Notes
MS 46
Reuben J. and Margaret "Mamie" Gard Collection
inventory
[2 boxes]
Box 1 of 2
xerox copy of scrapbook for public use
Box 2 of 2
[scrapbook (page no./item no.)]
loose item: two red tickets ["Moapa Valley High School/Overton,
Nevada: Admit One Child" (n. d.)]
loose item: pink ticket stub [" ...[Las Veg]as Race Meet/ ... bs of Las
Vegas/ .. City Park/ ... [adu]lt's ticket, 50¢/ ... exempt no.
862/ ... ember 2-3, 1939]
loose item: Christmas package tag ["Mr. & Mrs. Gard from Christina"]
loose item: Christmas package sticker [octagonal with a red poinsettia]
loose item: photograph [middle-aged woman with a briefcase standing
next to a mid-1930s automobile; "Dard Sherman" written in
the border]
loose item: two unidentified children in cowboy outfits
loose item: youngish woman in a white dress/uniform with a briefcase
standing next to a 1930s automobile; "Ella Wilson" written
in the border]
loose item: postcard ["Las Vegas Federal Building, 1934"]
loose items: two holiday telegrams [1. "Mrs. Mamie Gard ... Heaps and
loads of joy and cheer for Christmas and the whole new
year ... Merel and family;" 2. "Mrs. R. J. Gard ... May this
Easter season bring you its blessings of content and
happiness .. Merel and family"]
loose item: political campaign sticker ["80-20" (Democrat vs
Republican voting records on farm laws, 1936-1940)]
loose items: three programs (same three-day event, a different color for
each day) ["Daily Program/April 24, 1936/Las
Vegas/Horsemen's
Association/Rodeo/and/Roundup/April/24-25-26, 1936"]
1.a. decal: "Hoover Dam/Boulder Canyon Project" [hand-written
caption: "First 'stickers' of Dam"]
1.b. clipping [headline]: "Heaviest Rain Since 1930 Hits Las Vegas
Today" [Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal ?, September 23, 1935]
1.c. clipping [photo]: Hoover Dam Memorial Plaque [hand-written
caption: "May 30, 1935]
1.d. decal: "Hotel Sal Sagev/Gateway to Boulder Dam/Las Vegas's
Largest/and Finest/Climatically Conditioned/Throughout"]
1.e. decal: "Hoover Dam" [hand-written caption: "1931"]
1.f. stamp: souvenir stamp ["Boulder Dam, Nevada ... Standard
Stations, Inc."]
2.a. label: "Old Mill Cigarettes" [hand-written caption: "First Smoke,
Sioux Falls, S. D."]
2.b. Christmas package tag [hand-written name: "Colby" or "Colly"]
2.c. clipping [illustration]: Jesus Christ [hand-written caption:
"Clarmont, South Dakota"]
2.d. postcard [color]: "Monument to the memory of Henry Weston
Smith, the Pioneer Preacher who was killed by Indians Aug. 20th,
1876. Erected by Society of Black Hill Pioneers, Aug. 20, 1914"
3.a. postcard [color]: "Bird's eye view of Deadwood, Black Hills, So.
Dak."
3.b. postcard [color]: "The White Rocks, 1 mile from Deadwood, Black
Hills, So. Dak."
3.c. postcard [color]: " 'Bear Butte,' two miles distant, elevation 4085
feet, 3 miles around base, Black Hills, So. Dak."
4.a. decal: "Please Drive Carefully"]
4.b. postcard [color]: "Suspension bridge over Royal Gorge, Colorado.
The highest bridge in the world."]
5.a. postcard [color]: "Two miles around to gain 200 feet between Lead
and Deadwood, Black Hills, S. D."
5.b. postcard [black and white]: "calcite sand crystals found only in
Snake Butte, near Interior, S. D."]
5.c. postcard [color]: "Needles Eye, State Park, Black Hills, S. D."]
6.a. advertising flier: "Stuart Hamblen—King Cowboy Review—O. M.
