Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Displaying results 9211 - 9220 of 19634

Photograph of Cord house, Fish Lake Valley (Nev.), 1930s

Date

1930 to 1939

Description

Cord house being moved at Fish Lake Valley. It is unclear if the house is being moved to or from that site to another location.

Image

Photograph of Boulderado Ranch interior room, North Las Vegas (Nev), 1920-1930

Date

1920 to 1930

Description

Interior of the Boulderado (Taylor) Ranch (Kiel Ranch) house. Site Name: Kiel Ranch (North Las Vegas, Nev.)

Image

Photograph of a construction vehicle, Boulder City (Nev.), approximately 1931-1936

Date

1931 to 1936

Description

A man operating construction vehicles for use on the Hoover Dam, ready to take the necessary materials from the Boulder camp site.

Image

Postcard of gaming guide to blackjack showcasing the Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas (Nev.), approximately 1900s-1980s

Date

1900 to 1989

Description

A postcard advertising the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada with a gaming guide for Blackjack. Site Name: Frontier Hotel and Casino

Image

Photograph of a model of the proposed Hotel Frontier, circa 1964

Date

1962 to 1966

Description

Model of the proposed Hotel Frontier
Site Name: Frontier
Address: 3120 Las Vegas Boulevard South

Image

Photograph of Jay and Joyce Sarno on the back of Tanya the Elephant, Circus Circus, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 1971

Date

1971-02

Archival Collection

Description

Jay and Joyce Sarno sitting on the back of Tanya the Elephant at Circus Circus, Las Vegas, Nevada. Site Name: Circus Circus (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Image

Photograph of Joyce and Heidi Sarno with Tanya the Elephant at Circus Circus, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 1971

Date

1971-02

Archival Collection

Description

Joyce and daughter Heidi Sarno (age 4) with Tanya the Elephant at Circus Circus, Las Vegas, Nevada. Site Name: Circus Circus (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Image

Las Vegas Citizens Committee for Community Improvement meeting minutes, September 23, 1968

Date

1968-09-23

Description

Las Vegas Citizens Committee for Community Improvements minutes: report on access road to the Las Vegas Paiute Colony, dump sites, Mardi Gras Hotel.

Text

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

Text

Photograph of Harold Hind and Betty Hind seated at a table with others, Las Vegas (Nev.), circa 1948

Date

1948 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

Harold Hind and his wife, Betty Hind, seated around a large table with others, probably at the Thunderbird Hotel, which opened on September 2, 1948. Site Name: Thunderbird Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Image