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Merlino, James Donald "Jim", 1928-
Nye County, Nevada Sheriff who oversaw police activities at anti-nuclear protests at Nevada Test Site. See: http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-11/news/mn-4277_1_nevada-test-site
Date of birth: 11/25/1928
Place of birth: Wallace, Idaho
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Photograph of the New Frontier, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1940s
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Lake, Spud
Robert E. "Spud" Lake was a Las Vegas pioneer and civic developer for whom an elementary school was named. He was born in 1857 in Illinois. He married Mary Ellen Osborn in Missouri in 1885, and they moved to Ontario, Canada, before eventually settling in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1904. He started a barbershop for railroad workers and other settlers in the area. Lake participated in the land auction for the Las Vegas town site and purchased two parcels. The first school was built on one of his parcels; and he served as the first president of the school board, and later as a trustee.
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Don T. Walker Photograph Collection
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The Don T. Walker Photograph Collection (1900-1995) is comprised of black-and-white and color photographs taken by or belonging to Las Vegas photographer and Nevada historian Don Travis Walker. The photographs taken by Walker include ghost towns in Nevada, Arizona, and California, as well as a series on Phil Benson, editor and publisher of the Southern Nevada Times. Other items in the collection include photographs taken by other people related to the Moulin Rouge Hotel in Las Vegas, various photographs of historic sites in Nevada, and a program from the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society for its "Moulin Rouge: History in the Making" exhibition.
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Glendale Job Construction, image 002: photographic print
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Glendale Job Construction, image 003: photographic print
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Glendale Job Construction, image 005: photographic print
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Glendale Job Construction, image 006: photographic print
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Postcard of Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas (Nev.), June 27, 1981
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Photograph of construction of an unidentified hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, Nevada, circa 1960s
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