Tablets Program" [with photo]
7.a. postcard [color]: "An old prospector on the desert near Las Vegas,
Nevada" [Oakes photo]
7.b. postcard [color]: "Clark County Court House, Las Vegas, Nevada"
[Oakes photo]
7.c. postcard [color]: "Playing a game of chance, Las Vegas, Nevada"
8.a. postcard [color]: "Death Valley Scotty in entrance of his castle
tower" [Frasher's photo]
9.a. clipping [photo]: "U. S. 16 in the Big Horn Mountains"]
9.b. decal: "Johnson County Fair/Powder River Rodeo/Buffalo,
Wyo./August 26-28, 1931"
9.c. clipping [photo]: "Going up the Big Horns"
9.d. postcard: "Buffalo Bill Museum at Cody, Wyoming"
9.e. postcard: "Buffalo Bill Memorial, Cody, Wyo."
9.f. postcard: "Devil's Tower, Wyo. ... "
9.g. receipt: "Skipton & Flynn Co. Groceries and Meats"
9.h. postcard [color]: "A drive through the Whispering Pines, Big Horn
Mountains, Wyo."
9.i. clipping [photo]: " 'South Fork Inn'—Big Horn Mountains"
10.a. postcard [color] :"Mammoth Paint Pots, Yellowstone National
Park"
10.b. postcard [color]: "Chimney Rock on Cody Road to Yellowstone
National Park"
10.c. "Permit to Operate Motor Vehicle" in Yellowstone National Park,
August 3, 1931
10.d. postcard [color]: "The Morning Glory Hot Spring, Yellowstone
National Park"
11.a. postcard [color]: "Canyon Hotel, Yellowstone National Park"
11.b. decal: "Cody Road to Yellowstone Park/Burlington [Railroad]
Route"
11.c. postcard [color]: "Mammoth Hot Springs Valley from Terraces,
Yellowstone National Park"
12.a. postcard [color]: "Keppler Cascades, Yellowstone National Park
12.b. postcard [color]: "Giant geyser, Yellowstone National Park"
12.c. business card: "West Entrance Cabin Camp ... West Yellowstone,
Mont."
12.d. postcard [color]: "Grasshopper Glacier, Yellowstone National
Park"
12.e. postcard [color]: "Great Falls of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone
National Park"
13.a. postcard [color]: "From the summit of Mt. Washburn, 10, 346 ft.,
Yellowstone Park"
13.b. postcard [color]: "Old Faithful Geyser, 150 ft., Yellowstone Park
13.c. postcard [color]: "Crater of Grotto Geyser, Yellowstone National
Park"
14.a. postcard [color]: "Trout Creek Trademark, Yellowstone Park"
14.b. business card: "Emigrant Pass Auto Camp ... Good Water - No
Mosquitoes"
14.c. postcard [color]: "Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National
Park"
15.a. postcard [color]: "Twin Falls-Jerome Bridge over Snake River ...
476 feet high—highest in the world ... "
15.b. postcard [color]: "Snake River Falls, Yellowstone Trail, Idaho
15.c. business card: "South Side Garage and Service Station"
15.d. postcard [color]: "Beautiful Twin Falls on Snake River, Idaho"
16.a. postcard [color]: "Pioneer Monument, Salt Lake City, Utah
16.b. postcard [color]: "Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah"
16.c. clipping [photo]: "Hotel Newhouse" [hand-written caption: "ate
dinner here, Aug. 5, 1931"]
16.d. postcard [color]: "Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah ... "
17.a. postcard [color]: "Temple Block, Salt Lake City, Utah"
17.b. postcard [color]: "Famous organ and choir in the Great Mormon
Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah" [hand-written caption: "here for
concert program at 11 am, Aug. 5, 1931"]
17.c. postcard [color]: "Winter scene in Temple Grounds, Salt Lake
City, Utah"
18.a. postcard [color]: "West Temple from Mt. Carmel Highway, Zion
National Park"
18.b. "Permit to Operate Motor Vehicle" in Zion and Bryce Canyon
National Parks, September 1, 193[4?]
18.c. postcard [color]: "Eastern Portal Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway
Tunnel, Zion National Park, Utah"
18.d. business card: "Vernon E. Kilgore, Real Estate ... Grants Pass,
Oregon"
18.e. postcard [color]: "Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah"
19.a. postcard [color]: " El Gobernador, 'The Great White Throne,' Zion
National Park, Utah"
19.b. postcard [color]: "Mountain of Mystery, Zion National Park"
19.c. decal: "Zion National park, 1932" [hand-written caption, "Sept. 1,
1932"]
19.d. clipping: hotels in the Zion/Bryce/Grand Canyon National Parks
area
19.e. postcard [color]: "The Watchman, Zion National Park, Utah"
19.f. souvenir balsa wood [?] comb: "Zion National Park—Bryce
Canyon National Park—Grand Canyon National Park, North
Rim—Kaibab National Forest, Reached Via Union Pacific System
20.a.-d. photographs: "Zion Park"
21a-d. photographs: "Zion Park"
22.a. photograph: "UP hy. St. George Aug. 5, 1932"
22.b. photograph: no caption [Zion National Park Mountain?]
