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Photographs of Frontier Strike, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1991 August (folder 1 of 1)

Date

1991-08

Description

Culinary Union workers strike at the Frontier Hotel and Casino in August of 1991. Strikers are seen with signs marching in a parking lot. The American flag is shown multiple times, along with a portable restroom with a multiple protesting sign, including one depicting Margaret Elardi. Police officers are also seen on site. The Frontier marquee is depicted and reads: "Welcome Boilermakers, players bar 10am to 10pm, boilermakers 50 cents, bottle beer 25 cents."Arrangement note: Series I. Demonstrations, Subseries I.A. Frontier Strike Site name: Frontier Hotel and Casino

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Photographs of Harrah's signs, Las Vegas (Nev.), 2002

Date

2002

Description

Daytime and nighttime views of the Harrah's Las Vegas Hotel and Casino signs on the Strip. Information about the sign is available in the Southern Nevada Neon Survey Data Sheet.
Site name: Harrah's Las Vegas
Site address: 3475 S Las Vegas Blvd
Sign owner: Harrah's Entertainment
Sign form: Pylon; Fascia; Porte-cochère
Sign - type of display: Neon; Incandescent; Backlit
Sign - media: Steel; Plastic
Sign - non-neon treatments: Graphics; Paint
Sign animation: Chasing, flashing, oscillating
Sign - date of installation: 1995
Surveyor: Joshua Cannaday
Survey - date completed: 2002
Sign keywords: Chasing; Flashing; Oscillating; Pylon; Fascia; Porte-cochère; Neon; Incandescent; Backlit; Steel; Plastic; Graphics; Paint

Mixed Content

Unidentified protestor at an anti-atomic weapons march: photographic print

Date

1988

Description

An anti-atomic weapons march in Hamburg, Germany 1988. The man pictured was the first protestor at the solidarity action for the march/demonstration at the Nevada Test Site.

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Report by the Freeman Company publicist regarding the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, circa October 18, 1953- October 18, 1959

Date

1953 to 1959

Description

A report by the Freeman Company publicists regarding the entertainment at the Sands Hotel and the hotel's history in Las Vegas, Nevada. Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino

Mixed Content

Fred and Maurine Wilson photographs (unidentified), image 54

Date

1960 to 1990

Description

Unidentified man stands next to a blue car with a suitcase in the Hacienda Hotel parking lot. Site Name: Hacienda del Sol (Reno, Nev.)

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Photograph of Betty Hind, Dub McClanahan, and others, Las Vegas (Nev.), circa 1948

Date

1948 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

A large group of people, including Betty Hind and Dub McClanahan, probably at the Thunderbird Hotel, which opened on September 2, 1948. Site Name: Thunderbird Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Heliostats (mirrors) at Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2014-06-24

Description

Photographer's note: "10,347 heliostats (mirrors) are part of the Crescent Dunes Solar project. Each heliostat is 34 feet tall, uses 35 mirrors, and has a surface area of 1258 square feet, or 115.7 square meters. On site photo, Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada, USA."
Photographer's assigned keywords: "110 megawatts; CSP; Concentrated Solar Energy; Concentrated Solar Power; Crescent Dunes; NV; Nevada; Solar Reserve; SolarReserve; Tonopah; concentrated solar thermal; green energy; ground-based photo; molten salt; on-site; renewable energy; storage; tower."

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Heliostats (mirrors) at Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2014-06-24

Description

Photographer's note: "10,347 heliostats (mirrors) are part of the Crescent Dunes Solar project. Each heliostat is 34 feet tall, uses 35 mirrors, and has a surface area of 1258 square feet, or 115.7 square meters. On site photo, Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada, USA."
Photographer's assigned keywords: "110 megawatts; CSP; Concentrated Solar Energy; Concentrated Solar Power; Crescent Dunes; NV; Nevada; Solar Reserve; SolarReserve; Tonopah; concentrated solar thermal; green energy; ground-based photo; molten salt; on-site; renewable energy; storage; tower."

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Heliostats (mirrors) at Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2014-06-24

Description

Photographer's note: "10,347 heliostats (mirrors) are part of the Crescent Dunes Solar project. Each heliostat is 34 feet tall, uses 35 mirrors, and has a surface area of 1258 square feet, or 115.7 square meters. On site photo, Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada, USA."
Photographer's assigned keywords: "110 megawatts; CSP; Concentrated Solar Energy; Concentrated Solar Power; Crescent Dunes; NV; Nevada; Solar Reserve; SolarReserve; Tonopah; concentrated solar thermal; green energy; ground-based photo; molten salt; on-site; renewable energy; storage; tower."

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Heliostats (mirrors) at Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2014-06-24

Description

Photographer's note: "10,347 heliostats (mirrors) are part of the Crescent Dunes Solar project. Each heliostat is 34 feet tall, uses 35 mirrors, and has a surface area of 1258 square feet, or 115.7 square meters. On site photo, Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada, USA."
Photographer's assigned keywords: "110 megawatts; CSP; Concentrated Solar Energy; Concentrated Solar Power; Crescent Dunes; NV; Nevada; Solar Reserve; SolarReserve; Tonopah; concentrated solar thermal; green energy; ground-based photo; molten salt; on-site; renewable energy; storage; tower."

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