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Local UN gathering, image 001

Date

1950 to 1969

Description

Help Us Write History responses to article from UNLV Special Collections, posted in the Las Vegas Review Journal on April 8, 1984 on behalf of the Dorothy Dorothy Collection. As stated, 30 callers identified the woman as Dorothy Werner, the man in the middle as Dr. Charles West, and the man on the right as Attorney Charles Kellar. The callers' names and numbers are listed in order of call, as well as information they know about the people in the photograph.

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Local UN gathering, image 001

Date

1950 to 1969

Description

Help Us Write History responses to article from UNLV Special Collections, posted in the Las Vegas Review Journal on April 8, 1984 on behalf of the Dorothy Dorothy Collection. As stated, 30 callers identified the woman as Dorothy Werner, the man in the middle as Dr. Charles West, and the man on the right as Attorney Charles Kellar. The callers' names and numbers are listed in order of call, as well as information they know about the people in the photograph.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to William Reinhardt (Los Angeles), March 28, 1941

Date

1941-03-28

Archival Collection

Description

Table showing meter readings of gallons of water used during a twenty-day period in March 1941. Bracken states the meters are manufactured by Sparling, and suggests they are over-registering.

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Letter from E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles) to William Reinhardt, January 4, 1952

Date

1952-01-04

Archival Collection

Description

The Nevada State Engineer suggested that the Las Vegas Valley Water District purchase 1200 acres of "water bearing lands," but the District only wanted to purchase 679 acres.

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Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-2022

Claes Oldenburg is an artist and scultpor resposnible for the Flashlight sculpture between the Artemus Ham Concert Hall and the Judy Bayley Theatre on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. He was born in 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden. Because of his father's job as a diplomat, the family moved frequently between the United States and Norway until they settled down in Chicago, Illinois in 1936.

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City of Las Vegas map, 1952

Date

1952

Description

General information on Las Vegas and index on verso ; Copyright held by Redwood Publishing Co. ; Includes inset map of the Strip (U.S. 91 or Los Angeles Highway) ; Redwood Publishing Company

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Map of a portion of the Eldorado Mining District, November 1916

Date

1916-11

Description

'Edition No. 2. November 1916.' Map is one side of a folded flyer advertising mines and mining in the Eldorado Canyon district. Transporation options to the area are listed. Scale: 1" = 1000'.

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