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Items, including a ti leaf lei from Hawaii, left at the 1 October memorial located at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, looking south-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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Photograph of El Rancho Vegas Hotel, Las Vegas (Nev.), June 17, 1960

Date

1960-06-17

Description

El Rancho restaurant on the day of fire. A fireman stands on the engine with the ladder pointing towards the hotel's roof. Site Name: El Rancho Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Coco at the Cave Nightclub in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints

Date

1994

Description

From the Las Vegas Bugle Photograph Collection on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (PH-00336). Cave nightclub - Images of "Coco", a drag performer. Located at 5740 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas.

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Photograph of the Las Vegas Strip, circa 1969

Date

1968 to 1970

Description

Las Vegas Strip looking south showing the Riviera, the Stardust, and the Frontier Hotel. Per patron comment, the photo may have been taking around 1969.
Site Name: Las Vegas Strip
Address: Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV

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Decorative rocks, flags, signs and other items sit near 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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Photograph of the view from the fifth floor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, October 4, 1991

Date

1991-10-04

Description

A view of Las Vegas from the Dean's office on the fifth floor during construction of the Rod Lee Bigelow Health Sciences (BHS) building.

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Photograph of Fremont Street, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date

1910 to 1939

Description

3rd and Fremont Street, Las Vegas.

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Photograph of Las Vegas High School Rhythmettes, Evelyn Stuckey, and Harry E. Jenks, Las Vegas, April 15, 1964

Date

1964-04-15

Description

Evelyn Stuckey (center left) welcomes her mother, Mrs. Harry E. Jenks of Miami, Florida, to Las Vegas. Mrs. Jenks arrived in time to see the 14th annual Rhythmette Revue. The Rhythmettes form a welcoming V as Mrs. Jenks steps from the plane at McCarran Field.

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Photograph of Riki Yarborough, Las Vegas, circa mid 1950s - early 1960s

Date

1955 to 1965

Archival Collection

Description

Riki Yarborough, the reservation manager at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Pedestrians cross Las Vegas Boulevard at Convention Center Drive with the Resorts World Las Vegas tower under construction in background, looking north-northwest in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2018-09-21

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo series documents ongoing construction work at the Resorts World Las Vegas site.

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