Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 121 - 130 of 13886

Postcard of Las Vegas High School, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date

1910 to 1949

Description

An artist's rendering of Las Vegas High School's exterior. Printed on the back of the postcard: "An accredited high school, recently completed at a cost of $250,000.00. This is part of a school system of excellent buildings that accommodate more than 1,200 pupils."

Image

Slide of Las Vegas, 1913

Date

1913

Description

Black and image image of Las Vegas. A train is visible in the foreground.

Image

Photograph of two men with dogs on the porch at Las Vegas Ranch, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Site Name: Las Vegas Ranch (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Image

Photograph of a bath house in a tent near the Las Vegas, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Archival Collection

Description

Date of photograph estimated between 1904-1905. View of a bath house inside a tent on Las Vegas Creek in Las Vegas Ranch. "...water diverted from Las Vegas Creek ran through the sawed board in the foreground and into a wooden tub sunk in the ground. A plank is provided to step on while drying off, and thick matting covers the bare earth. Canvas curtains provided privacy" (p. [88], "Las Vegas, as it began--and grew" by Stanley W. Paher).

Image

Photograph of J. D. Kramer Baths and Las Vegas Hotel, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1929

Description

The J. D. Kramer Baths and Las Vegas Hotel on Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Image

Las Vegas Paiute Colony land deed

Date

1911-12-30

Description

Land deed from Helen J. Stewart to the United States of America for five hundred dollars ($500), allocating 10 acres of land for the Las Vegas Paiute Colony. The legal document details the precise location of the land (to the foot) north of Downtown Las Vegas and east of the San Pedro, Salt Lake and Los Angeles Railway. Peter Buol served as Notary Public and Frank A. Doherty served as Clark County Recorder.

Text

Photograph of railroad cottages, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1911

Date

1911

Description

Row of railroad cottages in Clark's Las Vegas Townsite. Photograph is of a Wharton Drug Company postcard. 64 railroad cottages were built between 1909 and 1911 by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company for employees of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad.
Caption: R. R. cottages, Las Vegas, Nev. 1911

Image

Newspaper clippings, Las Vegas Tonopah Railroad, 1907

Date

1907

Description

Newspaper clippings, Las Vegas Tonopah Railroad, 1907

Text

Photograph of Las Vegas Junior High basketball team, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1910-1920

Date

1910 to 1920

Archival Collection

Description

Las Vegas Junior High Basketball team and Coach Butler posed for a group photo.

Image

Photograph of the Las Vegas Volunteer Fire Department, Las Vegas, early to mid 1900s

Date

1900 to 1950

Description

A group photo of the Las Vegas Volunteer Fire Department in Las Vegas, Nevada. Description provided with image: "Top row, l-r: Jimmy (Jimmie?) Downs, Ray Nealy, Roy Neagle (Nagley?), Shorty Debrink, Harry Jameson, Leon Rockwell, Harold Case, Earl Rockwell (self), Percy Shellenberger, Archie Mellot, Jimmy Adams, Henry Kampling, Gene Parks, Tom Lake, Bill Trelease, Horace Taylor."

Image