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Power lines near Apex looking towards Las Vegas Valley, North Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-06-02

Description

Power lines carry electricity from power generation stations in the Apex Industrial Park in North Las Vegas towards the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

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Film transparency of El Rancho Vegas, Las Vegas, 1940s-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

Exterior night view of El Rancho Vegas, Las Vegas, 1940s-1950s.

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Early Las Vegas road: photograph

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 1930 (year approximate)

Description

Photograph of Early Las Vegas depicting a road lined with buildings. A coffee house is on the right and a tailor shop is on the left.

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Photograph of Las Vegas, Nevada, 1905

Date

1905

Description

Panoramic photograph of downtown Las Vegas Nevada, showing railroad tracks, the railyard, businesses (some in tents) and residential homes.

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Letter from Bertha Witmer (Las Vegas) to Mayor J. L. Russell and the City Council (Las Vegas), July 24, 1939

Date

1939-07-24

Description

Letter from a citizen to the Las Vegas City Commission protesting Ordinance No. 247. Left to Right: Asst. Commissioner of Reclamation N. B. Bennett, Jr., Master of Ceremonies; U.S. Senator Alan Bible; Regional Director A.B. West of the Bureau of Reclamation's Region 3. Handwritten text, transcribed by cataloger. Also, J. L. Russell was Mayor of Las Vegas at that time.

Text

Hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada for reference for "Vegas Vanitas" series, 1999

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Robert Beckmann Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00381
Collection Name: Robert Beckmann Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 09

Archival Component

Dean Martin Drive near the Las Vegas Stadium site pre-construction, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-05-10

Description

Dean Martin drive curves near the Las Vegas Stadium project site roughly bordered by the thoroughfare and Russel Road, Polaris, and West Hacienda Avenues. Planned as the future home of the Las Vegas Raiders, the site features close proximity to the Las Vegas Strip.

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Dean Martin Drive near the Las Vegas Stadium site pre-construction, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-05-10

Description

Dean Martin drive curves near the Las Vegas Stadium project site roughly bordered by the thoroughfare and Russel Road, Polaris, and West Hacienda Avenues. Planned as the future home of the Las Vegas Raiders, the site features close proximity to the Las Vegas Strip.

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A conversation with Mike Leven, president and COO of Las Vegas Sands and Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands at Artemus Ham Hall on May 5, 2014: digital photographs

Date

2014-05-05

Description

Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05). Client: Robyn Hadden, College of Hotel Administration

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Local photographer John Locher, right, of the Associated Press, works at the 1 October memorial located at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, looking west-southwest in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-10-06

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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