22.c. photograph: "Zion Park"
22.d. photograph: "juniper grove"
22.e. photograph: "Zion Park" [highway tunnel]
23.a. photograph: "Zion Park"
23.b. photograph: "L. D. S. Church at Cedar City, Utah, Sept., 13,
1932"
23.c. photograph: "Court House at St. George, Utah, May 25, 1932"
24.a. postcard [black and white]: "Charleston Peak, alt. 11,910, Mt.
Charleston Park" [Las Vegas, Nevada]
24.b. postcard [black and white]: "Deer Park, Mt. Charleston Park"
24.c. business card: "Mt. Charleston Summer Resort"
24.d. postcard [black and white]: "Little Falls, Mt. Charleston Park"
24.e. postcard [black and white]: "Cathedral Rock, Mt. Charleston Park
Resort, Las Vegas, Nev."
25.a. photograph: unidentified man and woman posed outside a cabin at
Mt. Charleston Resort, c. 1932
25.b. photograph: cabin and automobile at Mt. Charleston Resort, c.
1932
25.c. photograph: "Mt. Charleston 36 miles from Las Vegas"
25.d. photograph: two unidentified men with white cats on their
shoulders at Mt. Charleston [?]
25.e. photograph: two unidentified women in pants at Mt. Charleston
[?]
26.a. photograph: three children on a desert lawn ["Charlett, Kenny,
Max"]
26.b. photograph: two children and an adult on a desert lawn ["Charlett,
Kenny, aunt"]
26.c. photograph: man posed beside an Armour meat delivery truck
[the van reads, "Armour's Fixed Flavor Star Ham and Star Bacon;"
"Merel" written in border"]
26.d. photograph: child on a lawn ["Kenny"]
27.a. postcard [black and white]: "The Trehearne Cactus
Garden—Nipton, Calif."
27.b. postcard [black and white]: "Honk Honk, Boulder Dam Next
Stop" [Oakes photo]
27.c. postcard [black and white]: "Lost City of Nevada" [Oakes photo]
28. stationery sheet: "Rex Bell/Walking Box Ranch/Searchlight, Nevada"
29.a. photograph: unidentified woman posed between two pillars,
raised inscription on the stone below her reads, "2nd Brig.: 1st
Div.: 15th Corps."
29.b. photograph: unidentified man in overalls posed in overalls on a
road with a stone retaining wall behind him
29.c. photograph: unidentified bridge over a river with a trolley car
passing over it
29.d. photograph: unidentified man and woman climbing a rock in the
Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
29.e. [same as 29.d., different rock]
30.a. clipping [photo]: "Dick"
30.b. clipping [photo]: "Dolly"
30.c. advertising card: "Radio Showhouse / the 'In Laws' " [same as
76.e.]
30.d. clipping [photo]: "Mother"
30.e. matchbook?: "Old Quaker Brand" [hand-written caption: "Boulder
Inn, Jan. 1, 1935"]
30.f. clipping [photo]: "Shafter"
30.g. clipping [photo]: "Wild Jim" [horse eating from a wash tub]
31.a. clipping [photo]: unidentified man asleep at a desk piled high with
papers [Shafter?]
31.b. clipping [photo]: unidentified man sleep on a sofa with a carpet
pulled up to is waist [Shafter?]
31.c. matchbook: "Apache Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada"
31.d. clipping [photo]: "Wm. Rogers [Will Rogers], killed in air crash
with Post at Point Barrow, Alaska, August 15, 1935"
31.e. clipping [photo]: unidentified man posed in a 1900s-1910s
automobile, building in background with a sign which reads,
"Pinkham by the Sea/Mud Baths/Gen. Shafter Parker, Prop."
