Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 1781 - 1790 of 58387

Julie Menard oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01282

Archival Collection

Photograph of Fleming Ballew Hubbard and others, Canon City, Colorado, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1939

Description

Fleming Ballew Hubbard and other members of the J. C. Penney Group in Canon City, Colorado. F. B. Hubbard can be seen standing in the center of the second row.

Image

Postcard of a Virignia &Truckee Railroad train in snow, Virginia City, Nevada, January 18, 1916

Date

1916-01-18

Description

A Virginia &Truckee Railroad train with a snow plow on the front of the engine, in a snow-covered railyard in Virginia City, Nevada. Caption: "V. & T. Express, Virginia City, Nevada. Jan 15-1916."

Image

Caesars Boardwalk Regency, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Nat Hart Professional Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00419
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Slide of Petroglyphs on a rock, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 2000s

Date

unspecified year in 200X (year approximate)

Description

Petroglyphs in the Boulder City Dry Fall Area. The exact location is unknown, but the location is possibly in Keyhole Canyon. Petroglyphs are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images. Petroglyphs are found world-wide, and are often associated with prehistoric peoples. The word comes from the Greek words petro-, theme of the word "petra" meaning "stone", and glyphein meaning "to carve", and was originally coined in French as pétroglyphe. The term petroglyph should not be confused with petrograph, which is an image drawn or painted on a rock face. Both types of image belong to the wider and more general category of rock art or parietal art. Petroforms, or patterns and shapes made by many large rocks and boulders over the ground, are also quite different. Inukshuks are also uni

Image

Nevada Legislature in Carson City, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1923

Description

From the Albert S. Henderson Photograph Collection (PH-00317).

Image

Two houses in Virginia City, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1954

Description

From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240)

Image

House and hillside, Virginia City, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1954

Description

From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240)

Image

House and a tree, Virgina City, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1956

Description

From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240)

Image

Fourth Ward School in Virginia City, Nevada: postcard

Date

1975 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240)

Image