The Harry Floyd Alter Photograph Collection (1905-1916) is comprised of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives. The images depict scenes in Las Vegas, Nevada, including the Las Vegas Ranch, the Arizona Club, and baseball teams and fields. Also included are images of Harry Floyd Alter and his friends.
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The John Steiger Photograph Collection contains black-and-white photographic prints of H. E. Steiger, John Steiger's father, in and around Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1920s. Images depict H. E. Steiger and various other identified and unidentified individuals in various locations surrounding Las Vegas, including Wilson Ranch, Mount Charleston, and Boulder Canyon. Some images of the Las Vegas Grammar School include John Steiger's mother, who was an elementary school teacher in Las Vegas from 1919 to 1920. The majority of items in this collection are digital surrogates, and the donor retains the original items.
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The Billie Mae Polson Photograph Collection, approximately 1948 to 1978, consists of fifty-one color postcards from Las Vegas, Nevada, the Hoover Dam, and surrounding areas. Also included in the collection are original black-and-white and color photographs of the Valley of Fire Nevada State Park, an Easter parade in Las Vegas, and the Las Vegas 5th Street School prior to demolition. There are also ten negatives included in this collection that correspond with select postcards and the photographs from the Valley of Fire Nevada State Park.
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The KLVX Steamboats on the Colorado Photograph Collection contains photographic prints and negatives used by the Las Vegas, Nevada television station KLVX (Channel 10) for a documentary on steamboats in the Southwest United States between approximately 1870 and 1979. KLVX made this documentary for the Arizona American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and the Nevada American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, who jointly funded the documentary’s production. Some of these photographs may be reproductions of originals gathered during the research for the documentary.
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The Elizabeth Gemmell Frizzell Photograph Collection, approximately 1982 to 2015, contains black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of depicting life at the Prince Mine in Pioche, Nevada. Images portray Tom Wah and his wife Gue Gim Wah posing in front of the one-room school house where Tom served meals and lived for a short time prior to purchasing the mine store. Images are reproductions created between 1982 and 2020 of scenes from approximately 1920 to 1939.
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The Dunes Hotel Photographs (1950-1993) consist of administrative, publicity and entertainment images documenting the history of the Dunes Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to materials focusing on day-to-day activities at the hotel (correspondence, contracts, personnel, budgets, etc.) the collection provides insight into the hotel’s entertainment and public relations activities. Although there are chronological gaps in the collection, particularly during the later years of the Dunes (1970s-1990s), it provides a significant amount of historical documentation on the famed Strip hotel that was long known to tourists and residents alike as the “the Miracle in the Desert.”
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The UNLV University Libraries Collection of Aerial Photographs (1943-1998) contains aerial photographic prints primarily of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, as well as other locations outside of Las Vegas including Laughlin, Nevada and Arizona.
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The J. Ross Clark Photograph Collection (approximately 1900-1920) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and some corresponding negatives. Images depict J. Ross Clark, his wife Miriam Evans Clark, their grandson James Ross Clark II, and several unidentified individuals.
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The Dolores Brownhofer Neonis Photograph Collection (approximately 1940-1970) contains photographic prints, negatives, and a slide depicting the Brownhofer family at restaurants, bars, and casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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The Marian Honeycutt Photograph Collection (1963-1969) is comprised of snapshots taken of famous Las Vegas landmarks in the 1960s. Among the landmarks depicted are: the Golden Nugget, the Golden Slipper, the Desert Inn Hotel, and the Sahara Hotel. Some of the snapshots were taken from the interior of a vehicle.
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