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Messages, left as part of the 1 October memorial, cover a utility box near the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, looking west-southwest 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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Messages, left as part of the 1 October memorial, cover a landscaping rock near the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, looking north-northwest 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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A Red Cross worker views the crosses at the 1 October memorial located at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign with others, looking east-southeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-10-06

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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A man photographs the flowers, candles, and other items left at the 1 October memorial located at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, looking northeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-10-06

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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Rocks with victims' names and other items left at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign as part of the 1 October memorial, looking north-northwest 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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Angel cutouts decorate the trunk of a palm tree near the Welcome to Las Vegas sign as part of the 1 October memorial, looking north 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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A woman pauses while looking at items left at the 1 October memorial located at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, looking north-northwest 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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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Leonard L. Arnett (Las Vegas), June 20, 1935

Date

1935-06-20

Archival Collection

Description

Letter to the Mayor of Las Vegas reporting of output from the Las Vegas Springs and wells and consumption by Las Vegas residents.

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Photograph of Vegas Heights Elementary School, Las Vegas, 1946

Date

1946

Description

A flag raising ceremony at the Vegas Heights Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada. From left to right, people are identified as follows: Dolly Ruth Wheeler's son (with bugle); Billy (holding flag; the flag was donated in honor of his father, a WWII casualty); Dale, the soloist; Mrs. Wilson, Brownie Scout leader and Vice President of the P. T. A.; Mrs. Sellers, President of Vegas Heights P. T. A.; Miss Jane; Adams Ledbetter, Primary Supervisor; Miss Maude Frazier, Superintendent; Billy's widowed mother (dressed in all black); Edna Lundgren, 2nd & 3rd grade teacher; Roma Knight, Principal; and Brownie scouts.

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Map showing general plan for the district boundary of Lateral Sanitary Sewer District No. 1, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1928

Date

1925 to 1932

Description

' Webster L. Benham, consuting engineer.' 'Sheet 1 of 13.' Scale [ca. 1:3,600. 1 inch to approximately 300 feet]. Blueprint. Plat map. Library's copy has various areas colored in with red pencil. City of Las Vegas.

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