You are here
Photo Collections Record
0097Junior League of Las Vegas
(To access this collection, contact Special Collections or use this feedback form.)
Nevada
Postcard Collection
0001 Drawing of Hoover Dam
0002 Overlooking reservoir site.
0003 Crossing the desert, Arrowhead Trail
0004 The Valley of Fire
0005 A dry lake near Hoover Dam.
0006 Colorado River looking upstream. Boulder dam site, 1931.
0007 Entrance to one of four diversion tunnels.
0008 Diverting the Colorado River through giant tunnels.
0009 Clark County Court House, Las Vegas.
0010 Looking west on Fremont Street, Las Vegas.
0011 Boulder Dam as it will look when completed.
0012 Looking upstream. Colorado River and Boulder Dam.
0013 Boulder Dam and Lower portals and diversion tunnels
0014 A close-up of Boulder Dam construction
0015 Boulder Dam and lower portals and diversion tunnels
0016 Union Pacific Miracle Train passing through a thirty ft. intake pipe at the Boulder Dam project.
0017 Showing the immense concrete forms of Hoover Dam.
0018 Boulder Dam at night
0019 Boulder City. A model city built to house the workmen engaged on the Boulder Dam Project.
0020 Boulder Dam, View from Lookout Point
OUT OF STATE
Yuma , Arizona
0021 Colorado River in Yuma. (Postcard)
Death Valley, California
0022 The guest house and main building of Scotty's Castle. (postcard)
0023 Graves of James Dayton and Shorty Harris. (postcard)
0024 Elaborate door with hand wrought hinges in Scotty's Castle (postcard)
0025 Watchtower at Scotty's Castle. (postcard)
0026 Interior of Scotty's Castle. (postcard)
0027 Charcoal kilns in Wild Rose Canyon. (postcard)
0097 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS COLLECTION
People
0028 Alice Ann Fry. Junior League member Died in 1973
ADDITIONS TO COLLECTION
The following 3 photos taken out of Service League (Jr. League of Las Vegas) Scrapbook 1946-52.
0029 L-R: Adele Smith , Sue Beeman, Kathryn Von Tobel, Shirley Dimock Ballinger, Ellen Albright, Dorothy Cannon, Dona M. Schultz, Pauline Conway, Mildred Hoy Williams, Olga Silvagni Moe, Alice Ann Fry and Mary Hirsch in lobby of Last Frontier Hotel, 1947.
0030 L-R: Okla Belle Malone Jones, Beda Cornwall, Dorothy Cannon, Lillian Hicks and Bea Barron at home of Bea Barron, honorary member, June 1948.
0031 Benefit held at Moore home, May 21, 1950. Joe Shramm, C. Wood Pierce and Abe Schiller.
Early Las Vegas
0032 First State Bank. Was the first permanent two story building in Las Vegas, located at 1st and Fremont Streets. (c. 1905)
0033 A freight train (team of mules and wagon), used for transportation to mining areas. (1905-1910)
0034 Mule-drawn freight wagon in front of Block 16 and the Arizona Club, Las Vegas, Nevada. (c. 1905) Used for transportation to mining areas.
0035 First hotel in Las Vegas-The Hotel Las Vegas on Main Street. (1905)
0036 View of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad yards. 1906 or 1907. In the background is a fifty ton capacity ice house which burned in the summer of 1907.
0037 Ranch house at Las Vegas Ranch. (n.d.)
0038 Arizona Club (interior), Las Vegas, Nevada. (c.1905)
0039 Early miner holding a baby burro. (no date or identification)
0040 Surveyors on the railroad (no date). Location is the Manvel, California area. L-R: Charles Whittemore, Judge Davis. Person at right not identified. They were surveying in preparation for the building of the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railroad, c. 1905.
0041 Ranch house and southwest wall of Mormon Fort, c.1905. (Building at left was the headquarters of the Las Vegas Ranch)
0042 Clayson and Griffith, and early tent store in Las Vegas (1905) One of the founders of E.W. Griffith who later owned a building on 2nd and Fremont (Golden Nugget site)
0043 Main street looking east, railroad houses in background. (1908)
0097 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS COLLECTION
Early Las Vegas (cont.)
0044 Las Vegas residential area showing power poles, dirt streets, and limited living conditions. (c.1910)
0045 Fremont Street from 2nd Street, looking west. (1908)
0046 Fremont Street looking west. (1908)
0047 Auction of lots in Clark's Las Vegas Townsite (1910) Man in back wearing suspenders (no hat) is C.O. Whittemore, attorney for the SP, LA, and SL Railroad.
0048 [Early Las Vegas? [ n.d]
Later Las Vegas after 1910
0049 First State Bank, corner of First and Fremont Streets, c. 1919.
0050 Las Vegas. Main Street looking towards Sunrise Mountain, c.1908-1912.
0051 Miners and burros Sunrise Mountain in background.(n.d.)
0052 San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Depot, Las Vegas, Nevada. (c. 1910)
0053 Las Vegas, Nevada, c. 1910. Mission-style building at back is the SP, LA, SL Railroad Depot.
0054 Aerial view of Las Vegas (1915)
0055 Las Vegas High School, built 1910. When a new high school was built in 1929, this became Fifth Street Grammar School.
