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Construction of Nevada Club, image 003: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Construction of Las Vegas Convention Center, image 067: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of a man, Colorado River, 1920s
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of the Fremont Theatre advertising "Helen of Troy," Las Vegas (Nev.), March 1962
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of of mountains and rocks, Hoover Dam, approximately 1931-1936
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Archival Collection
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Lake, Spud
Robert E. "Spud" Lake was a Las Vegas pioneer and civic developer for whom an elementary school was named. He was born in 1857 in Illinois. He married Mary Ellen Osborn in Missouri in 1885, and they moved to Ontario, Canada, before eventually settling in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1904. He started a barbershop for railroad workers and other settlers in the area. Lake participated in the land auction for the Las Vegas town site and purchased two parcels. The first school was built on one of his parcels; and he served as the first president of the school board, and later as a trustee.
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Oakes Las Vegas Studio Photographs [UNPROCESSED]
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This collection in unprocessed. See Access Note for more information. The Oakes Las Vegas Studio Photographs [UNPROCESSED] consist of a sample book of photographic postcards by Oakes Vegas Studio. It contains images from the 1920s through 1937. Images depict general Las Vegas scenes, Fremont Street, Hoover Dam, desert areas near Las Vegas, Native Americans, Native burial sites, the Lost City, Lake Mead, and more.
Archival Collection
Alfred Isola oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Alfred Isola conducted by Stephen Kalish on March 15, 1976 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Isola discusses Las Vegas, Nevada’s lack of a unified garbage system and how dumping sites have had to adjust their practices in order to limit their impact on pollution. Isola also explains the different disposal protocols for wet and dry trash.
Archival Collection
Merlino, James Donald "Jim", 1928-
Nye County, Nevada Sheriff who oversaw police activities at anti-nuclear protests at Nevada Test Site. See: http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-11/news/mn-4277_1_nevada-test-site
Date of birth: 11/25/1928
Place of birth: Wallace, Idaho
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Sands Hotel architecture: photographs
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Archival Collection
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Series VIII. Sands Hotel Interior and Exterior
Sands Hotel and Casino
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