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Tourists and cars on the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2017-02-28
Archival Collection
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. This busy stretch near Bally's hotel and casino is an example of how fencing and traditional sidewalks move tourists while keeping automobile traffic flowing.
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Pedestrian traffic on Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2017-04-12
Archival Collection
Description
Tourists cross an entranceway to the Mirage Hotel and Casino. Pedestrian overpasses have become a popular way of keeping tourists safe and traffic flowing on the Strip, but their expense and footprint make them difficult for all locations. Moving pedestrians along the Strip safely has become a major effort over the years.
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Photograph of Virginia Page, Miss Las Vegas, Sands Hotel, June 2, 1957
Date
1957-06-02
Archival Collection
Description
Nineteen year old Virginia Page from Brighton, England, winner of Meet Me In Las Vegas contest. Page, as Miss Las Vegas, won a trip to Las Vegas for a week starting June 2, 1957. She is pictured here with an unidentified group of women (possibly Copa Girls) at a table.
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Photograph of Virginia Page, Miss Las Vegas, Sands Hotel, June 2, 1957
Date
1957-06-02
Archival Collection
Description
Nineteen year old Virginia Page from Brighton, England, winner of Meet Me In Las Vegas contest. Page, as Miss Las Vegas, won a trip to Las Vegas for a week starting June 2, 1957. She is pictured here standing at the base of a plane flanked by two unidentified people.
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Photograph of Virginia Page, Miss Las Vegas, Sands Hotel, June 2, 1957
Date
1957-06-02
Archival Collection
Description
Nineteen year old Virginia Page from Brighton, England, winner of Meet Me In Las Vegas contest. Page, as Miss Las Vegas, won a trip to Las Vegas for a week starting June 2, 1957. She can be seen here posing in a bathing suit sitting on the edge of a fountain.
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Photograph of construction at the Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company, Goldfield, Nevada, circa 1907-1908
Date
1907 to 1908
Archival Collection
Description
The Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company under construction in Goldfield, Nevada. The mining company was formed in 1907 and the mill was constructed late in the year and began processing ore in early 1908. The company was formed by George Nixon and George Wingfield. The mill continued running until 1918 when the company ceased operation.
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Photograph of a billboard advertisement for "Lawrence of Arabia," Las Vegas (Nev.), 1962
Date
1962
Archival Collection
Description
The front of the Fremont Theatre with a sign at the top of the building advertising "Lawrence of Arabia." The sign reads: "Academy Award Winner 'Best Picture of the Year' 'Lawrence of Arabia' opens May 29th Guild Theatre." Site Name: Fremont Theatre (Las Vegas, Nev.) Street Address: Fremont Street
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Photograph of Balinese dancer Ni Gusti Raka at the Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1952
Date
1952
Archival Collection
Description
Ni Gusti Raka, a member of the Island of Bali Dancers, wearing traditional Legong dance costume. Raka was approximately 12 years old when this photograph was taken at the Hotel Thunderbird in Las Vegas, Nevada, where the dancers were performing. Site Name: Thunderbird Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.)
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Photograph of Dorothy and Bell on United Nations Day, Las Vegas (Nev.), October 24, 1961
Date
1961-10-24
Archival Collection
Description
Dorothy Dorothy and Lt. Governor Rex Bell sit together at a booth holding a sign that says "United Nations Day October 24" in Las Vegas. Behind them are miniature flags of the different nations part of the U.N. Rex Bell died less than a year after this photo was taken.
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Map of California, with territories of Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, 1864
Date
1864
Description
40 x 62 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Page numbers at top: 58-59. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864 by A. J. Johnson in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Original publisher: Johnson and Ward.
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