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Storm clouds over Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2016-12-16

Description

Storm clouds hover ominously above the Las Vegas Strip obscuring the Spring Mountain range to the west.

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Pedestrian and automobile traffic on the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-02-28

Description

Providing security and access to both automobile and pedestrian traffic is handled differently along Las Vegas Boulevard and has changed over the years on the Strip. Here tourist utilize a spacious sidewalk in front of the Paris Las Vegas hotel and casino as the Bellagio is seen in the background.

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Las Vegas High School Reunion Biography Collection

Identifier

MS-01021

Abstract

The Las Vegas High School Reunion Biography Collection (1983) consists of class rosters, biographies of graduates, and photocopies of original programs from the four graduating classes of 1933 to 1936. The information specific to each year is compiled into its own handmade scrapbook. The materials were created for the 50th reunion of the class of 1933, and the event also included the classes of 1934, 1935, and 1936.

Archival Collection

Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. H. Dentner (Las Vegas), March 26, 1923

Date

1924-05-10

Archival Collection

Description

A letter to the Las Vegas mayor and city commissioners explaining that the water company wasn't interested in expanding their water system because of problems they had experienced the previous summer.

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Hazy Las Vegas skyline view, North Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2016-10-18

Description

A view of the Las Vegas skyline on a hazy day as seen from the eastern end of East Charleston Road.

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Letter from G. J. Sylvain, M. D. (Las Vegas) to Mr. Folger (Las Vegas), March 28, 1949

Date

1949-03-28

Archival Collection

Description

The County Department of Health was going to add oil to the effluent to kill mosquitos, and asked the Las Vegas Land and Water Company to report excess oil running onto their land.

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Film transparency of Las Vegas labor union officials, Las Vegas, 1930

Date

1930

Description

Las Vegas labor union officials, in charge of Labor Day celebrations, in Las Vegas, Nevada. From left to right, the men pictured include Martin Connell, James Farndale, William Gore, Robert H. Elser, Ira Liebert, Charles Watkins, and Eddie Bruner.

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Photograph of Las Vegas Ranch landscape, Las Vegas (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

Unknown year in the century of the 1900s

Description

Two unidentified people walk along the grounds of the Las Vegas Ranch. [Image taken in the early 1900s]

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Photograph of filming of "Viva Las Vegas," Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1963-1964

Date

1963 to 1964

Description

A crowd watches nighttime filming of the motion picture "Viva Las Vegas" in a parking lot outside of the Sands Hotel.

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Pedestrian bridge on the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-04-25

Description

Pedestrians use the walkway between The Cosmopolitan and Planet Hollywood hotel and casinos. Raising pedestrian traffic above The Strip has made it easier for auto traffic on Las Vegas Boulevard. It has also created a space for street performers and homeless to congregate.

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