CIRCA 1953 Brochure BULLHEAD CITY Davis Dam ARIZONA Laughlin MOHAVE COUNTY

Description

CIRCA 1953 Brochure BULLHEAD CITY Davis Dam ARIZONA Laughlin
MOHAVE COUNTY
DESCRIPTION:
CIRCA 1953
brochure
BULLHEAD CITY
,
Davis Dam, Arizona [Laughlin] Mohave County; single sheet folded twice into six panels measuring 9 inches by 4 inches folded; the brochure has a fishing sketch done by artist
Cliff Segerblom
[see biography below]
DATE:
Probably printed soon after the completion of Davis Dam [Bullhead Dam] in 1953 as the text refers to one of Arizona’s newest cities.
CONDITION:
Very good [see scans].
SECURITY:
ARGUS BOOKS
[or other wording] in
PINK
may have been super-imposed over the images for security and are not on the actual item.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:
Cliff Segerblom
: In 1938, he accepted a position with the Bureau of Reclamation and became the first official photographer of the Boulder Canyon Project. His pictures were featured in Life, Time, National Geographic, and one of his photographs is in the Museum of Modern Art collection in New York. Segerblom excelled in watercolor, and his studies of Nevada towns and terrain were often shown in exhibitions across the state. He was a recipient of a Nevada Governor's Art Award in 1984. Segerblom died in 1990. [His signature on the fishing sketch in the brochure bears his trademark of the last letter on his name
“M” being represented by 3 vertical lines
not closed at the top]
HISTORY:
Hardyville:
In March 1864 the current site of Bullhead City was the location of a settlement called Hardyville. It was named for early resident and politician, William Harrison Hardy.
Hardyville received a boost in 1867, when it became the county seat of Mohave County and the mills at Eldorado Canyon began operating stimulating trade up river again.
However, in 1873, the county seat was moved to the mining boomtown of Cerbat. In 1877, the Southern Pacific Railroad arrived at Yuma. It bought out Johnson's Colorado Steam Navigation Company, and by 1878 had built rails into Maricopaville resulting in wagon traffic moving to that railhead that was closer to the mines in the northern interior than Hardyville.
Bullhead City:
Decades later, Hardyville would be resurrected as Bullhead City with the construction of Davis Dam between 1942 and 1953. The dam was originally called Bullhead Dam after "Bull's Head Rock", a well-known rock formation along the Colorado River.
Bullhead City became the headquarters for the construction project, which was completed in 1953. Thus the name Bullhead City was born. As the nearby Lake Mohave developed into a major tourism destination, and as the casino and resort town of Laughlin, Nevada sprouted up across the river, Bullhead City grew rapidly.
In 1970, Bullhead City was the name of the six blocks that ran north-south along Highway 95 across the river from Don Laughlin's casino. About a thousand people lived in the original Bullhead City at that time, with about 3,000 people in Riviera. In 1984, the small communities of Bullhead City, Riviera, and Holiday Shores voted to incorporate, choosing the name "Bullhead City" for its historical significance.
Bullhead City and the neighboring town of Laughlin, Nevada, have grown in popularity as tourist destinations, and so has the population.
SHIPPING:
All paper items [broadsides, labels, pamphlets, brochures, photos, etc.] that are 1/4 of an inch thick or less are shipped between two double-walled pieces of cardboard [equal to 4 sheets of cardboard and are virtually impossible to bend] by USPS Media mail and at actual cost [unless other arrangements have been made with seller]. [KX – B2 – S1]