream from the Dam about 5-10 miles. R.R. track may have crossed over to Arizona.] Photographer W.A. Davis disagrees: says this is part of a water purification plant; the settling basin shown purifies water. (documentation, 4/92)
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Letter from W. D. Johnston (Los Angeles) to A. Maguire, regarding water supply at Las Vegas, June 12, 1924
Details some of the struggles the Las Vegas Land and Water Co. was having in an attempt to increase production in the midst of a water shortage.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles), regarding water from well and springs, August 8, 1934.
Walter Bracken asking for permission to fill in the swimming pool and use the company drag line to clean out the ditch to the Las Vegas Ranch so overflow could be used by the lesee rather than go to waste.
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Agreement with Mrs. Carl Shurtliff covering purchase of water for use at Overton, Nevada, February 13, 1949
Contract between Mrs. Shurtliff and the Union Pacific for the railroad to supply water (N. L. D. 2131)
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Letter from W. R. Armstrong (Los Angeles) to E. E. Cunningham, August 17, 1928
Logandale, Nevada lacked a water system and McNamee thought that if the railroad supplied Bishop Jones with water, others would expect the same.
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