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Madame Tussaud's Exhibition Guide by Sala, Geo Augustus. Madame Tussaud & Sons, Ltd., approximately 1900 to 1909
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
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Collection Number: MS-01144
Collection Name: Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
Box/Folder: No Container 00
Collection Name: Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
Box/Folder: No Container 00
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Official Arrow city map, Las Vegas & vicinity, Nevada, circa 1957-1961
Date
1957 to 1961
Description
71 x 68 cm. on sheet 106 x 71 cm., folded in cover 25 x 12 cm. Cover title: Latest edition, city map and street index of "fabulous" Las Vegas and vicinity, Nevada. Publisher from cover. "H-654-32." Includes indexes. Inside of cover includes information on Las Vegas. Includes inset maps of Boulder City, Nevada, and Las Vegas's location. Original publisher: R. L. Polk.
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Portraits and group photographs of Eileen Lancaster's family in Bradford, England; Hamburg, Germany; Iowa; and Kentucky: photographic prints, approximately 1813 to 1900
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Eileen Lancaster Family Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00446
Collection Name: Eileen Lancaster Family Photographs
Box/Folder: Box SH-084
Collection Name: Eileen Lancaster Family Photographs
Box/Folder: Box SH-084
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Hazel Denton's brother Ralph Baker sitting on the wooden stairs of a porch with a child on his lap: photographic print, approximately 1900-1965
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Hazel Baker Denton Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00312
Collection Name: Hazel Baker Denton Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02
Collection Name: Hazel Baker Denton Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02
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Map showing detailed topography of the country traversed by the reconnaissance expedition through southern & southeastern Nevada, 1869 (reproduction)
Date
1869
Description
At top of map: 'Reconnaissance Maps, Department of California.' 'In charge of, Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, U.S. Engineers; assisted by Lieut. D.W. Lockwood, Corps of Engineers,U.S.A., 1969.' 'P.W. Hamel, chief topographer and draugthsman.' 'Traced 11-13-67.' 'BGS'; the G is enclosed in an arrowhead shape. 'Officially compiled and published at the Engineer Office, Head Quarters Department of California in 1869 and 70 by order of Brigadier General E.O.C. Ord. Comm'dg. [signed] Geo. M. Wheeler, Lieutenant of Engineers In Charge, Head Quarters Dept. of Cal. Oct. 26th, 1870.' Includes information from railroad maps, the United States Geological Survey of the 40th parallel and from Lieutenant Ives' explorations along the Colorado. Map includes camps, astronomical stations, good and bad wagon roads, trails, springs, settlements, mining districts, state and county boundaries and the watershed between the Humboldt and Colorado Basin. Shows most of eastern half of Nevada. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale indeterminable. (W 117°00´--W 113°00´/N 41°45´--N 35°45´). Series: Reconnaissance maps. Military map / Department of Californiano. 1. Reproduction. Map is printed in purple. Scale of original map: [1:760,320]. 1 in. to approx. 12 miles. Includes dots hand-colored with red pencil marking Indian rancherias.
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Reproduction of an original image from early 1900s of Lois Kellogg posed in a regal outfit: photographic print, approximately 1950 to 1990
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Item
Archival Collection
Denny Lynch Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00255
Collection Name: Denny Lynch Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 05
Collection Name: Denny Lynch Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 05
Archival Component
Postcard showing view from Mount Whitney Highway across Owens Valley, Lone Pine, California, circa mid 1900s
Date
1920 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
An image of the Mount Whitney Highway across Owens Valley in Lone Pine, California. Transcribed upon the bottom of the image: "View from new Mt. Whitney Highway across Owens Valley, Alabama Hills, oldest formations in U.S. middle distance, Lone Pine, California."
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Blueprint showing proposed pipeline for gravity water supply at Las Vegas, Nevada, February 16, 1905
Date
1905-02-16
Description
'Office of Chief Engineer, Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 16, 1905.' '2-18-17' hand-printed in lower right corner. Proposed pipeline is printed in red. Scale [1:6,000]. 1 inch to 500 feet. San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company. Office of Chief Engineer
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Map of Las Vegas Rancho, Lincoln County, Nevada, September 15, 1904
Date
1904-09-15
Description
'Being part of Township 20 S. R.61 E. MT. D. B.&.M, containing 1864.49 acres. Division engineer's office at the front, AMB, September 15th, 1904. A.L. Jones, Division Engineer. Surveyed by W.G. Watson, Assistant Engineer. Dwg. 30296.' Includes traverse table. Shows land owned by the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, its right of way and the right of way for the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad, land owned by the Las Vegas Land & Water Company including Clark's Las Vegas Townsite with the Bucks Addition and the Wardie Addition, and parcels sold from the Las Vegas Land & Water Company land. Scale: [1:9,600]. 1 in. to 800 feet. Library's copies 1 and 4 have land owned by the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad hand-colored in pink and the rest of the Las Vegas Rancho not owned by the Las Vegas Land & Water Company hand-colored in green. Library's copy 2 has buildings of the Stewart Ranch drawn in and labeled in pencil. Library's copy 3 has addition and subtraction problems in pencil on the verso. Library's copy 4 has "Original purchase--1864.49 acres R.R.C. + L.V.L. + W. Co.--In colors." written in pencil on the verso followed by "(1904)" in red pencil. Library's copy 4 also has label on verson made of brown paper with "No 5 Las Vegas Ranch being part township ( 1904)" typed on it.
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Geologic map of the Lathrop Wells quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada, 1970
Date
1970
Description
58 x 47 cm., on sheet 74 x 84 cm., folded in envelope 30 x 24 cm. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Bedrock geology mapped by B.C. Burchfiel, 1961, and by E.J. McKay and K.A. Sargent, 1965-66. Surficial geology mapped by A.T. Fernald, 1968." Includes cross sections, description of map units, and location map. "Prepared in cooperation with the U. S. Atomic Commission." Original publisher: Interior, Geological Survey, Series: Geologic quadrangle map GQ, Scale: 1:24 000.
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