31.f. matchbook: "At Boulder Dam Nevada's Finest Cafe / The Green
Hut / Service and Courtesy / Boulder City, Nevada"
31.g. clipping [photo]: "Glen Hardy"
32.a. clipping [photo]: "New Union Pacific Train Here Tomorrow" [the
"Train of Tomorrow"]
32.b. clipping: "Numerous possibilities for events of great moment were
discussed at the meeting last evening ... " [re: events to be held on
the shores of the rising Lake Mead]
32.c. clipping [photo]: "Remember Her? She was 'It' Girl" [Clara Bow
and son, Toni, at Palm Springs]
32.d. label: "Old Mill Cigarettes" [hand-written caption: "Rex & Clara
[Bell and Bow] , Xmas 1938"]
32.e. clipping [political advertisement]: "Your Support Will Be
Appreciated / George 'Rex Bell' Beldam / for / County
Commissioner ... "
33.a. photograph: "Ragtown, Cagle's first home—our next door
neighbor" [1931]
33.b. scrip: Six Companies paper scrip in the value of 5¢ [1931-32]
33.c. check stub: Six Companies, Inc. [hand-written caption: "Dec. 25,
1931"]
33.d. photograph: Bureau of Reclamation ranger posed next to the rules
and regulations bill board at the entrance to the Boulder Canyon
Project Federal Reservation—possibly Claude Williams
[hand-written caption: "Our ranger—took care of 400 women
while husbands was on strike"]
33.e. photograph: Reuben and Mamie Gard [?] posed at Ragtown tent
house with automobile, 1931 [hand-written caption: "Rag Town,
Our first Nevada home"]
33.f. clipping [headline of column]: "Will Roger Says" [May 2, 1935]
34.a. photograph: "View from Rag Town 1931. Now covered with
water except peaks—called Rattlesnake Island"
34.b. photograph: "Tunnel No. 2, Nevada" [Black Canyon diversion
tunnel]
34.c. photograph: "Government high line" [cable way]
34.d. clipping: "One-Day Mark Falls Sunday as 3,709 View River
Project" [n. d.]
34.e. photograph: "Sub-station, Labor Day 1931" [electrical switchyard
north of Black Canyon]
34.f. photograph: "Tunnel No. 1, Nevada" [diversion tunnel]
35.a. photograph: Black Canyon [hand-written caption: "Before the
dam started"]
35.b. photograph: "Looking upstream from the water plant, Tunnel No.
3"
35.c. clipping [poem]: " 'Boulder Dam,' by Miss Ruth Lee of Los
Angeles"
35.d. photograph: "Tunnel No[s]. 3 and 4" [Arizona side diversion
tunnels]
35.e. photograph: "The water plant looking downstream" [the Boulder
City water plant in Black Canyon]
35.f. photograph: "The 'Cat Walk," lower portal" [foot bridge across
Black Canyon]
36.a. scrip: Six Companies paper scrip in the value of 5¢ [c. 1931-32]
36.b. postcard [color tinted]: "Concrete crane, Hoover Dam" [c. 1932]
36.c. postcard [color tinted]: "Nite Scene, Hoover Dam" [c. 1932]
36.d. postcard [black and white]: "Looking upstream through Black
Canyon—Boulder Dam" [c. 1933; Bureau of Reclamation
photo/Frasher's Fotos]
36.e. postcard [color tinted]: "In [diversion] Tunnel No. 3, Hoover
Dam" [c. 1932 (hand-written caption: "Reuben [Gard] in tunnel,"
with small arrow pointing to one of the men at work in the invert)]
37.a. photograph: "Dinky and agitator" [gasoline-powered dinky train
engine hauling a concrete agitator from the high mix concrete plant
in Black Canyon]
37.b. photograph: "The Line Up" [worker transportation trucks in line
at Boulder City]
37.c. photograph: " 'Big Berthas,' Largest transport in the world, holds
170 men"
38.a. photograph: "Boulder Lake when it first began to fill up" [view at
the entrance to Black Canyon with a river ferry moored at the
Nevada shore of the Colorado River]
38.b. photograph: "High Mix" [concrete plant]
38.c. stamp: souvenir stamp ["Boulder Dam, Nevada Standard
Stations, Inc."]
38.d. stamp: Hoover Dam dedication commemorative postage stamp
38.e. photograph: "Reuben [Gard] at the gravel pile" [posed at the
gravel plant in Hemenway Wash]
38.f. photograph: "Boulder Lake two weeks later" [with power boat]
39.a. decal: "Boulder Dam"
39.b. decal: "Boulder Dam / Colorado River / Boulder City Drug, Ltd."
