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Tourists using overpass on the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-02-28

Description

Providing security and access to both automobile and pedestrian traffic is handled differently along Las Vegas Boulevard and has changed over the years on the Strip. First installed in the 1990s, the pedestrian overpass has become commonplace along the Las Vegas Strip. Here, tourists ride an escalator near the Cromwell Las Vegas hotel and casino.

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Photographic slide of a desert landscape, Clark County, Nevada, circa 1963-1964

Date

1963 (year approximate) to 1964 (year approximate)

Description

A view from above of an unidentified desert landscape with mountains in Clark County, Nevada.

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Photographic slide of view from Pintwater Cave, Nevada, circa 1963-1964

Date

1963 (year approximate) to 1964 (year approximate)

Description

Written on the slide: "View from mouth of Pintwater Cave. Clark Co., Nevada."

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Early Nevada, 1852-1968

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Series

Scope and Contents

Materials contain photographs of non-indigenous pioneers in Nevada, steamboats on the Colorado River, postcards, buildings, railroads, the University of Nevada, Reno, the Mormon Fort (the oldest non-indigenous settlement in the Las Vegas Valley), towns in Nevada, the Candelaria ruins, and schools around the state from 1852 to 1968.

Archival Collection

Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00214
Collection Name: Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Yucca Cactus sign, Nevada: photographic print

Date

unspecified year in XXXX

Description

Tubes of neon in an art sculpture.

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Slide of Candelaria, Nevada, circa 1960s - 1970s

Date

1960 to 1979

Description

Ruins in Candelaria, Nevada.

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Slide of petroglyphs, Lahontan, Nevada, circa 1960s

Date

1960 to 1969

Description

Petroglyphs at Lahontan in Nevada.

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Slide of petroglyphs, Lahontan, Nevada, circa 1960s

Date

1960 to 1969

Description

Petroglyphs at Lahontan in Nevada.

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Slide of Virgin River, Nevada, circa 1960s

Date

1960 to 1969

Description

Virgin River in Nevada.

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Slide of Crystal Springs,Nevada, circa 1960s

Date

1960 to 1969

Description

Crystal Springs in Nevada.

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