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Palmer House, Iroquois Club 19th Annual Jefferson Day Banquet, menu, 1900 April 14

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File

Archival Collection

UNLV University Libraries Menu Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00436
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Menu Collection
Box/Folder: Box 106

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Monte-Carlo Casino located in Monaco, two views exterior and interior: photographic prints, approximately 1900 to 1999

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Item

Archival Collection

UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00171
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Flat File 24

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Original plat, townsite of Las Vegas, Lincoln Co., Nevada, January 13, 1905

Date

1905-01-13

Description

Subtitle: 'Embracing the N. 1/2 of S.W. 1/4 Sec. 27 Township 20S. R.61E. Mt. Diablo Meridian.' 'Book 1, page 17A" handwritten in lower right corner. Signed by Henry Lee, County Recorder, Lincoln County Nevada. 'Filed at request of J.T. Williams, January 13th A.D. 1905.' Backwards handwriting on right side. Map has a Lincoln County seal on the bottom near the center. In the dedication J.T. McWilliams states that he has surveyed and platted the townsite of Las Vegas subject to the right of way of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company. He signed the dedication on Jan. 13, 1905, and it was signed by witnesses Scale [ca. 1:2,520? 1 inch to approx. 210 feet?]. Copy of a blueline print.

Image

Photograph of Earl Benton, Hoot Gibson, Lester Stocker, and Roy Flood, Los Angeles, circa 1900-1905

Date

1900 to 1905

Archival Collection

Description

Earl Benton, Hoot Gibson, Lester Stocker, and Roy Flood in Los Angeles, California.

Image

Film transparency of the boys basketball team for Clark County High School, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1910

Description

Black and white image of the boys basketball team for Clark County High School posing for a picture.

Image

Film transparency of the girls basketball team for Clark County High School, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1920

Description

Black and white image of the girls basketball team for Clark County High School posing together with their ball. Note: Image is from a family photo album that was loaned to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and returned to the family on July 17, 1984.

Image

Film transparency of a Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad Company train car, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1910

Description

Black and white image of a railroad engineer inside of a train car for the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad Company.

Image

Postcard showing Scotty's Castle and Death Valley Scotty, Death Valley, California, circa mid 1900s

Date

1920 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

An image composed of Scotty's Castle, Death Valley Scotty, and a stone covered in petroglyphs. Located within the far northern region of Death Valley in Grapevine Canyon, the Death Valley Ranch, more commonly known as Scotty's Castle, is a prime example of Spanish-Mediterranean styling during the Roaring 1920s and Depression of the 1930s. Death Valley Scotty was a prospector, performer, and con man who was made famous by his scams involving gold mining near Death Valley. The petroglyph-covered rock beside Death Valley Scotty was designed by Native Americans who inhabited the valley hundreds of years ago. Transcribed across the bottom of the image: "The world's most hospitable host, Death Valley Scotty," Scotty's Castle, Death Valley, Calif."

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Map of Tonopah Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, 1902

Date

1902

Description

'Compiled and published by Booker & Bradford, engineers, Tonopah, Nevada.' 'Copyrighted by Booker & Bradford 1902.' 'Lith. Britton & Rey, S.F., Cal.' Relief shown by hachures. Includes insets of Ray Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, and Vicinity map of Tonopah Mining District, Nye County, Nevada. Includes advertisements and photographs of Tonopah ore, town of Tonopah, and of J.L. Butler, discoverer of the Mizpah Lode. Scale [ca. 1:7,200]. 1 inch to 600 feet. Mounted on linen.

Text

Home Notes: the Ideal Paper for the Ideal Home, vol. 525, no. 1626. London: Newnes & Pearson Publishing Co., 1925 March 07

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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: Box 30

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