39.c. clipping [Camel cigarette ad with a man posed on the Arizona rim
of Black Canyon, Hoover dam under construction beyond,
hand-written caption]: "Irvin Jones—one of the engineers of
Boulder Dam"
39.d. stamp: souvenir stamp ["Boulder Dam, Nevada Standard Stations,
Inc."]
39.e. postcard [black and white]: "President Roosevelt dedicating
Boulder Dam, Sept. 30, 1935" [Oakes photo]
40.a. postcard [black and white; "little"]: "Boulder City, Nevada"
40.b. postcard [black and white; "little"]: "Lowering 180-ton section of
penstock pipe, Boulder Dam"
40.c. postcard [black and white; "little"]: "Transporting men by
cableway, Boulder Dam"
40.d. postcard [black and white; "little"]: "High scaling during early
construction at Boulder Dam"
40.e. postcard [black and white; "little"]: "Arizona spillway and bridge,
Boulder Dam"
40.f. postcard [black and white; "little"]: "Night scene, Las Vegas,
Nevada"
41.a. calling card: "M[amie]. J. Gard" [hand-written]
41.b. postcard [color; linen]: "Boulder Dam, Colorado River Project"
41.c. postcard [color; linen]: "Upstream side of Boulder Dam from
Boulder Dam Lake"
41.d. postcard [black and white; "little"]: "Transmission tower on
Boulder Dam-Los Angeles power line"
41.e. calling card: "R[euben] J. Gard" [hand-written]
41.f. postcard [color; linen]: "Boating on Boulder Dam Lake" [Grand
Canyon-Boulder Dam Tours, Inc. tour boat Paiute]
42.a. clipping [photo]: "Roosevelt Dedicates Boulder Dam"
42.b. decal: "Boulder Dam, 1936]
42.c. clipping [poem]: "Member or Kicker?"
43.a. postcard [black and white]: "30' diameter steel penstock pipe ... "
[Frasher's Fotos]
43..b. photograph: Babcock & Wilcox Company penstock fabricating
plant north of Hoover Dam [hand-written caption: "B. W. yard"]
43.c. postcard [black and white; "little"]: "Babcock & Wilcox Steel Co.,
Boulder Dam"
43.d. photograph: Babcock & Wilcox penstock fabricating plant north
of Hoover Dam [with a clipping pasted over the picture reading,
"The Babcock & Wilcox Co., Boulder City, Nevada" and
hand-written caption: "May 25, 1934"]
43.e. postcard [black and white; "Little"]: "Section of 30-foot penstock
pipe on 200-ton trailer, Boulder Dam"
43.f. photograph: Mamie Gard [?] posed in front of penstock pipe
sections at the Babcock & Wilcox Company fabricating yard, 1934
[hand-written caption: "30-foot pipe"]
44.a. photograph: "Rowdy [the dog] getting his picture made"
[evidently at the Gard home in the Las Vegas desert]
44.b. photograph: " 'Vegas Heights," our ranch home"
44.c. photograph: wooden foot bridge over a pond [Las Vegas]
44.d. photograph: Grand Canyon?
44.e. photograph: stucco duplex in Las Vegas?
44.f. photograph: building made of natural rock with a radio tower on
top [Las Vegas?]
44.g. photograph: "Our artesian well" [Reuben Gard and Rowdy the
dog posed by a stand pipe with water running from it]
44.h. photograph: "Spring [season] at our ranch house" [Mamie Gard
posed at her Vegas Heights home with trees and flowers in bloom]
45.a. photograph: "View from R. R. Pass" [view west from Railroad
Pass to the McCullough Range]
45.b. photograph: "Taming 'Nevada' " [two unidentified children at the
Railroad Pass auto camp with a burro]
45.c. photograph: R. R. Pass, 1931" [Mamie Gard posed beside an
unusual rock formation]
45.d. photograph: "Back of the casino" [Reuben Gard (?) posed among
rocks behind Railroad Pass Casino]
45.e. photograph: "riding old 'Nevada' and holding my breath" [Mamie
Gard riding the burro named Nevada in front of the office building
of the Railroad Pass auto camp]
45.f. photograph: "Our home at Railroad Pass" [Railroad Pass auto
camp with one of the frame cabins noted with a check mark]
46.a. clipping: "Wall Street Mine [in Eldorado Canyon, Nevada] Has
$34,000 Ore" [n. d.]
