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UNLV visiting professor Joshua Bonde is joined by Professor Stephen Rowland, alumna Margarita Rodriguez, as well as graduate and undergraduate students during a dig: digital photographs

Date

2014-03-20

Description

Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05). UNLV visiting professor Joshua Bonde is joined by Professor Stephen Rowland, alumna Margarita Rodriguez, as well as graduate and undergraduate students during a dig March 19-20, 2014 in an area dubbed The Sump in northern end of Fish Lake Valley near Dyer, NV. Organized to retrieve a previously identified 12-16 million year-old portion of a head initially identified as an early four tusk elephant type animal, the dig was conducted over spring break. Client: College of Sciences.

Image

Interior of the railroad depot at Rhyolite, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1950 to 1953

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.C. Revert Family. Mr. Heisler, who, with his wife, ran the depot for many years, and Art Revert is leaning on the back of the chair (identified from left to right).

Image

Report on water spreading in Clark County, Nevada as a means of controlling floods, May 9, 1949

Date

1949-05-09

Description

Report on the efficacy of water spreading to disperse flood water in Southern Nevada. Under the immediate Supervision of A. T. Mitchelson, State Project Supervisor. Prepared under the direction of George D. Clyde, Chief, Division of Irrigation and Water Conservation

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Wengert Family Photographs

Identifier

PH-00046

Abstract

The Wengert Family Photographs (1890-1966) depict the lives of the Wengert family. In addition are materials focusing on day-to-day activities such as holiday celebrations, family milestones, and some Southern Nevada Power Company employees. Although there are chronological gaps in the materials, particularly in the early years of Cyril and Lottie’s lives, the images provide historical documentation of this Las Vegas family.

Archival Collection

Emilio Muscelli oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01358

Abstract

Oral history interview with Emilio Muscelli conducted by Claytee D. White on November 25, 2008 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Muscelli discusses his life in Italy, coming to America in 1948, and working at the Copacabana nightclub in New York. He also discusses his boss there, Jack Entratter, who brought him to Las Vegas, Nevada when he opened the Sands Hotel and Casino in 1952. Muscelli then discusses working as a maitre d' for many years at the Sands and becoming friends with Bobby Darren, Cary Grant, and many other celebrities.

Archival Collection