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Haller, Mark H. Bootleggers as Businessmen: From City Slums to City Builders, Law, Alcohol, and Order: perspectives on national prohibition, approximately 1900 to 1999
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Archival Collection
UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
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Collection Number: MS-00626
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 19
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 19
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Butterfield, Roger. Harold's Club: Country's biggest gambling joint run by Smith family of Reno, Life 19(16), approximately 1900 to 1999
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Archival Collection
UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
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Collection Number: MS-00626
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 10
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 10
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Rochester Mine in Goldfield, Nevada. Rinker is on the left, J. D. MacMaster fourth from right. The other men are not identified: photographic print, approximately 1900-1910
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C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00350
Collection Name: C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada
Box/Folder: Oversized Box SH-066 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada
Box/Folder: Oversized Box SH-066 (Restrictions apply)
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Postcard of Weepah, Nevada, desert and gambling scenes, Death Valley Scotty, Frank Horton, Jr., and Tex Rickard, circa 1900s-1920s
Date
1900 to 1929
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Description
A picture postcard with photographs of prospectors Death Valley Scotty (Walter E. Scott) and Frank Horton [Jr.], promoter Tex Rickard, two saloon gambling scenes, a panoramic view of Weepah, Nevada in 1927, and an illustration of a coyote in the desert (captioned "The orphan of the desert").
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"Early Las Vegans: Jimmy & Lola Adams & daughter. Bessie Rockwell (behind Earl), Earl Rockwell, Margie and Leon Jr." (written on verso): photographic print, approximately 1915 to 1925
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Archival Collection
Leon Rockwell Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00008
Collection Name: Leon Rockwell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 20
Collection Name: Leon Rockwell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 20
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Photograph of a Paiute or Shoshone woman and two Anglo women seated on wicker chairs, possibly at Manse Ranch, Pahrump, Nevada, circa 1900s-1910s
Date
1900 to 1919
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Description
Paiute or Shoshone woman and two Anglo women seated on wicker chairs, possibly at Manse Ranch. A Post-it note identifies the Indian woman as "probably Maude Yount."
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Photograph of Emma (Peggy) Marie (Schaefle) Schuyler and William Norton Schuyler (left), with Jack (John) and Caroline Heaton., Denver, Colorado, January, 1900
Date
1900-01
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Description
Emma (Peggy) Marie (Schaefle) Schuyler and William Norton Schuyler (left), with Jack (John) and Caroline Heaton. In Denver, Colorado. Caroline is Emma's sister (Caroline Agnes (Schaefle) Heaton), and was prominent in Las Vegas real estate market in 1930s-40s. Caroline established the first Las Vegas radio station KGIX in 1928 in the "country" at the current location of 9th and Mesquite Streets.
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The Golden Treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., approximately 1900 to 1909
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Archival Collection
Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
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Collection Number: MS-01144
Collection Name: Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
Box/Folder: No Container 00
Collection Name: Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
Box/Folder: No Container 00
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Postcard: from left to right: Albert Henderson, Alice Henderson O'Brien (Albert S. Henderson's sister), and Dr. O'Brien at the World's Fair, 1900s
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Albert S. Henderson Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00317
Collection Name: Albert S. Henderson Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Collection Name: Albert S. Henderson Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
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Album 9: photographs of the Park families in Las Vegas, Nevada, the town of Austin, Nevada, the Lost City Ranch, aerial images of Las Vegas, 1900-1930s
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Archival Collection
Maurine and Fred Wilson and Dr. William S. Park Photograph Albums
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Collection Number: PH-00222
Collection Name: Maurine and Fred Wilson and Dr. William S. Park Photograph Albums
Box/Folder: Box 02
Collection Name: Maurine and Fred Wilson and Dr. William S. Park Photograph Albums
Box/Folder: Box 02
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