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Aerial photograph of apartments and residential neighborhoods in North Las Vegas, Nevada, June 5, 1973

Date

1973-06-05

Description

Aerial view of Northland Gardens apartments and surrounding neighborhoods, North Las Vegas, Nevada, looking southeast from around Geist Avenue. Sandy Lane runs from southwest to northeast through the center of the photograph. Clifford Street appears at the lower right. Caption on back of photograph: "Project: Land use, Sandy Lane, North Gardens in foreground, looking south; Americana on east side of Sandy"

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Aerial photograph of North Las Vegas, Nevada, June 5, 1973

Date

1973-06-05

Description

Aerial view of North Las Vegas, Nevada, looking south from Las Vegas Boulevard North between North Pecos Road and Sandy Lane. Northland Gardens apartments are seen in the center of the photograph. Caption on back of photograph: "Project: Annex. area - land use. Location: Looking so. across, west on right L.V.B.N. toward Northland Gardens, Hol. Pk., Americana."

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Aerial photograph of North Las Vegas, Nevada, June 5, 1973

Date

1973-06-05

Description

Aerial view of North Las Vegas, Nevada, looking southwest from Cheyenne Avenue near North Pecos Road. Caption on back of photograph: "Project: Land use. Location: Cheyenne Ave., Las Vegas Blvd. No., Pecos (No. & So.)." Hotels in Las Vegas skyline are seen in distance in upper right.

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Aerial photograph of North Las Vegas, Nevada, June 5, 1973

Date

1973-06-05

Description

Aerial view of North Las Vegas, Nevada, with boundaries of "model neighborhood" marked in white. Handwritten on back of photograph: "Corner of Main St. and Las Vegas Blvd. North (No. 5th St.). Model neighborhood includes most of original NLV Williams additions." Label at lower right of photo:"Aerial view of Model Neighborhood with boundaries indicated."

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Photograph of schoolchildren and teachers, Clover Valley School, Lincoln County, Nevada, circa 1907-1909

Date

1907

Description

A group of Clover Valley, Nevada schoolchildren and teachers. Front row: Ivan Empey, Clair Terry, Horald Woods, Fred Woods, Grant Woods, Marion Terry. Second row: Albert Woods, Erma Woods, Elsie Empey, Inez Empey. Third Row: Lamar Empey, Ada Woods, Ione Terry, Mary Jensen (teacher), Orilla Woods, Lyman Woods. Seated: Lyman Lafayette Woods ("Grandpa Woods"), who was the maternal grandfather of Elbert Edwards. Albert, Ada, Orilla, Erma,Lyman and Horald Woods and Elsie and Ivan Empey were cousins of Maribah Woods Edwards (mother of Elbert Edwards). Ione and Marion Terry were Elbert Edwards' cousins.

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Photograph of Charlotte Terry, Roxa Terry and Lafeyette ("Lafey") Woods, April 1895

Date

1895-04

Description

Portrait of Elbert Edwards' maternal aunts, Charlotte Malinda Woods Terry and Roxa Jane Woods Terry and maternal uncle, Joseph Lafeyette Woods. Handwritten by Elbert Edwards on back of photograph: "Mama gave this to me March 26, 1937. It is Aunt Wolinda [sic] Woods Terry, Aunt Roxa Woods Terry, Uncle Lafey [Lafeyette] Woods. My mother was Maribah Woods. Her other brothers were Carlos, Lyman, James, Lamond, Jasper, Albert and Lafayette."

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Photograph of Virginia "Teddy" Fenton, Maurine Wilson, Hal Erickson, Anna Dean Kepper, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1975

Date

1975

Description

L-R: Boulder City (Nevada) News writer and local historian Virginia "Teddy" Fenton, Maurine Wilson, Hal Erickson, Anna Dean Kepper, at the Mormon Fort site in Las Vegas, Nevada. Site Name: Las Vegas Mormon Fort (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Photograph of Virginia "Teddy" Fenton, Maurine Wilson, Hal Erickson, Anna Dean Kepper, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1975

Date

1975

Description

L-R: Boulder City (Nevada) News writer and local historian Virginia "Teddy" Fenton with Maurine Wilson, UNLV Library Director Hal Erickson and curator and Las Vegas civic leader Anna Dean Kepper, at the Mormon Fort site in Las Vegas, Nevada. Site Name: Las Vegas Mormon Fort (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Photograph of Nevada Governor Robert List, Judith Eaton, and others, Las Vegas, circa December 1979

Date

1979-12

Description

Nevada Governor Robert List (second from left) preparing for the inauguration of Clark County Community College President Judith Eaton (2nd from right) with two unidentified people.

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Photograph of the Rose Garden Urban Renewal Project, North Las Vegas, circa 1970s

Date

1970 to 1979

Description

Rose Garden Urban Renewal Project, North Las Vegas, Nevada. Top two photos (left and right) show examples of what the area looked like before urban renewal. The photos in the middle and at the bottom show the area after renewal. The project, at Main Street and Las Vegas Boulevard, replaced acres of what used to be the most run-down portion of the city. Redevelopment took place in the 1970s. The Casa Rosa project shown in the photos is the first phase of the redevelopment program and consists of 101 units developed in the area of Yale and Tonopah Streets.

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