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Photograph of Belle Butler and Daisy Rendall at a mine in Tonopah, Nevada, circa 1901

Date

1900 to 1902

Description

Belle Butler (wife of Jim Butler, lower left), and Daisy Rendall (later married to Nevada Governor Tasker Oddie), pose outside of adits at a mine near Tonopah, Nevada where Jim Butler first discovered gold.

Image

Photograph of Roy Purcell with a chainsaw at Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Boulder City (Nev.), 1974

Date

1974-03

Description

Roy Purcell preparing the Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Boulder City to be moved to Clark County Museum in Henderson, March 1974.

Image

Slide of construction on Hoover Dam, circa early 1930s

Date

1932 to 1935

Archival Collection

Description

Black and white image of equipment being lowered into Hoover Dam. People are watching from the lookout point on the Nevada side of the dam. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image

Photograph of mushroom cloud from atomic testing, Nye (Nev.), March 7, 1955

Date

1955-03-07

Description

Atomic fireball and mushroom cloud, photographed by Sgt. Robert Cogswell of the U.S. Army. Inscription with photo reads: "from News fifteen and one-half miles from ground zero March 7, 1955, by an Army Signal Corps cameraman."

Image

Twitter dataset, 2017

Date

2017-09-29 to 2017-10-07

Description

This is comprised of all the Tweets captured and the images that were associated with the collected Tweets. The Tweets are expressed in JSON and have been separated into zip files representing 24-hour intervals.

Access to these data is restricted to UNLV faculty, staff, and students. These data are accessible online, at UNLV Lied Library, at: https://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1z31nv8w. Due to the size of the dataset, direct file transfer is also available at the UNLV Lied Library during Special Collections and Archives hours of operation. Visit the Special Collections and Archives Reading Room located on the third floor of the Lied Library to receive a direct transfer of files. For specific questions, please contact special.collections@unlv.edu.

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