Description
MS 185
Anna Roberts Parks Collection
The federal government required Boulder City to have a mortuary, a need met by Anna . Roberts Parks, Nevada’s first female mortician. She and her husband had founded Palm Mortuary in Las Vegas In 1926, and later opened Parks Mortuary and Ambulance Service in Boulder City, managed by H.C. Garrison. Anna was also a savvy business woman and collector, whose collection became the foundation of the Clark County Museum.
The funeral records, covering June 11, 1932 to December 24, 1937, include 164 detailed entries with personal and service-related information. It also includes death certificates and correspondence.
This collection also features a 1933 book on Hoover Dam Contracts, a hard hat used during the dam’s construction, and additional documents donated by Myron Welsh to support future research.
[2 boxes]
Box 1 of 2
item:
1. Funeral Record Book of Parks Mortuary and Ambulance Service entries dating
from June 11, 1932 to December 24, 1937 (164 entries). Black cloth bound.
(9.5x14.73x2.5in.)
[acc.no.017.001]
Box 2 of 2
items:
1. Book: Boulder Dam: Zane Grey; hard back with book jacket.
Gosset & Dunlap Publishers 1964. (7.75x5.25x1.0in.)
[acc.no.017.001.2]
2. Book: The Hoover Dam Contracts by Ray Lyman Wilbur and Northcutt Ely.
US Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.; 1933, 674 pages
Stamped E.A. Moritz, Director of Power (6.0x9.25x1.5in.)
[acc.no.017.001.3]
3. Pamphlet: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Visits Boulder Dam; US Government printing
office, 1935, 10 pages
[acc.no.017.001.4]
4. Commemorative coin, gold (1.25 in. diameter). Face of coin reads: “Hoover Dam
across the top and Las Vegas at the bottom.”
[acc.no.017.001.5]
5. Concrete core reported to be from Hoover Dam. Gray in color approximately 14 in.
long and 5 in. in diameter. *Currently in permanent museum display.
[acc.no.017.001.6]
6. Hard hat with bracket for light, M.S.A. Ski guard, type K Mine Safety Appliance Co. ,
Pittsburg, PA, Made in the U.S.A.
[acc.no.017.001.7]
