Thomas O'Driscoll Papers
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MS.107 - Box 1 of 1; ff 5/5: correspondence [1931-33]
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Thomas O'Driscoll PapersEntry/Object ID
MS.107Scope and Content
Thomas O'Driscoll Papers MS 107 Thomas O’Driscoll Papers Thomas O’Driscoll [1878 - 1937] was an Irish emigrant who came to Nevada in 1899 as a prospector and miner. He worked throughout the state, from Jarbidge in the north, to Searchlight in the south, and at several mines in nearby California. He was in Tybo, Nevada when the stock market crashed in October 1929, and by 1931 had drifted into Las Vegas looking for work on the Boulder Canyon Project. MS 107 includes nineteen letters he wrote from Boulder City and Las Vegas between 1931 and 1933 describing his work on Hoover Dam, the conditions he faced, and other details that provide a vivid glimpse of the life of an ordinary working stiff during the darkest days of the Great Depression. His lungs weakened by years of working in mines, O’Driscoll left southern Nevada in 1933 for Alaska. He died there in 1937 while working at the Bonanza Mine in Kennecott. * * *Collection
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