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Photograph of people standing on stairs of Lincoln County High School, Panaca (Nev.), 1912
Date
1912
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of people standing on stairs of Lincoln County High School, Panaca (Nev.), 1912
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Panoramic view of railroad survey camp, 1903
Date
1903
Archival Collection
Description
Panoramic view of railroad survey camp, 1903
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Photograph of the Searchlight riverboat on the Colorado River, 1903
Date
1903
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of the Searchlight riverboat on the Colorado River, 1903
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Photograph of North Las Vegas Mayor Bud Cleland and outgoing Councilman Theron Goynes, June 13, 1973
Date
1973-06-13
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white photograph of North Las Vegas Mayor Bud Cleland presenting a plaque to outgoing North Las Vegas Councilman Theron H. Goynes.
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Photograph of J. T. (John Thomas) McWilliams, Las Vegas, circa 1930s
Date
unspecified year in 193X
Archival Collection
Description
Mr. J. T. (John Thomas) McWilliams in front of home on Westside Las Vegas.
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Audio clip from interview with Jocelyn Oats conducted by John Grygo and Claytee D. White, November 20, 2012
Date
2012-11-30
Archival Collection
Description
Audio clip from interview with Jocelyn Oats on November 20, 2012. In the clip, Jocelyn talks about the beginnings of Nevada Partners, and her work with the teenaged youth of Las Vegas in the 1990s.
Sound
Slide of the Truckee River canyon near Reno, Nevada, circa 1970s
Date
1970 to 1979
Archival Collection
Description
A view of the Truckee River canyon near Reno, Nevada.
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Slide of Lake Tahhoe, May, 1966
Date
1966-05
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Lake Tahoe and Emerald Bay, May 1966. Emerald Bay is located on the California side of Lake Tahoe.
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Slide of pelicans at Pyramid Lake, Nevada, circa 1970s
Date
1970 to 1979
Archival Collection
Description
A flock of pelicans at Pyramid Lake, Nevada. Some birds are wading near a sand bar, while others are airborne. Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the Truckee River Basin, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Reno. Pyramid Lake is fed by the Truckee River, which is mostly the outflow from Lake Tahoe. The Truckee River enters Pyramid Lake at its southern end. Pyramid Lake has no outlet, with water leaving only by evaporation, or sub-surface seepage (an endorheic lake). The lake has about 10% of the area of the Great Salt Lake, but it has about 25% more volume. The salinity is approximately 1/6 that of sea water. Although clear Lake Tahoe forms the headwaters that drain to Pyramid Lake, the Truckee River delivers more turbid waters to Pyramid Lake after traversing the steep Sierra terrain and collecting moderately high silt-loaded surface runoff. Pyramid Lake is the site of some of the Earth's most spectacular tufa deposits. Tufa is a rock composed of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) that forms at the mouth of a spring, from lake water, or from a mixture of spring and lake water. The explorer John C. Fremont (1845) wrote about the tufas during his 1843-44 expedition and named the lake after the pyramidal-shaped island that lies along the east shore of the lake. The Paiute name for the island is Wono, meaning cone-shaped basket. The Paiute name for the lake is Cui-Ui Panunadu, meaning fish in standing water.
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Slide of a tufa deposit in Pyramid Lake, Nevada, circa 1970s
Date
1970 to 1979
Archival Collection
Description
The pyramid-shaped island tufa that lies along the east shore of the lake and is the reason the lake was named Pyramid Lake. Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the Truckee River Basin, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Reno. Pyramid Lake is fed by the Truckee River, which is mostly the outflow from Lake Tahoe. The Truckee River enters Pyramid Lake at its southern end. Pyramid Lake has no outlet, with water leaving only by evaporation, or sub-surface seepage (an endorheic lake). The lake has about 10% of the area of the Great Salt Lake, but it has about 25% more volume. The salinity is approximately 1/6 that of sea water. Although clear Lake Tahoe forms the headwaters that drain to Pyramid Lake, the Truckee River delivers more turbid waters to Pyramid Lake after traversing the steep Sierra terrain and collecting moderately high silt-loaded surface runoff. Pyramid Lake is the site of some of the Earth's most spectacular tufa deposits. Tufa is a rock composed of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) that forms at the mouth of a spring, from lake water, or from a mixture of spring and lake water. The explorer John C. Fremont (1845) wrote about the tufas during his 1843-44 expedition and named the lake after the pyramidal-shaped island that lies along the east shore of the lake. The Paiute name for the island is Wono, meaning cone-shaped basket. The Paiute name for the lake is Cui-Ui Panunadu, meaning fish in standing water.
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