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Map of downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1952-1955

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Date

1952 to 1955

Description

Title in upper left and right margins: Las Vegas, Nevada. Identifies business tenants in the downtown area and includes property valuations, measurements, addresses, etc. Cadastral map. Oriented with north to the lower right.Text, illustrations, aerial photos, and ancillary map of the Las Vegas Strip on verso. Cataloger has determined date of map to be between 1952 and 1955 because the Sahara and the Sands Casinos are shown on the verso of the map, and they both opened in 1952, but the Riviera and the Dunes opened in 1955, and they are not shown on the map. Also, the Hotel Last Frontier is shown on the verso of the map, and its name was changed to New Frontier in 1955. Note: Many of the property names and addresses are erroneous when compared to Las Vegas business directories from the same period.

Digital ID

map000419

Physical Identifier

G4354.L3G46 1952 .N57
Details

Alternative Title

Business section, city of Las Vegas, Nevada ; Las Vegas, Nevada;

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Rights

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Digital Provenance

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

Date Digitized

2014-07-02

Extent

11061 x 7160 pixels
36.87 x 23.867 inches
237,613,056 bytes

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

Format

image/tiff