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Photograph of automobile and camp building, Boulder City (Nev.), 1940s
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Archival Collection
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Aerial photograph of the Colorado River, Hemenway Wash, and the site of Boulder City, before 1930
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Archival Collection
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Aerial view of the Colorado River, Hemenway Wash, and the site of Boulder City
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Photograph of City Hall, North Las Vegas, circa 1970
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Archival Collection
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Slide of Nevada Highway, Boulder City, Nevada, December 1, 1931
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Archival Collection
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One of Boulder City's first schools, 1932
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Bureau of Reclamation Photographs of the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 08 (Restrictions apply)
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Postcard of the Museum of Memories, Virginia City (Nev.), January 3, 1938
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Mississippi of the West recording, 1991 July 04
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In this recorded KNPR documentary, Mississippi of the West or Promised Land, the narrator discusses a racially-segregated Las Vegas, Nevada, maltreatment of black performers prior to 1947, Jim Crow laws during World War II, refusal of hotel owners to abolish the color line, desegreation of most hotels in 1960, modern remnants of historically black neighborhoods, police department—black community tensions in these neighborhoods, and furthering of race relations in Las Vegas.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Arnold Shaw Interviews and Performance Recordings
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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