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Oral
Histories
| An important thing to keep in mind about history is that most
of what happened in the past was never recorded. For many years
only official documents and influential people were considered historic.
What we have are fragments given to us by observers or first person
eyewitnesses, many of whom had no sense that they were recording
history. Many of these accounts are incomplete and need to be
viewed as a piece of the whole. This section reminds us that another picture of events can be obtained from diaries, letters, interviews, journals, photographs and other artifacts. This picture tells us what common ordinary Americans were doing and thinking. This too makes up the history of this great dam. |
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Leo Dunbar 1st Day of Arrival at Boulder City Government Housing |
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View of married couple housing; Sept. 27, 1931 |
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Children in front of house; January 7, 1932 Marion Allen Housing Oral History |
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Machine shop and warehouses, Boulder City; February 15, 1932 |
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Nevada Boulevard, Boulder City, Nevada; May 13, 1932 Erma Godbey Oral History |
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Tom King's Oral History |
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1st grocery store (Sheilo) in Boulder City; April, 1931 Courtesy of the University of Nevada at Reno Oral Histories |
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View of Boulder City dormitories; Sept. 27, 1931 John F. Cahlan Oral History |
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Bud Budell, chief of security, ___, ___, U.S. Marshall Claude Williams Courtesy of the University of Nevada at Reno Oral Histories |
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| Workers in trucks; November 7, 1931 Carl Merrill Oral History |
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Leo Dunbar Oral History on Sims Ely Bob Parker Oral History on Sims Ely Guy Rocha & Erma Godbey Oral History on Sims Ely |
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1150 man mess hall, boulder City; Sept. 14, 1931 |
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Pool hall in the Recreation Building, Boulder City; May 7, 1932 |
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Soda Fountain, Six Companies Recreation Hall, Boulder City; December 1, 1931 |
Leo Dunbar's Oral History |
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Grocery store in recreation hall; June 2, 1932 |
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Dry goods section of the Boulder City Department Store; June 2, 1932 |
Erma Godbey's Oral History |
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Mary Ann Merrill's Oral History |
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Preparing dynamite; August 15, 1932 |
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High scalers on cliff, over a 1000 feet above the river; August 22, 1932 Carl Merrial Oral History |
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Waterboys; July 14, 1932 John F. Cahlan Oral History |
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California–Nevada Power Company; Sept.18, 1931 |
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View of railroad pass gate after strike; Aug. 1931 Erma Godbey Oral History |
Poem by Claude Rader, a worker on Hoover Dam, as it appeared in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal; November 9, 1931 |
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| Before You Build the Dam | ||
| Controversy over Naming the Dam |
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