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Snick's Place bar painting being donated to the Nevada State Museum: digital image

Date

2014-12-07

Description

From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Notes from the donor, Dennis McBride: Snick's Place was a queer bar which stood at 1402 South Third Street [1976-2014] whose mascots were two pink elephants, celebrated in a painting which hung in the bar from 1992 until it was remodeled and renamed the Bastille in 2014. Bar owner Dominick Vitale donated the elephant painting to the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas. This series of photos documents removing the painting from the bar for delivery to the Nevada State Museum. Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: two unidentified movers

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Snick's Place bar painting being donated to the Nevada State Museum: digital image

Date

1976

Description

From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Notes from the donor, Dennis McBride: This is a photograph of the exterior of Snick's Place queer bar shortly after it opened in 1976. The automobile belongs to owner Ralph Vandersnick for whom the bar was named. At the time the bar opened, its address was 1402 South Fourth Street. The address was changed in the 1990s after substantial road work in the area eliminated Fourth Street at this location.

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Correspondence about "The Total Jewish Woman" symposium, item 01

Description

A mail-out invitation for "The Total Jewish Woman."

Report about flood control in Virgin and Moapa Valleys

Date

1938 to 1950

Description

Narrative that describes nineteen elements of the flood control program in the Virgin and Moapa Valleys.

Text

Be Mine Tonight: parts, approximately 1950 to 1967

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Russ Morgan Music Manuscripts
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00944
Collection Name: Russ Morgan Music Manuscripts
Box/Folder: Box 136

Archival Component

Aerial photograph of the Ed Von Tobel Lumber Company being constructed, Las Vegas, 1967

Date

1967

Description

This aerial, taken in 1967, shows the Ed Von Tobel Lumber Company under construction at 2655 Maryland parkway. The street at right is Karen Lane intersecting Maryland Parkway. Physical object has an insert containing additional biographical information.

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Slide of protesters being arrested at a demonstration held on Mother's Day near the Nevada Test Site, May 10, 1987

Date

1987-05-10

Description

Color image of protesters being arrested by police officers at a demonstration held by American Peace Test, a group opposed to nuclear testing.

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About Local 165: archived website, 2020 to 2021

Level of Description

Other Level

Archival Collection

UNLV Libraries Collection of Digital Communication about COVID-19 in Las Vegas
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01031
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Digital Communication about COVID-19 in Las Vegas
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Newspaper clippings about Hadassah luncheon and fashion show

Description

To Model Fashions, publication and date unknown