Notes
MS 25
William J. "Bill" and Marguerite Williams Papers
inventory
[6 boxes and 1 folder]
Box 1 of 6
folder no.
[personal papers]
1. Bill Williams' driver's license [Oklahoma], 1938
2. employment papers [applications, resumes, notes of
appointment], 1940s-50s
3. navy papers, 1940s-50s
4. job performance awards, 1960s
5. business cards and addresses
6. certificates of appreciation and membership
7. retirement letters, 1980
8. comic drawing by Groesbeck, n. d.
[financial records]
9. tax return, 1952
10. property tax receipt [Clark County, Nevada], 1952
11. contract: sale of 509 Fifth Street in Boulder City, Nevada,
July 15, 1952
12. bank statement and canceled check: American Security and
Trust Co. [December 1955]
13. bank statement and canceled checks: American Security and
Trust Co. [December 1955 - January 1956]
14. bank statement and canceled checks: American Security and
Trust Co. [January - February 1956]
15. bank statement and canceled checks: American Security and
Trust Co. [February - March 1956]
16. bank statement and canceled checks: American Security and
Trust Co. [March - April 1956]
17. bank statement and canceled checks: American Security and
Trust Co. [April - May 1956]
18. bank statement and canceled checks: American Security and
Trust Co. [May - June 1956]
19. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[February 1947]
20. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[January 1948]
21. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[August 1949]
22. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[February 1950]
23. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[November 1951 - January 1952]
24. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[December 1951 - February 1952]
25. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[January - March 1952]
26. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[February - April 1952]
27. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[April - May 1952]
28. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[May - June 1952]
29. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[June - July 1952]
30. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[July - August 1952]
31. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[August - September 1952]
32. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[September - October 1952]
33. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[September - November 1952]
34. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[October - December 1952]
35. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[November 1952 - January 1953]
36. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[January - February 1953]
37. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[March 1953]
38. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[March - April 1953]
39. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[March - May 1953]
40. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[May - June 1953]
41. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[May - July 1953]
42. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[June - August 1953]
43. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[July - September 1953]
44. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[August - October 1953]
45. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[September - November 1953]
46. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[October - December 1953]
47. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[November 1953 - January 1954]
48. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[December 1953 - February 1955]
49. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[January - March 1955]
50. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[March - May 1955]
51. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[May - June 1955]
52. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[May - July 1955]
53. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[July - August 1955]
54. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[July - September 1955]
55. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[August - October 1955]
56. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[September - November 1955]
57. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[October - December 1955]
58. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[November 1955 - January 1956]
59. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[February - March 1956]
60. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[March - April 1956]
61. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[April - May 1956]
62. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[April - June 1956]
63. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[May - July 1956]
64. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[June - August 1956]
65. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[July - September 1956]
66. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[August - October 1956]
67. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[September - November 1956]
68. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[October - December 1956]
69. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[November 1956 - January 1957]
70. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[December 1956 - February 1957]
71. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[January - March 1957]
72. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[February - April 1957]
73. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[March May 1957]
74. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[April - June 1957]
75. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[May - July 1957]
76. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[June - August 1957]
77. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[August - September 1957]
78. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[September - October 1957]
79. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[September - November 1957]
80. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[October - December 1957]
81. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[November 1957 - January 1958]
82. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[December 1957 - February 1958]
83. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[January - March 1958]
84. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[February - April 1958]
85. bank statement and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[March - May 1958]
86. bank statements and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[April - June 1958]
87. bank statements and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[May - July 1958]
88. bank statements and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[June - August 1958]
89. bank statements and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[July - September 1958]
90. bank statements and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[August - October 1958]
91. bank statements and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[September - November 1958]
92. bank statements and canceled checks: Bank of Nevada
[October - December 1958]
93. canceled checks: Bank of Nevada [1957]
94. receipts [1957]
[correspondence - personal]
95. [from] Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum [1993]
96. [from] Brothers, Earl and Louise [1958]
97. [from] Hogben, Joseph [1961]
98. [from] Violin, Jeanette [1960s]
99. [from] Segerblom, Cliff and Gene [1980s-90s]
[correspondence - professional]
100. [from] Boardman, Darlene [1987?]
