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Mandalay Bay can be seen through a gate where flowers and name tags honoring the 58 people who were killed during a 2017 mass shooting were placed at the Route 91 Harvest Festival grounds, looking southwest, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2019-10-03

Description

Following the October 1, 2017 killing of 58 people at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, the Las Vegas community responded in a variety of ways. To honor the second anniversary of the shooting, various items were left at the site.

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Mandalay Bay is seen through a gate where flowers and name tags honoring the 58 people who were killed during a 2017 mass shooting were placed at the Route 91 Harvest Festival grounds, looking southwest, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2019-10-03

Description

Following the October 1, 2017 killing of 58 people at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, the Las Vegas community responded in a variety of ways. To honor the second anniversary of the shooting, various items were left at the site.

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Photograph of hikers at Arizona spillway, Hoover Dam, circa 1932

Date

1931 to 1933

Description

Hikers at the site of Arizona spillway in the Hoover Dam.

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Pioche Power and Light Company, image 001 of 009: photographic print

Date

1960 (year approximate) to 1969 (year approximate)

Description

Construction on site of Pioche Power and Light Co.

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Roosevelt Toston oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01839

Abstract

Oral history interview with Roosevelt Toston conducted by Claytee D. White on July 11, 2006 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Toston discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1950s and his various careers at the Test Site, Bell Telephone of Nevada, as a television anchorman and cameraman, and the Convention and Visitors Authority to bring conventions to Las Vegas. He also talks about ways African American entrepreneurs might get involved in the convention business.

Archival Collection

Photograph of an archeological excavation at Willow Beach, Arizona, circa 1950

Date

1948 to 1952

Description

Black and white image of men at an archeological excavation at Willow Beach near Lake Mohave. Standing at the left is H.O. Watts.

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Brittney Erickson oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02454

Abstract

Oral history interview with Brittney Erickson conducted by Claytee D. White on August 14, 2015 for the Building a Las Vegas Tech Culture oral history project. In this interview, Erickson talks about growing up in Henderson in a household that pursued the family-owned business, her education and work as a teacher, and "The Spirit Project", a web-based software tool that links government agencies to people with social challenges.

Archival Collection

Film transparency of the Black Canyon and Colorado River area, June 23, 1929

Date

1929-06-23

Description

Black and white image of the Black Canyon Reservoir site as seen from Monument Pass on the Nevada side of the Colorado River. This photograph was taken at 6:25 a.m.

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