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Youth Conservation Corps building at the Corn Creek Field Station in Nevada: photographic print
Date
1972 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). Located about 4.5 miles from Tonopah Highway at the Corn Creek Field Station. This photo shows the front of the building. Photo by Dave E. Morelli. (Photos 0171 0071 through 0171 0779 taken from Historic Building Survey Project of the YCC Hut done by Dave Morelli for Dr. Ralph Roske's Nevada History Class-Call # F849 L35 M69.)
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Photograph of a man and boy at a desk in the Delamar Lode newspaper office, Delamar (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1898 to 1906
Archival Collection
Description
The Delamar Lode newspaper printing office during the letterpress era. Cast metal sorts, used to construct words for the paper, are in the background at the right. Examples of articles are posted on the wall in the upper left corner. This photograph is attributed to the Fred Steen Collection in Stanley W. Paher's book, Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps, page 300. Mr. Steen, who lived in Delamar around the time of this photograph, moved with his family to Tonopah where he later worked as a mining bookkeeper.
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The Wheel of Rotary Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, February 16, 1950
Date
1950-02-16
Archival Collection
Description
Newsletter issued by the Las Vegas Rotary Club
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Photographs of Dave Roberts, image 01
Date
1964-05
Description
Dave Roberts posing in front of a wooden fence.
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Photographs of Dave Roberts, image 02
Date
1964-05
Description
Dave Roberts posing in front of a truck and house.
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Photograph of mining operations, Goldfield (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of mining operations, Goldfield (Nev.), 1900-1925
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Coons, David, 1939-1989
Radio reporter and Nevada history enthusiast David Coons was born on September 25, 1939 in Lebanon, Indiana, but he spent most of his life in Las Vegas, Nevada. He graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1958 before studying broadcasting in Los Angeles, California. Coons, a longtime member of the Nevada Historical Society, was especially interested in railroads, and he collected memorabilia and ephemera from railroads in the American Southwest. Coons died in 1983 in Las Vegas.
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