101. [from] Cannon, Howard [invitation to John F. Kennedy's
speech in Las Vegas on September 28, 1963]
102. [from] Christ Church Episcopal, Las Vegas [1967]
103. [from] Dominy, Floyd [1962]
104. [from] Lemke, W. J. [letter of recommendation, 1945]
105. [from] Stout, Jessie [1954]
106. [from] Straus, Michael [1952]
107. [from] Wagers, Jerry [1977]
Box 2 of 6
[manuscripts - fiction]
1. "The Pious Parson of Pinto" [n. d., c. 1940s]
2. "The Sheriff Came Back" [n. d., c. 1940s-50s (typescript and
carbon)]
3. "The Decoy" [n. d., c. 1940s]
4. "Follow the Decoy" [n. d., c. 1940s]
5. "Follow the Decoy" [n. d., c. 1940s]
6. "Follow the Decoy" [1949]
7. "Follow the Decoy" [n. d., c. 1940s]
8. "His Kingdom for a Son" [1949]
9. humorous [?] anecdote [n. d.]
[manuscripts - nonfiction]
10. "Let's Sell Oklahoma Nationally—How I Would Do It" [1941]
11. letter, re: "King Cotton Girds for Battle" [1945]
12. "Sending Out the Light!" [c. 1953]
13. "Nevada's Ferde GrofŽ" [1954]
14. "Early Churches Influenced Boulder City Life" [1983]
15. "Memorial Day" [n. d.]
16. "Liberty Bell" [n. d.]
17. "Life's Check-Off List" [notes for a talk before the Boulder
City High School Honor Society, n. d.]
[manuscripts - nonfiction: U. S. Bureau of Reclamation]
18. "The Colorado River—Lifeline of the Southwest" [for E. A.
Moritz, 1946]
19. "Boulder Dam and Its Relation to the Colorado River
Development" [for E. A. Moritz, 1947]
20. "Metropolitan Water District" [1948]
21. "The Colorado River" [1948]
22. "Talk by ... E. A. Moritz at Ground Breaking Ceremony for
Construction of Boulder City Junior-Senior High School ... "
[1949]
23. "Talk by ... E. A. Moritz at Dedication of Boulder City
Junior- Senior High School Building ... " [1950]
24. "Talk by ... William J. Williams on the Bureau's Mobile Fair
Exhibit ... " [1952]
25. "The Colorado River Below Davis Dam"
[for E. G. Nielsen, 1954]
26. "The Colorado River Below Davis Dam" [carbon]
27. "Remarks by E. G. Nielsen ... before meeting of county
supervisors and commissioners at Kingman, Arizona ... "
[re: 52nd anniversary of the Federal Reclamation Program,
1954]
28. "Colorado River Lifeline to San Diego" [1954]
29. "Material for inclusion in Commissioner's speech before
Arizona NRA ... " [1954]
30. "Material for inclusion in Commissioner's speech before
Arizona NRA ... " [carbon]
31. "Remarks by E. G. Nielsen ... before Colorado River Water
Users Association" [1954]
32. memorandum, re: tour of Reclamation, U. S. Army and PUD
dams and power plants ... [1956]
33. "Salinity Control—A Phase of Total Water Management"
[1975]
34. "Regional Institutions for Water Management" [1976]
35. "Desalting Along the Colorado River Comes of Age" [1976]
36. "Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program" [script
for slide presentation, 1976]
37. "Your Stake in the Colorado River" [1977]
38. "Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Project" [1977]
39. "Drainage Reduction Program in the Wellton-Mohawk
Irrigation and Drainage District" [1978]
40. "The Town ... That Built ... The Dam ... " ["Reclamation
Era, v. 66:2-3 (Spring/Summer 1981), pp. 4-13]
41. "Corralling the Colorado" [documentary film script, c. 1951]
42. "notes for Mr. [E. G.] Nielsen" [re: San Diego Aqueduct,
n. d., c. 1950s]
[music and poetry]
43. "Office Poetry" [n. d., c. 1941]
44. music: "Hoof Prints in the Sands of Time" [inscribed by
Ferde Grofe and Anna Day, 1951]
45. music: "The Changing Hills" [1951]
46. music: "Theme of Gratitude" [1953]
47. music: "Arizona's Gonna Be My Last Roundup" [n. d.]