46.b. photograph: "Eagles Nest, Eldorado Canyon"
46.c. clipping [photo]: "Ed C. Muth, the efficient correspondent of
Lodge No. 241, Richland Center, Wis., and 6 grandchildren ... "]
46.d. photograph: "Boulder Home [19]34 & 35" [Olympic house? with
vines and car]
46.e. photograph: same as 46.d., different angle
47.a. photograph: "Joshua Tree" [somewhere in the southern Nevada
desert]
47.b. photograph: "Dry Lake" [photo of the old road to Searchlight
from Las Vegas, through the McCullough Mountains and across
the Eldorado Valley dry lake]
47.c. clipping [advertisement]: "Vernon E. Kilgore, Real Estate, Grants
Pass, Oregon"]
47.d. clipping [advertisement]: "After 5 days return to Wilson Brothers
[logo] Realtors and Insurors, Santa Cruz, California"
47.e. photograph: "R. R. Pass night club" [rear view of Railroad Pass
Casino]
47.f. clipping [advertisement]: "See Charles A. Wing Agency, Inc. to
buy your home, Medford, Oregon"
47.g. photograph: "Dry Lake" [photo of the old road to Searchlight
from Las Vegas, through the McCullough Mountains and across
the Eldorado Valley dry lake]
47.h. photograph: "The Three Buttes on the Needles-Searchlight Hy."
[rock formation in the McCullough Mountains pass on the old
road which ran from Las Vegas, through the McCullough
Mountains, and across the Eldorado Valley dry lake]
48.a. business card: "El Portal Electric Company, El Portal Theatre
Bldg., Las Vegas, Nevada"
48.b. postcard [black and white]: "Restored Homes, Lost City of
Nevada" [Oakes photo]
48.c. postcard: "Sao Paolo [Brazil], Instituto Butantan" [hand-written
caption in border: "picture of the world [indecipherable] snake
farm"]
48.d. clipping [from a business card]: "Massachusetts Bonding and
Insurance Company ... Los Angeles, California"
49.a. business card: "Barstow Oasis" [auto camp, 1931]
49.b. postcard [color]: pine tree on the sea coast [probably Monterey,
California (postmarked Boulder City, Nevada, July 21, 1935)
49.c. postcard [color]: "The Painted Desert, Arizona"
49.d. business card: "Scribner's Madera [California] Auto Park" [1931]
49.e. business card: "Roseville [California] Coffee Shop" [c. 1931]
49.f. postcard [color]: "Heavy Sea Along the Cliffs at Santa Cruz,
California"
49.g. postcard [black and white]: "The New Masonic Temple and
Theatre Building, Needles, California"
49.h. business card: "Andy's Auto Wrecking" [Madera, California]
50.a. clipping: "Declaration of Independence" [small color scene with
narrative]
50.b. envelope: addressed to Mr. Reuben Gard, Boulder City, Nev
[with Hoover Dam dedication commemorative stamp, postmarked
October 2, 1935]
50.c. clipping: "Christopher Columbus" [small color portrait with
narrative]
50.d. card: reminder to attend church services [signed "Bereans," and
postmarked Boulder City, Nevada, February 3, 1934]
50.e. clipping: "U. S. Capitol" [small color scene with narrative]
50.f. envelope: addressed to Mrs. Mamie Gard, Boulder City, Nev
[with Hoover Dam dedication commemorative stamp, postmarked
September 30, 1935 (dedication day)]
50.g. clipping: "France" [small color illustration of the French flag with
narrative]
50.h. stamp: canceled postage stamp of 1935 Michigan centenary
50.i. clipping: " 'Puffing Billy' " [small color illustration and narrative of
the first English locomotive built in 1813]
50.j. sticker: "NRA Member"
51.a. photograph: Reuben and Mamie Gard and friends on a desert
picnic, January 3, 1933
51.b. envelope: addressed to R. J. Gard, Boulder City, Nev [with a
Hoover Dam dedication commemorative stamp, postmarked
September 30, 1935 (dedication day)]
51.c. clipping [column]: "Punts, Pokes, Put Outs" [birth announcement
of Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal editor Al Cahlan's daughter,
Virginia Frances (c. 1934-35)]
51.d. clipping [Christmas holiday telegram?]: "Best Wish 1935"
51.e. envelope: addressed to Mamie Gard, Boulder City, Nev. [with a
Hoover Dam dedication commemorative stamp, postmarked
September 30, 1935 (dedication day)]
51.f. similar to 51.a.
