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Nevada System of Higher Education NSHE Board of Regents Chief of Staff Dean J. Gould: digital photographs
Date
2016-03-31
Archival Collection
Description
Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05).
Image
Later Las Vegas, Nevada, 1930-1980
Level of Description
Series
Scope and Contents
Materials contain photographs of Las Vegas, Nevada after 1930, including photographs of the Von Tobel family, Fremont Street, Hoover Dam construction, aerial photographs of the city, local organizations like the Kiwanis Club, and the Von Tobel Lumber Company.
Archival Collection
Jacob E. Von Tobel Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00204
Collection Name: Jacob E. Von Tobel Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
Collection Name: Jacob E. Von Tobel Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Slide of protesters at a demonstration near the Nevada Test Site, March 10, 1991
Date
1991-03-10
Archival Collection
Description
Color image of protesters at a Park-n-Ride lot preparing for an anti-nuclear testing demonstration organized by Lenten Desert Experience (also called Nevada Desert Experience) in the Nevada desert.
Image
Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, August 14, 1979
Date
1979-08-14
Archival Collection
Description
Agenda and meeting minutes for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Senate. CSUN Session 8 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.
Text
Slide of protesters with a wooden cross near the Nevada Test Site, 1984
Date
1984
Archival Collection
Description
Color image of activists erecting a wooden cross in the desert. They are part of the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group protesting nuclear testing.
Image
Film transparency of Hoover (Boulder) Dam, taken from the upstream side of the dam on the Nevada side, May, 1947
Date
1947-05
Archival Collection
Description
Hoover (Boulder) Dam, taken from the upstream side of the dam on the Nevada side. May, 1947. The intake towers, Nevada spillway house (in the background, behind the intake towers), and the Nevada spillway are visible. During the years of lobbying leading up to the passage of legislation authorizing the dam in 1928, Hoover Dam was originally referred to "Boulder Dam" or as "Boulder Canyon Dam", even though the proposed site had shifted to Black Canyon. The Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928 (BCPA) never mentions a proposed name or title for the dam. When Secretary Wilbur spoke at the ceremony starting the building of the railway between Las Vegas and the dam site on September 17, 1930, he named the dam "Hoover Dam", citing a tradition of naming dams after Presidents, though none had been so honored during their terms of office. After Hoover's election defeat in 1932 and the accession of the Roosevelt administration, Secretary Ickes ordered on May 13, 1933 that the dam be referred to as "Boulder Dam". In the following years, the n
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Postcard of mule teams and wagons, Belleville, Nevada, 1880s
Date
1880 to 1889
Archival Collection
Description
Mule teams and ore wagons from mines approaching unloading chutes above mill. Employers standing below at ore mill in Belleville, Nevada.
Image
Photograph of building construction, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, circa 1991-1992
Date
1991 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Construction taking place at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on the Rod Lee Bigelow Health Sciences (BHS) building.
Image
Photograph of a mail room, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, circa 1991-1992
Date
1991 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
The mail room in the Rod Lee Bigelow Health Sciences (BHS) building, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
Image
Photograph of a break room, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, circa 1991-1992
Date
1991 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Break room in the Rod Lee Bigelow Health Sciences (BHS) building, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
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