Oversized postcard with aerial view of the Las Vegas Strip. Caption: "The fabulous Vegas Strip." On back: "P28950. Color by Stuart Griffith." Site Name: The Strip (Las Vegas, Nev.)
The Elizabeth von Till Warren Papers (1919-2021) series consists of correspondence, meeting agendas, reprints, photographs, financial records, reports, manuscript drafts, photographs, slides, and negatives pertaining to the academic career and professional work of Elizabeth von Till Warren. The series also contains organizational records from von Till Warren’s involvement with the Old Spanish Trail Association (OSTA), Goodsprings Citizens Advisory Council (GCAC), Goodsprings Historical Society (GHS), and Preservation Association of Clark County (PACC). Research files related to Nevada preservation efforts, site exhibits, and trail markers from locations such as Big Springs, the Old Mormon Fort, and Valley of Fire are represented. The series also contains research files from von Till Warren’s dissertation on the Las Vegas Springs, in addition to dissertation drafts.
Archival Collection
Elizabeth von Till and Claude N. Warren Professional Papers
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A group of protestors from the Lenten Desert Experience at the Federal Building in Las Vegas, protesting nuclear testing and the Nevada Test Site. January 27, 1986. (colored print available)
Black and white image of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of Interior, naming the Boulder Dam (name officially changed to Hoover Dam in 1947) at a ceremony celebrating the beginning of work on the Boulder Canyon Project and the beginning of the construction of Union Pacific Railroad from Boulder Junction (Bracken Junction) to the dam site.
Preliminary parking plan for the Sahara Hotel Convention Center from 1966. Printed on mylar. Berton Charles Severson, architect; Brian Walter Webb, architect; Milton R. Bertrand, delineator. Site Name: Sahara Hotel and Casino Address: 2535 Las Vegas Boulevard South
A large group of people seated around a table with Betty Hind, probably at the Congo Room in the Sahara hotel and casino. There is a date stamp on the back of the photo February 28th, 1953. Site Name: Sahara Hotel and Casino