52.a. clipping [advertisement]: "Dine-Dance and Romance at the
Meadows Cocoanut Grove" [Las Vegas nightclub]
52.b. matchbook: "Vegas Sweet Shoppe"
52.c. clipping [advertisement]: "All visiting Shriners attention: dinner
dance at Pair O' Dice [nightclub], Saturday evening, November 2
... "
52.d. stamp: canceled postage stamp of 1935 California Pacific
International Exposition at San Diego
52.e. clipping [headline]: "10,000 Attend Regatta Races at Boulder
Lake" [April 5, 1936 (also see 52.g.)]
52.f. clipping [advertisement]: "Red Rooster Nite Club"
52.g. clipping: story which accompanies 52.e.
53.a. clipping [photo]: "And the Camels Got Up to Go Places"
[Shriners' ceremony at Yermo, California]
54.a. clipping: "Temperatures Range Down to 38 Below Zero Thruout
Sector" [datelined Chicago, Illinois, February 15, 1936]
54.b. side panel cut from a Christmas carton of Kool cigarettes,
inscribed "To: Reuben Gard, From: Mamie"
54.c. clipping: "Apricot Trees Now Blooming in Las Vegas' [February
15, 1936]
54.d. clipping [photo]: "First 1[9]36 Baby"
54.a-b. clippings: "Las Vegas vs Fallon" and "Butcher Memorial Field ...
" [hand-written caption: "Went to the game at 1, Wild Cats won
14-0, November 28, 1935;" another caption on the page reads,
"Nov. 28, 1935: had dinner at the White Spot Cafe at 5 o'clock,
then went to the Tower to the dance"]
54.c. card [Christmas]: "At this season ... "]
54.d. clipping [advertisement headline]: "Robert Bow's Restaurant"
[Robert "King" Bow was Clara Bow's father; hand-written
caption: "Ate our first dinner here in 1931"]
54.e. holiday telegram: "Mrs. Mamie Gard: Love and best wishes for a
merry Christmas, M. Cosgrove" [December 25, 1935, 5:43 am;
written on the envelope: "from the children, 1935"]
[also written on page 54: "Dec. 25, 1935: Xmas dinner at Red Rooster
Nite Club at 6 o'clock then went to show;" and "Jan 1, 1936: dinner at
5 at the Silver night club"]
56.a. calling card: "Dorothy Goss Borgna (?)" [hand-written]
56.b. Christmas package sticker [small red Santa Clause]
56.c. valentine card: "To Mother from All of Us" [1936]
57.a. clipping [photo]: "Before the Dam Started"
57.b. clipping: "Mileage to Scenic Points Near Vegas"
57.c. clipping [photo]: "Pour First Concrete for Boulder Dam Base"
57.d. clipping: "George Witherspoon of Fort Worth, Texas, was slightly
injured yesterday in a bull dogging contest ... " [Las Vegas rodeo,
April 24-26, 1936? (see loose items for programs)]
57.e. clipping [headline]: "Second Annual Affair is Said Big Success by
Show Officials: 5,561 Persons Attend the Rodeo During the Three
Days" [April 24-26, 1936? (see loose items for programs)]
57.f. clipping [photo]: Arizona needle valves in operation at Hoover
Dam [1936]
58.a. clipping [advertisement]: "Rose's Liquor Store" [Las Vegas]
58.b. clipping [photo]: "A Pair of Aces" [second annual Helldorado,
1936?]
58.c. clipping: "Second Annual Helldorado and Rodeo, Las Vegas,
Nevada, April 23-24-25-26 [1936?]"
58.d. clipping: "Kid Stewart, riding Wigan ... "]
58.e. coupon/ticket
58.f. clipping [illustration]: "The Popular Mode of Transportation in
Nevada in 1864" [burro]
58.g. clipping [Helldorado advertisement]: "Bob's Bakery, next to
Safeway"
59. clipping [photo]: "Boulder Dam's Niagara" [Arizona needle valves
in operation, 1936]
60.a. clipping [photo and poem]: "Mine Owner" [James Cashman
photo by Oakes] and "The Days of '49"
60.b. clipping [photo]: "Waiting for the Gun in the Regatta" [Lake
Mead boat races, c. 1936]
60.c. clipping [unidentified Helldorado advertisement]: "Listen you
Waddies!"
61.a. clipping [Helldorado advertisement]: "Woitishek Lumber
Company" [1936]
61.b. clipping... [truncated due to length]
