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Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) Sign Graveyard, 1986
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Materials contain photographic slides from 1986 of the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) "sign graveyard" in Las Vegas, Nevada, where retired neon signs were collected. YESCO is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah and specializes in making custom neon signs.
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Collection Name: Neon in Nevada Photograph Collection
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Damaged Royal Nevada sign at a neon sign boneyard: photographic print
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Slide of neon signs at the YESCO sign graveyard, Sparks, Nevada, 1986
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Slide of neon signs at the YESCO sign graveyard, Sparks, Nevada, 1986
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Slide of neon signs at the YESCO sign graveyard, Sparks, Nevada, 1986
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Signs, check-in ceiling sign, 2006
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Collection Name: Stardust Resort and Casino Records
Box/Folder: Box 111
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Casino signs: Brilliant Signs, 1994
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Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Regional History Files
Box/Folder: Box 08
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Letters: signed and co-signed, 1988
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Collection Name: Senator Chic Hecht Political Papers
Box/Folder: Box 098
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Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) Corporate Records
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The Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) Corporate Records (1914-2000) document the history of the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) and is comprised of photographs of sign production and finished signs, negatives, slides, transparencies, anniversary scrapbooks, and videotapes. The collection also contains meeting minutes, correspondence, price books, drawings, calculations, newspaper and trade magazine articles on YESCO, advertising materials, and oral history interviews and audio recordings of YESCO designers and executives. YESCO is responsible for many of the neon signs in and around Las Vegas, Nevada and Reno, Nevada, as well as other Western states.
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