Name/Title
Robert and Serene Ziemer PapersEntry/Object ID
MS.47Scope and Content
Robert and Serene Ziemer Papers
MS 47
Robert and Serene Ziemer Papers
Born in Kingman, Arizona on March 11, 1896, R. K. Ziemer came to Las Vegas in the 1920s where he was hired in 1928 as Las Vegas's first uniformed policeman as well as its first motorcycle traffic officer. Ziemer married native southern Nevadan Serene Abbott of Bunkerville on March 15, 1930 and the two moved to Boulder City in 1931 where Robert was hired as a Bureau of Reclamation ranger. Serene Ziemer sang at the dedication of Hoover Dam on September 30, 1935 and in 1937 she and her husband left Boulder City for Pasadena, California. The two retired to Boulder City in 1978.
* * *Collection
ManuscriptsAcquisition
Accession
999.031Source or Donor
Fenton, Virginia "Teddy"Acquisition Method
GiftNotes
999.031Archive Items Details
Notes
MS 47
Robert and Serene Ziemer Papers
inventory
[1 box]
Box 1 of 1 ff no.
1. business card: South Side Auto Court [Las Vegas, n. d. (c. 1930s)] 1
2. campaign card: "Vote for R. K. 'Bob' Ziemer ... for Sheriff" [Las
Vegas, n. d. (c. 1930s)] 2
3. calling card [c. 1920s-30s] 3
4. envelope: "Official Business" [U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, c.
1931-36] 4
5. first day cover of the Hoover Dam dedication stamp
[September 30, 1935] 5
6. Hoover Dam construction: drilling foreman's report [with worker
location diagram] 6
7. leave slips [1932 (Sims Ely signature)] 7
8. membership cards: Elks Club [1930-33] 8
9. membership cards: Kerak Temple [1935] 9
10. membership cards: Masons [1938] 10
11. membership cards: Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW (1934)] 11
12. news clippings 12
13. real estate license and card [1930] 13
14. souvenir program: First Annual Police Ball [Boulder City,
Nevada (October 1, 1932)] 14
* * *Location
Location
* Untyped Location
Basement ArchivesDate
March 10, 2025Relationships
Related Entries
Notes
biography file [Ziemer, Robert "Bob" and Serene Abbott]
photograph collection no. 0083 [Robert and Serene Ziemer Collection]Created By
admin@catalogit.appCreate Date
September 22, 2002Updated By
bcmha.archives@gmail.comUpdate Date
September 3, 2025