48. music: "The Dawn is Breaking and So is My Heart" [n. d.]
49. poems and songs [n. d.]
50. ephemera: United Recording Artists Bureau [UAB, 1954]
51. music: "Flame of Love" [by Edwina Shattles Helmke, 1954]
Box 3 of 6
[Ferde Grofe material]
1. correspondence [1952]
2. correspondence [1953]
3. correspondence [1954]
4. correspondence [1955]
5. correspondence [1957 - 1972]
6. news clippings
7. typescript with corrections: "Boulder City's Fascinating Ferde
Grofe" [by Bill Williams, c. 1963 (see Box 2, ff 13)]
8. ephemera [programs, fliers, etc.]
Box 4 of 6
[phonograph records of Ferde Grofe compositions]
1. "Ferde Grofe Conducts His Death Valley Suite With the Capitol
Symphony Orchestra" [Capitol Records, Inc., H-271-Y1 and
H-271-Z1; 10" disc, 33-1/3 rpm (inscribed by Grofe to Bill and
Marguerite Williams, October 16, 1951)]
The following three-disc set [12", 33-1/3 rpm] was "dubbed from tape"
by the Semon Sound Recording Laboratory in Santa Monica, CA, c.
1952.
2. side A: "Anne and Ferde Grofe at Two Pianos;" "Mardi Gras" [from
the "Mississippi Suit"e]; and "Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address"
side B: "Dawn at Lake Mead" [n. d.]
3. side C: "Alice Blue" and "On the Trail" [3rd movement of the "Grand
Canyon Suit"]
side D: "Valley of the Sun Suite" [composed by Grofe to mark the
50th anniversary of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation and
first performed in Phoenix, Arizona on May 2-3, 1952
during the 21st annual Masque of the Yellow Moon festival
(see Box 3, ff 8 for a program of thi performance)]—"Valley
Full of Ditches" [1st movement] and "Masque of the
Yellow Moon" [3rd movement]
4. side E: "Valley of the Sun Suite"—"The Dam Builders" [2nd
movement]
side F: "Valley of the Sun Suite"—"Golden Jubilee" [of the Bureau of
Reclamation, 4th movement of "Valley of the Sun Suite"]
The following two-disc set [12", 33-1/3 rpm] was dubbed by Arizona
Recording Productions from a tape recording of the premier
performance of Grofe's "Valley of the Sun Suite" made at Phoenix on
May 2-3, 1952.
