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Las Vegas Public Library Open House: photographic print

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Date

1955

Description

From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248). Las Vegas Public Library third anniversary open house. Reba McKinster, Librarian (second from left); Lillian Fleury (third from left); Beda Cornwall (third from right) and Mrs. Ernest King (second from right). On the sign, "The founding of a Library is one of the greatest things we can do... Everyone able to read a good book becomes a wiser man... A collection of good books contains all the nobleness & wisdom of the world before us. A collection of books is the best of all universities... Thomas Carlyle". Stamped on the back of the photograph, "City of Las Vegas Department of Recreation".

Digital ID

pho031920

Physical Identifier

0248_0044
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    Citation

    pho031920. Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection, 1940s-1978. PH-00248. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d17m04c38

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    Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

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