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Requests from Residents and Business Owners to City Officials of Las Vegas, Nevada

MS-00049

Abstract

The Requests from Residents and Business Owners to City Officials of Las Vegas, Nevada (1940) consist of formal petitions which were filed with the City of Las Vegas Clerk, and letters to the Mayor and City Commissioners dating from February 1, 1940 to December 4, 1940. The petitions, including one from the Westside Improvement Association, requested infrastructure improvements and zoning restrictions, while others criticized city government actions related to maintenance of public areas and inaction on previous petitions. Additional requests addressed commercial and residential zoning enforcement and clarification regarding new construction.

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Postcard of Virginia City, Nevada, circa 1900s-1920s

Date

1900 to 1929

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Nevada Mining Photograph Collection

Description

A picture postcard of Virginia City, Nevada covered in snow. A message is written on the back stating that "there has been $700-000-000 gold and silver taken out of this camp."

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Rhythmettes new members, 1965 September 01

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Frank Mitrani Photographs

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Collection Number: PH-00332
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 38

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View of walls from a lost city: photographic print

Date

1910 (year approximate) to 1930 (year approximate)

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Chester Longwell Photograph Collection

Description

From the Chester R. Longwell Photograph Collection (PH-00311). Best walls uncovered at Lost City. N V-88.

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New homes on Cadence View Way, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-05-11

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UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada

Description

Recently finished three story homes along Cadence View Way in the Cadence development in Henderson. For decades the western neighborhoods of Henderson experienced explosive growth as the city moved from small industrial town clustered around the World War II era plants to Las Vegas suburbs and the state's second largest city. Cadence hopes to change that with its large masterplanned community north of East Lake Mead Parkway and Boulder Highway.

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