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Fremont Street East, 2020 February 11
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This part of the collection was photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photograph series documents landscape improvements along Fremont Street East in downtown Las Vegas.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada
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View of a steam vessel, possibly Newburn: photographic print
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Marion Brooks Photograph Collection
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The Marion Brooks Photograph Collection (approximately 1983-1989) contains one black-and-white photographic negative depicting Brooks with his family and associates, as well as three black-and-white photographic negatives of the Blue Diamond Mine in Clark County, Nevada. These negatives are reproductions of originals loaned to UNLV University Libraries Special Collection and Archives in 1983.
Archival Collection
Las Vegas Strip (Resorts World Las Vegas construction), 2018 September 21 to 2020 February 06
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This part of the collection was photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photograph series documents ongoing construction work at the Resorts World Las Vegas site.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada
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The Collection of Newspaper Clippings on Thomas Hanley
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The Collection of Newspaper Clippings on Thomas Hanley is comprised of photocopied newspaper articles from the
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Las Vegas Convention Center expansion construction, 2019 May 30 to 2020 February 06
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This part of the collection was photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photograph series documents ongoing construction work at the Las Vegas Convention Center expansion site.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada
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Dennis McBride Personal Papers
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The Dennis McBride Personal Papers (approximately 1920-2023) contain the papers of local historian and activist Dennis McBride. Papers include correspondence between McBride and many prominent members of the Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ community; financial and employment records from McBride's time at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Nevada State Museum; publications, press, and research surrounding McBride's numerous written works, unpublished and published; and family history, correspondence, and other personal documents. The collection also contains McBride's detailed personal date books and diaries that span multiple decades. Some audiovisual material and correspondence exist as digital files.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Mayme Stocker and Butch Leypoldt, (Nev.), May 27, 1963
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Nevada State Protection of Marriage Initiative Collection
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The Nevada State Protection of Marriage Initiative Collection (2000) consists of Clark County, Nevada petition signatures in favor of the initiative to exclude gay and lesbian Nevadans from marriage. The "Protection of Marriage Initiative" was also known as Question Two on the ballot. Much of this material is photocopied from the Nevada State Archives and contains pages from Clark County, including Boulder City, as well as notable Southern Nevada signatures.
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