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Photograph of White Rock Spring at the Nevada Test Site, post-1960
Date
1960 to 1970
Archival Collection
Description
White Rock Spring on the Nevada Test Site. [Caption in N[evada] T[est] S[ite] News n. d. p. 8]
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "White Rock Springs - Oasis on the Test Site"
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Postcard of composite Las Vegas sites, circa 1940s
Date
1940 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
A postcard from Las Vegas. Handwritten message on back of postcard: "Dear Eleanor, when we struck this I said to Phil, you'd never get Eleanor out of it, I hate to leave but unless you're lucky you might as well keep going. Everything wide open and going 24 hours a day but very enticing. Some day after I've found that gold we're heading for I'm coming back and stake my poke our best to you and Bernard. Mae and Phil. Now Yosemite then S. F. Fair and down the coast."
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Photograph of a Lake Mead marina site, circa 1934-1950s
Date
1934 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
An image of one of Lake Mead's many marina sites, located on a shore of the reservoir. At this particular marina, cars park near a building that offers boat rentals and boat rides. The first floating marina building of Lake Mead can be seen branching out from the brink of the shore.
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Photograph of a Lake Mead marina site, circa 1934-1950s
Date
1934 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
An image of one of Lake Mead's many marina sites, located on a shore of the reservoir. At this particular marina, cars park near a building that offers boat rentals and boat rides. The first floating marina building of Lake Mead can be seen branching out from the brink of the shore.
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Photograph of rocky construction site, Hoover Dam, approximately 1931-1936
Date
1931 to 1936
Archival Collection
Description
A construction site on the Hoover Dam in the early 1930s.
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Photograph of dump site, Hoover Dam, circa 1932
Date
1931 to 1933
Archival Collection
Description
Downstream dumps for tunnel muck; carried from river to dump.
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Sketch of Circus Circus (Las Vegas), site plan, December 6, 1967
Date
1967-12-06
Archival Collection
Description
Rough sketch of the site plan of Circus Circus noted "For Sarno Approval;" mixed media on tissue paper
Site Name: Circus Circus Las Vegas
Address: 2880 Las Vegas Boulevard South
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Postcard of a Lake Mead marina site, circa 1934-1950s
Date
1934 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
An image of one of Lake Mead's many marina sites, located on a shore of the reservoir. At this particular marina, cars and tour buses park near a building that offers boat rentals and boat rides. The first floating marina building of Lake Mead can be seen branching out from the brink of the shore.
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Photograph of the construction site for Boulder City, Nevada, April 19, 1931
Date
1931-04-19
Archival Collection
Description
The desert construction site of what would later become Boulder City, Nevada.
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Photographic slide of archeological site in Wadsworth, Nevada, circa early 1960s
Date
1960 (year approximate) to 1963 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Written on the slide: "26-LY-23 site at Wadsworth, Nevada looking east."
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