0056 Artesian well-Las Vegas. (People not indemnified, no date, c. 1910)
0057 Overland Hotel fire. 1911.
0058 No identification Overland Hotel fire. 1911.
0059 Artesian well gushing.
0060 Clark County High School basketball team, 1912. Players not identified
0061 Men riding in early motor car. (persons, date, and place not identified.
Las Vegas (1920s-1950s)
0062 Fremont Street, looking west, c. 1920s. At end of street is SP, LA & SL Railroad Depot.
0063 Fremont Street, looking east. (1926)
0064 Looking east on Fremont Street , c. 1920s
0065 Overland Hotel at Main and Fremont, Las Vegas, 1920.
0066 Hotel Nevada, southeast corner of Main and Fremont. (1920s)
0067 View of railroad yards and ice plant, Las Vegas, Nevada. (Back, left.) (c.1915-1920)
0068 Clark County Court House, Las Vegas, Nevada. It was built in 1914. (Photo by Oakes)
0097 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS COLLECTION
Las Vegas (1920s-1950s) (cont.)
0069 Hospital on No. 2nd Street, Las Vegas. Formerly the Palace Hotel it was converted into hospital by Dr. Roy W. Martin. (1928)
0070 Bunting decorated the depot at the opening of construction in 1930 of the branch line to Boulder City. (Union Pacific Railroad photo)
0071 Aerial view of Las Vegas in the early 1930s
0072 Helldorado Parade, horse-drawn stage coach. Las Vegas, Nevada, c. 1930s
0073 Club Bingo-Las Vegas, Nevada, c. 1950s. (Today the Sahara Hotel is where the Club Bingo stood.)
0074 Death Valley Express wagon in Helldorado Parade, c. 1930s. "Pop" Squires is seated in wagon (wearing checkered shirt)
0075 Gambling scene
0076 Ca. 1940 Las Vegas, Depot yards, roundhouse and shops and growing city. (Union Pacific Railroad photo)
0077 Passengers arriving for Helldorado (1944). They are being met by a stage coach. (Union Pacific Railroad photo)
0078 Time capsule placed at the opening of the Union Pacific Depot (1940). It was opened in 1970 when the depot was razed to make space for the Union Plaza Hotel. (Union Pacific Railroad photo)
Boulder Dam Project
0079 Principles involved in the signing of the Boulder Dam bill, Dec. 21, 1928. L-R: Elwood Mead, Phil Swing, Sen. Hiram Johnson, Addison T. Smith, and W.B. Matthews.
0080 Black Canyon reservoir site from Monument Pass on the Nevada side of the Colorado Rive. (6-23-29)
0081 Union Pacific passengers were told about the Boulder Dam Project by this sign on the platform in 1929. (Union Pacific Railroad photo)
0082 When the Union Pacific railroad connected with the Boulder City branch of the railroad. (Sept. 17, 1930)
0083 Boulder City and Hoover Dam Project near Las Vegas, Nevada. (c. 1930)
0084 Crow's Nest above the site of Boulder Dam. (1930s)
Miscellaneous
0085 Fishermen landing a fish at Lake Mead.
0086 Boats docked at Lake Mead.
0087 Basic Magnesium Industries. (c. 1940s)
0088 BMI-interior of caustic evaporation building, 1st floor.
0089 Aerial of downtown Las Vegas. Union Plaza Hotel is in the lower left corner. (c. 1970s)
0097 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS COLLECTION
Miscellaneous (cont.)
0090 James R. Dickinson Library, University of Nevada Las Vegas (1960s-1970s)
0091 Flora Dungan Humanities Building, University of Nevada Las Vegas (1970s)
0092 Campus of University of Nevada Las Vegas (1970)
0093 Las Vegas Convention Center (c. 1960s-1970s)
0094 University of Nevada Las Vegas campus. (1970)
0095 Stardust Hotel Auditorium (1960s-1970s)
0096 Jimmy Durante performing in Las Vegas.
0097 Publicity photo promoting Las Vegas tourism (1940s) Shows man canoeing on a lake with two men on horseback on the shore.
0098 Western publicity photo-people on horseback in the desert-promoting tourism in Las Vegas. (1940s)
0099 Portrait of Senator William A. Clark.
0100 Native American Women
0101 Native American Women
0102 Man and his horse
0103 Coal train leaving Las Vegas railroad yard, 1969. (UP Railroad photo)
0104 New Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Las Vegas, Nevada. (c. 1940) (Union Pacific Railroad Photo)
0105 Arrival of the "City of Las Vegas" on its inaugural run from Los Angeles in December 1956. (Union Pacific Railroad photo)
0106 "City of Las Vegas" Aerotrain which shuttled fun seekers between Southern California and Las Vegas. Shown at Union Pacific Depot, Las Vegas, ca. 1956. (UP Railroad Photo)
0107 This train , a later version of "City of Las Vegas", was renamed "Las Vegas Holiday Special" Shown at the UP Depot, Las Vegas, 1957. (UP Railroad photo)