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Piles of items left at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign as part of the 1 October memorial, looking north-west in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-10-18

Description

Following the October 1, 2017 killing of 58 people at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, the Las Vegas community responded in a variety of ways. This series of photographs document the impromptu memorial created at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign.

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Signs attached to the fence are part of the 1 October memorial located at the Welcome to Las Vegas, looking north-northeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-10-18

Description

Following the October 1, 2017 killing of 58 people at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, the Las Vegas community responded in a variety of ways. This series of photographs document the impromptu memorial created at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign.

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Film transparency of Las Vegas High School, Las Vegas, 1930

Date

1930

Description

The Las Vegas High School under construction in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, 1977-1978

Date

1977 to 1978

Archival Collection

Description

Newsletter issued by the Las Vegas Rotary Club

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Map showing general geology and areas of artesian flow of the Las Vegas, Pahrump, and Indian Spring Valleys, Clark and Nye Counties, Nevada, 1946

Date

1947

Description

'United States Department of Interior, Geological Survey, Water Resources Bulletin No. 6.' 'State Engineer of Nevada.' Relief shown by contours. Includes township and range lines. Scale [ca. 1:126,720. 1 in.=approx. 2 miles]. Series: Water resources bulletin (Carson City, Nev.)no. 6. Originally published as plate 1 in Ground water in Las Vegas, Pahrump, and Indian Spring Valleys, Nevada : a summary / G. B. Maxey and T. W. Robinson, prepared in cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, and published as no. 6 of the Water resources bulletin.

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Map of the city of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, "the Strip," 1960

Date

1960

Description

1960 edition. 41 x 43 cm. Copyright held by Robert E. Barringer. Title in upper-right corner of map: Las Vegas area map. Irregularly-shaped map. Includes index, notes, list of Las Vegas schools and inset maps of East Las Vegas (Whitney) and Wherry housing area on Nellis Air Force Base. Original publisher: Redwood Publishing Co..

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The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, 1975

Date

1975

Archival Collection

Description

Newsletter issued by the Las Vegas Rotary Club, probably in 1975.

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Photograph of a guest room in the Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1974-1975

Date

1974 to 1975

Description

A woman poses in a guest room in the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Las Vegas High School Architectural Drawings

Identifier

MS-00925

Abstract

The Las Vegas High School architectural drawings include blueprints for various improvements, expansions, additions, and renovations performed for the Las Vegas, Nevada high school between 1929 and 1972. The architectural drawing sets include site plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, building component details, and structural drawings.

Archival Collection

Architectural drawings of residential home in Las Vegas, Nevada, exterior elevations, May 23, 1958

Date

1958-05-23

Description

Front, right, rear and left exterior elevations of a ranch-style residential home and detached garage in the Las Verdes Heights development in Las Vegas, Nevada. "Drawn by J.C.M. & P.J.C. Checked by E.C.B." "Sheet no. 8 of 25."
Site Name: Las Verdes Heights

Architecture Period: Mid-Century Modernist

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