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Interior of Snick's Place bar and the pink elephant painting prior to being donated to the Nevada State Museum: digital image

Information

Creator

Photographer (pht): McBride, Dennis

Date

2014-12-07

Description

From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Notes from the donor, Dennis McBride: Snick's Place was a queer bar which stood at 1402 South Third Street [1976-2014] whose mascots were two pink elephants, celebrated in a painting which hung in the bar from 1992 until it was remodeled and renamed the Bastille in 2014. Bar owner Dominick Vitale donated the elephant painting to the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas. This series of photos documents removing the painting from the bar for delivery to the Nevada State Museum.

Digital ID

pho036592

Physical Identifier

0263_4661

Permalink

http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1db8158k
Details

Time Period

2010s (2010 - 2019)

Resource Type

Image

Material Type

photographs
digital photographs

Source

Interior of Snick's Place bar and the pink elephant painting prior to being donated to the Nevada State Museum: digital image, 2014 December 07

Archival Collection

Dennis McBride Photograph Collection

Citation

pho036592. Dennis McBride Photograph Collection, approximately 1904-2018. PH-00263. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1db8158k

Rights

This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. Dennis McBride transferred all right, title and interest he had in the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) to UNLV. However, some material may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.

Standardized Rights Statement

In Copyright

Digital Provenance

Original archival records created digitally

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

Format

image/jpeg