Engineering Manuscript collections
Boyle
Field Engineering Collection of C.D. Baker
Coll # 87-02
Date: 1909 -1965
Extent 2 record storage boxes
Collection is comprised of the field notebooks of Charles Duncan
(CD) Baker, City Engineer and
County Surveyor responsible for planning and supervising most downtown
Las Vegas street
construction prior to WWII. Baker later served as Las Vegas mayor
and Nevada assemblyman and senator. The field notebooks contain
survey coordinates and elevation data for much of early Las Vegas.
The notebooks provide important information on early property boundaries,
historical elevations and lengths of existing streets at the time.
INVENTORY AVAILABLE
Brown, Harlan
Coll # 1023-1
Date: 1943-1956
Extent 2 folders
Collection consists of mimeographed copy of the Index to Las Vegas
City Charter (1943), Chicago Tribune newspaper (8/12/52) focusing
on engineers and their achievements, and official drawings of lots
and additions with Harlan Brown's signature of approval as a registered
professional engineer in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Clary, Ernest
Coll # Mss21
Date: 1944
Extent 1 folder (containing 51 items -- text, maps)
Collection contains a history (typescript) of the Civil Engineering
unit of Basic Magnesium
Incorporated (BMI) with text, figures,maps, and blueprints. It also
contains a newspaper article
"Caught on the Run," a humorous article/political commentary
about the work ethic of the Los Angeles City Hall employees.
Ives, Joseph C.
Coll # 1012
Date: 1857-1858
Extent 1 folder
Collection consists of 17 letters (photocopies) between Lt. Joseph
C. Ives (United States Army
Corps of Topographic Engineers) and his wife, Cora Semmes Ives,
between Sept. 1857 and June 1858. Ives was in command of a U.S.
Army expedition whose mission was to explore the region of the Colorado
River and the Grand Canyon, and to establish the limit of navigation
of the Colorado River. The correspondence is largely personal in
nature, but is a useful supplement to the official report documenting
the voyage, Report Upon the Colorado River of the West -- Explored
in 1857-58.
Las Vegas City, Engineering and Planning
Coll # 86-69
Date: 1949 - 1975
Extent 2 record storage boxes (2 linear ft)
Collection contains various published studies and reports dealing
with transportation in the Las Vegas Valley. Documents include environmental
action plans, reports, evaluations of parking, highway projects
and budgets for projects; includes some publications of codes and
standards. Also contains a significant amount of information on
Interstate 15. INVENTORY AVAILABLE
Malone, George
Coll # Mss37
Date: 1928 -1933
Extent 1 folder (contains 343 items, bound)
Collection consists of one bound volume of letters, documents, speeches,
reports and maps
pertaining to George W. Malone's position as Nevada State Engineer;
National Executive
Committeeman, American Legion; President, Association of Western
Engineers; Secretary, Colorado River Commission; member, Nevada
State Range Commission.
McWilliams, Iona and J.T.
Coll # T62
Date: 1936 - 1960
Extent 3 document boxes
Collection is comprised of the papers of Las Vegas pioneers J.T.
McWilliams and wife Iona
McWilliams. J.T. McWilliams, a surveyor and civil engineer, founded
the original Las Vegas townsite ("McWilliams Town")
and owned a large portion of Lee Canyon, much of which he donated
to become a public park. Collection is comprised of McWilliams'
financial ledgers from 1905 listing property sales by block and
lot in the original Las Vegas townsite, expenses, and a copy of
the deed to his Goodsprings property. Other items include receipts,
correspondence photographs, maps (including those of the original
Las Vegas townsite), ads for McWilliams maps, and surveying manuals.
Wieking, Henry C
Coll # 1031-2
Date: 1932
Extent 1 folder
Collection consists of the personal recollections (including daily
journal pages) of Henry C. Wieking, foreman at the BLM's Concrete
Testing Laboratory, the agency charged with screening the gravel
that was used to make the concrete for Hoover Dam. Also contains
newspaper clippings and a BLM memorandum. Wieking writes of the
lab established at the Las Vegas Fort in the early 1930s.
