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Conceptual sketch of outdoors at the Showboat Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey: photographic print

Date

1986

Description

From the Showboat Atlantic City Photograph Collection (PH-00329).

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Conceptual sketch of the interior of Showboat Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey: photographic print

Date

1986

Description

From the Showboat Atlantic City Photograph Collection (PH-00329).

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Conceptual sketch of the exterior of Showboat Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey: photographic print

Date

1986

Description

From the Showboat Atlantic City Photograph Collection (PH-00329).

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Film transparency of an airport and a Trans World Airlines terminal, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1930s

Date

1930 to 1939

Archival Collection

Description

The view of two Trans World Airlines (TWA) airplanes in the Trans World Airlines terminal in an unnamed airport located in Boulder City, Nevada. One of America's oldest International Air Carriers (INAC) that was popular during the twentieth century, the Trans World Airlines was aided by aviator Charles Lindbergh in mapping out the company's early air routes, and so in the 1930s Trans World Airlines was also known as "The Lindbergh Line."

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Photographic slide of Esther and Charles Rozaire in Carson City, Nevada, circa early 1960s

Date

1960 (year approximate) to 1963 (year approximate)

Description

Written on the slide: "Charles Rozaire, Esther Rozaire at Nevada State Museum, Carson City, Nevada."

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Film transparency of a general view of Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1932-1940s

Date

1932 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

The view of a snow-covered Terminal Building and automobiles in Boulder City, Nevada. Transcribed onto some of the signs across the buildings going from left to right: "Chamber of Commerce"; "Flowers"; "Souvenirs"; "Boulder Cafe"; and "Union Bus Terminal Taxi."

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Slide of Petroglyphs on a rock, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 2000s

Date

unspecified year in 200X (year approximate)

Description

Petroglyphs in the Boulder City Dry Fall Area. The exact location is unknown, but the location is possibly in Keyhole Canyon. Petroglyphs are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images. Petroglyphs are found world-wide, and are often associated with prehistoric peoples. The word comes from the Greek words petro-, theme of the word "petra" meaning "stone", and glyphein meaning "to carve", and was originally coined in French as pétroglyphe. The term petroglyph should not be confused with petrograph, which is an image drawn or painted on a rock face. Both types of image belong to the wider and more general category of rock art or parietal art. Petroforms, or patterns and shapes made by many large rocks and boulders over the ground, are also quite different. Inukshuks are also uni

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Nevada Legislature in Carson City, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1923

Description

From the Albert S. Henderson Photograph Collection (PH-00317).

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Two houses in Virginia City, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1954

Description

From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240)

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House and hillside, Virginia City, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1954

Description

From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240)

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