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The Golden Hotel in Reno, Nevada: postcard

Date

1940 (year approximate) to 1990 (year approximate)

Description

From the Harvey's Hotel and Casino Postcard Collection (PH-00367) -- The Golden Hotel in Reno, Nevada. The marquee is advertising Davis Reese, Sue Carson, and Nita Cruz.

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Letter (no envelope) from John M. Bunker, Bunkerville, Nevada to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada

Date

1894-07-29

Archival Collection

Description

From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached.

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Slide of protesters near the Nevada Test Site, 1984

Date

1984

Description

Color image of protesters involved with the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group demonstrating against nuclear testing.

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Slide of the Desert Moon Motel, Nevada, 1986

Date

1986

Description

Desert Moon Motel located on the side of the Boulder Highway in Nevada. Site Name: Desert Moon Motel (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Slide of a protester near the Nevada Test Site, 1984

Date

1984

Description

Color image of an activist with the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group protesting nuclear testing.

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Collage of places and views in Nevada: postcard

Date

1940 (year approximate) to 1990 (year approximate)

Description

From the Harvey's Hotel and Casino Postcard Collection (PH-00367) -- A collage of places in Nevada and an artistic rendition of the state map. The back of card is damaged and some material is unreadable.

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Grant Application to the Nevada Humanities Committee, circa 1984

Date

1983 to 1985

Description

Grant Application to the Nevada Humanities Committee, Inc. for the Nevada Student Conference on the Holocaust and Human Rights.

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Club Bon Aire in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1946-01

Description

From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). From Nevada Life, Jan. 1946.

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Film transparency of a ghost town, Delamar, Nevada, 1956

Date

1956

Description

A view of some of the abandonded buildings on a hillside in Delamar, Nevada. One of the structures has a covered porch Delamar, Nevada, nicknamed The Widowmaker, is a ghost town in central eastern Nevada, USA along the east side of the Delamar Valley. During its heyday, primarily between 1895 and 1900, it produced $13.5 million in gold. In 1889, prospectors John Ferguson and Joseph Sharp discovered gold around Monkeywrench Wash. A mining camp was then born west of the Monkeywrench Mine. It was called Ferguson. In April 1894, Captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar bought most of the important mines in the area and renamed the Ferguson camp as Delamar. In the same year, a newspaper called the Delamar Lode began publication and a post office was opened. Soon, the new settlement boasted more than 1,500 residents, a hospital, an opera house, churches, a school, several businesses and saloons. Most buildings were made of native rock. By 1896, the Delamar mill was handling up to 260 tons of ore daily. Water for the camp was pumped from a well in Meadow Valley Wash, some twelve miles away. Supplies and materials traveled even further, by mule team over mountainous terrain from the railroad head at Milford, Utah, which was 150 miles from Delamar. Silicosis The gold in the Delamar mines was embedded in quartzite which when crushed created a fine dust. Miners breathing the dust often developed silicosis and the town became known as a "widow-maker." Many ruins now stand semi-intact in the Delamar ghost town region. Foundations can easily be seen from adjacent hills. There are two graveyards, which have been vandalized. The area is honeycombed with mines and mineshafts, but in recent years the main shaft has been blasted closed. Wild horses roam the area. The nearby dry lake is known to pilots as Texas Lake because its outline resembles the state of Texas.

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