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The 540 foot (165 meter) high tower, Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2014-06-24

Archival Collection

Description

Photographer's note: "The 540 foot (165 meter) high tower at the center of Crescent Dunes Solar's plant is where the sun's thermal energy is directed to a black target area atop the tower. This is where molten salt pumped up from below is heated to 1050°F (566°C). On site photo, Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada, USA."
Photographer's assigned keywords: "110 megawatts; CSP; Concentrated Solar Energy; Concentrated Solar Power; Crescent Dunes; NV; Nevada; Solar Reserve; SolarReserve; Tonopah; concentrated solar thermal; green energy; ground-based photo; molten salt; on-site; renewable energy; storage; tower."

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Photograph of a room in a hotel suite, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1968

Date

1968

Archival Collection

Description

A living room in a guest suite at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada. A baby grand piano is included. Site Name: Caesars Palace (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Photograph album 1, Leon Rockwell Collection, circa 1900s-1910s, page 28

Date

1900 to 1910
1905 to 1919

Description

Captions: Killed by Nez Perce, Bill Foster[?], age 24, July 4, 1877, near Cottonwood; Salmon River Breaks; Near Riggins, site of massacre 1877.

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Video interview with Rose Hamilton, Carolyn Haywood, Marilyn Armstrong, Hannah Johnson, Bobbie Gilmore and Delores "Dodi" Johnson, January 20, 2007

Date

2007-01-20

Description

Oral history conversation with Rose Hamilton, Carolyn Haywood, Marilyn Armstrong, Hannah Johnson, Bobbie Gilmore and Delores (Dodi) Johnson. The group shares memories of how they and their families came to live in Las Vegas during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Architectural drawing of Sands Hotel (Las Vegas) additions and alterations, ultimate development plan, phase IV construction, February 5, 1964

Date

1964-02-05

Description

Architectural plans for proposed additions and alterations to The Sands. Printed on mylar. Berton Charles Severson, architect; Brian Walter Webb, architect; Frank R. Bernard, delineator.
Site Name: Sands Hotel
Address: 3355 Las Vegas Boulevard South

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Transcript of interview with Brad Nelson by Stefani Evans, October 30, 2017

Date

2017-10-30

Description

In 1984, with the advice of his father ringing in his ears, Brad Nelson uprooted his wife and two children from their Denver home and moved them to Henderson, Nevada, where he would begin a new adventure in shaping the new master-planned community of Green Valley with Mark Fine and American Nevada Corporation (ANC). Nelson, lifelong Nebraskan and only child of his parents, arrived armed with a Bachelor's degree in landscape architecture with urban planning option, a Master's degree in urban planning, and fifteen years of planning and executive experience with the national firm of Harmon, O'Donnell and Henniger Planning Consultants. He arrived in time to plan Green Valley's first village, the Village of Silver Spring. By the time he left ANC for Lake Las Vegas in 1999, his work was done and most large parcels had been sold. As Nelson puts it, by 1999 ANC was "out of land, and I'm a land guy." Lake Las Vegas had plenty of undeveloped land, so "land guy" Nelson a chief operating officer

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Crosses at the former location of the Berlin Wall: photographic print

Date

1989

Description

Site where the Berlin Wall was recently taken down. Memorial crosses are pictured honoring those who died trying to escape from East Germany. Berlin, Germany 1989.

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Memorial at the former location of the Berlin Wall: photographic print

Date

1989

Description

Site where the Berlin Wall was recently taken down. Memorial crosses are pictured honoring those who died trying to escape from East Germany. Berlin, Germany 1989.

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Sister Rosemary Lynch holding a protest sign: photographic print

Date

1997-05-10

Description

A group of protestors from the Lenten Desert Experience at the Federal Building in Las Vegas, protesting nuclear testing and the Nevada Test Site. January 27, 1986. (colored print available)

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Photograph of men playing poker at World Series tournament, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1976

Date

1976

Description

A table of players in the Horseshoe Casino's Seventh World Series of Poker playing an intense game, thinking about their next move. Site Name: Horseshoe Club (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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