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Photograph of school children and teacher, Tonopah (Nev.), 1920-1950

Date

1920 to 1950

Description

Tonopah School's second grade class sits on the steps with their teacher, Miss Sullivan. Children within the three rows identified: "In first row: Willie Ryan, Thelma Flemming, Gertrude Stimson, Florence Ryan, Albert Wenzel, Willie O'Flarity, Geraldine Fitzgerald. In second row: Ruth Dunsdon, Evelyn Carlson, Dorothy Anderson, Edna Clary, Kathleen Griffin, Lawrence Metz, Bonnie McDonald, Tillie Evans, Thomas Lynch. In third row: Lillie McKay, Millie Truebey, Jack Howell, Ina Penaeu, Rose Wood, Thelma Rasmussen, Leonard Lyons, Ernest Rupy."

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Photograph of students and teachers outside of a school, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

School children and teachers pose outside a one-story wooden building identified as "the only school in Las Vegas at the time". The school building was moved by railroad from Rhyolite to the corner of 2nd Street and Lewis in Las Vegas. People identified in the photo are, beginning with front row, left to right: #1: sister of #5 (name unknown); #5: sister of #1 (name unknown); #7: Kessler ( Ernie May's sister); #9: Otto "Kelly" Westlake; #10: Ernie May; #29 Older son of Tom Squires; #38: Tom Lake; #40: Mrs. Palmer (teacher who ran the high school); #41: Mrs. Bartlet (teacher who ran the grammar school). Approximate date between 1905-1910.

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School picture at Beatty, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1938

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.B. Lisle Family. Back row, far left, Mr. Dees, teacher of Grades 5 through 8. Chloe Lisle, second from the left in the back row, taught grades 1 thought 4. Ert Moore, principal and high school teacher, is the bald- headed man standing next to Chloe Lisle. Robert Revert is the tall boy with glasses in the back row. Johnny Cobb is the tall boy next to Revert. In the front row at far left is Dewey Ishmael; Jack Crowell (blond-haired boy in the striped shirt) is sitting in the middle of the front row. Several Indian children attended the school. All others not identified. 

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Fifth Street Grammar School, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1959

Description

From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscription with image reads: "Old Fifth Street Grammar School. Built in 1935. Picture taken in 1959. Now annex for Clark County courthouse" - E(lizabeth) Harrington. (Photo taken by Robert Harrington).

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Foothill High School oral history interviews

Identifier

OH-03595

Abstract

Oral history interviews with Foothill High School students conducted by Claytee D. White on March 24, 2009 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project.

Students from Foothill High School in Henderson, Nevada are interviewed in front of one another as part of a class by Claytee D. White. Those interviewed include Shardé Smith, Evan Roquemore, Whitney Welch, RosAnne Ritchie, and Lindsay Gingrich. Claytee D. White is also interviewed by unnamed students. Each participant talks about their life, what brought them to live in Las Vegas, details of where they may have lived previously, and their interests and hobbies.

Archival Collection

Photograph of Las Vegas High School Rhythmettes practicing routines, Las Vegas, 1964

Date

1964

Description

The Las Vegas High School Rhythmettes practicing a routine on the law at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The text printed on the photo reads: "Buy-a-mile!"

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Photograph of Boulder City Elementary School, Boulder City, Nevada, October 5, 1932

Date

1932-10-05

Description

Black and white image of the first eighth grade class of Boulder City Elementary School, currently the home of City Hall, located at 401 California Avenue in Boulder City. The principal of the school, Miss Leila Tilley, is visible in the back of the classroom behind the students.

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Las Vegas High School reunions

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Leslie H. Smith Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01057
Collection Name: Leslie H. Smith Papers
Box/Folder: N/A

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First grade pupils of 5th Street School: photograph

Date

1915 (year approximate)

Description

First grade pupils of 5th Street School, Las Vegas, approximately 1915. (Arthur Gregory pictured.) l-r, back row 1. Francis Gaulke 2. Dorothy Farnsworth 11. Margaret Moffet. Middle row 3. George Frazier 4. Grant Ely 7. Jack Lidel 8. Majnard Pollock 9. J. B. Crow; front row 2. Franklin Fell 3. Jackie Von Tobel 4. Arthur "Art" Walker Gregory 5. Edward Von Tobel Jr.

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#68553: Adopt-A-School rally at Paradise Elementary School on April 13, 2012, 2012 April 13

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00388-05
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

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