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Boulder City Library Oral History ProjectEntry/Object ID
MS.99Scope and Content
Boulder City Library Oral History Project
MS 99
Boulder City Library Oral History Project
In 1985 the Boulder City Library, under the direction of Carroll Gardner, was awarded a grant to videotape twenty oral histories with Boulder City pioneers recounting their experiences building Hoover Dam and Boulder City. James Maxon, a Bureau of Reclamation historian, was the original director of the project, but dropped out soon after work began. Gardner then hired Boulder City historian Dennis McBride. From 1985 through September 1987, McBride recorded interviews and then edited the interviews together into a five-hour documentary called "Hoover Dam and Boulder City: The Pioneer Experience." The technical work was performed at BCTV by Ron Cornell and several volunteers. A series of articles drawn from the interviews was published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s "Nevadan" Sunday supplement. The interviews were transcribed and copies deposited in both the Boulder City Library and the Special Collections Department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. These and other interviews eventually made their way into the publication, "Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression," by Andy Dunar and Dennis McBride [New York, NY: Twayne Publishers, 1993; Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 2000 (reprint)].
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boulder city, boulder city [history], hoover dam [construction], boulder city library, boulder damArchive Details
Archive Notes
Date(s) Created: 1975 - 1987
Early Create Date: 1975
Date(s): 1975 - 1987Archive Items Details
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MS 99
Boulder City Library Oral History Project
inventory
[1 box]
Box 1 of 1 ff no.
1. correspondence: letters received [1975-1987] 1
2. correspondence: letters sent [1985-1987] 2
3. correspondence: re: Nevada newspapers, 1929-1934 3
4. event: "Harnessing the Colorado: The Building & Significance of
Hoover Dam" 4
5. financial records: receipts [1985-1987] 5
6. forms [blank] 6
7. grant: application 7
8. grant: procedures 8
9. grant: re-grant 9
10. guidelines: fiscal 10
11. guidelines: project directors 11
12. interviewees: biographies and agreements 12
13. interviewees: contract information 13
14. interviewees: notes 14
15. notes 15
16. reports [1985-1987] 16
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Dennis McBridePerson or Organization
Gardner, CarrollPerson or Organization
Maxon, JamesCreated By
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