5. side A: Part 1 ["Valley Full of Ditches"]
side B: Part 2 ["The Dam Builders"]
6. side A: Part 3 ["Masque of the Yellow Moon"]
side B: Part 4 ["Golden Jubilee"]
7. "From Mountain to Valley" [sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
(12", 33-1/3 rpm; recorded at Recording Arts, Incorporated in Salt
Lake City, Utah on July 24, 1952)]
8." Grand Canyon Suite" [composed by Ferde Grofe, performed by
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
(Columbia Records Masterworks, XXSM-77127-1BA and
XXSM-77128-1BD; 12" disc, 33-1/3 rpm, n. d.; autographed by
Grofe)]
9. "World's Fair Suite" [The World's Fair Suite was composed by Grofe
to commemorate the 1964-65 New York World's Fair and was
performed on the fair's opening day, April 22, 1964, by the World's
Fair Orchestra conducted by Paul Lavelle. (RCA Victor Red Sea
Dynagroove, RRRM-3397-1S and RRRM-3398-5S; autographed by
Grofe)]
10. "Atlantic Crossing" [London Gramophone Corporation recording of
the New Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ferde Grofe; story
and libretto by Ethel Le Vane; narrated by Anton Dolin and Ethel
Le Vane, 1950 (12", 33-1/3 rpm, APL-505-6B and APL-506-7B;
inscribed by Grofe to Bill and Marguerite Williams, January 5,
1954)]
11. "Atlantic Crossing" [Everest Records recording of Ferde Grofe
conducting the New Symphony Orchestra and the George Mitchell
Choir; narrated by Anton Dolin and Ethel Le Vane, c. 1960s (12",
33-1/3 rpm, SDBR-3139A and SDBR-3139B)]
12. "Niagara Falls Suite" [recorded by the Power Authority of the State
of New York to commemorate the beginning of the Niagara Power
Project in 1961 (12", 33-1/3 rpm; M8-OP5778-1 and
M8-OP5781-1; inscribed to Bill and Marguerite Williams, January
23, 1962)—this is evidently only one of a two-disc set]
side 1: "First Power Ceremony" [February 10, 1961]
side 4: "Niagara Falls Suite" [composed by Ferde Grofe and
performed by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra on
February 10, 1961]
13. "Valley of Enchantment" [Audio House Fidelity recording
(Lawrence, KS) of Revelli's Honors Band in concert at Western
State College, Gunnison, CO, on August 22, 1958 (12" red disc,
33-1/3 rpm; V-8457/AH-558-A and V-8457/AH-558-B)]
side A: "Jubilation;" "Echo Waltz;" and "Just for Fun"
side B: Valley of Enchantment [composed by Ferde Grofe ("World
Premier Performance")]
14. "Valley of the Sun Suite" [Arizona Recording Productions, Phoenix,
AZ, c. 1950s (12", 33-1/3 rpm; ARP-249-A-Re 1 and
ARP-249-B-Re 1)]
15-16. untitled three-disc set recorded on Audiodisc recording blanks
[12", 78 or 33-1/3 rpm?]
Box 5 of 6
magnetic tape recording of Ferde Grofe's "Valley of the Sun Suit" ["for
M. Ingram;" 10.5" reel, 15 ips, May 24, 1952]
Box 6 of 6
[artifacts]
1. commemorative paperweight: "Navajo [power plant?] Dedication
Ceremonies, June 4, 1976"
2. two badges and name tags for the Reclamation Golden Jubilee, 1902
- 1952 ["Bill Williams" and "Mrs. B. Williams"]
3. two iron railroad spikes [3" and 3.5"]
4. one iron railroad spike, painted gold [6.5"]
5. medallion ["Boulder City, Nevada/Home of Hoover dam/1931 -
1978" (1.25" diameter)]
6. two pieces of iron railroad rail [1" x 1.75" and 1.5" x 1.75"]
7. lion statue [pot metal, 4.5" x 2" x 2.75" ("Las Vegas Executives Club
[of] Lions International")]
8. wood and leather bellows with a piece of cholla wood and a section
of copper power line screwed to the top [17" x 6-3/8"]
9. two horseshoes, painted gold, welded to metal stands
10. commemorative copper coin from the Arizona Bicentennial
Commission and the Arizona Mining Association, 1976, with
narrative card
11."The Bluejackets' Manual" [Annapolis, MD: United States Naval
Institute, 1946 (13th edition); with "William J. Williams" stamped
on the flyleaf]
12. "The President's Prayer" [framed, boxed; "This is the 'little prayer
of mine' offered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January
20, 1953, before beginning his Inaugural Address. This illuminated
engraving of the Prayer, framed with wood from the Inaugural
Platform, is an Achievement Award for patriotic service in the
United States Savings Bond Program."]
Folder 1 of 1
manuscript musical score, "Dawn At Lake Mead," by Ferde Grofe
["dedicated to Vi and Ben Bird;" copy, mounted, 13" x 18"]
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