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View of SPRR Engine: photographic print

Date

1870 (year approximate) to 1979 (year approximate)

Description

From the KLVX Steamboats on the Colorado Photograph Collection (PH-00156). "COPY 45411 Reproduction from the Original in the Arizona Historical Society" stamp on verso.

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Postcard of Twenty Mule Team, Death Valley (Calif.), 1920-1935

Date

1920 to 1935

Archival Collection

Description

A handwritten inscription on the front of the postcard reads: "Twenty Mule Team Crossing Death Valley in the Eighties." These types of postcards were created by a company called The Teich Company, owned by Curt Teich. It was once world's largest printer of advertising postcards.

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Photograph of Western Pacific railroad, Santa Rosa, California, September 22, 1939

Date

1939-09-22

Archival Collection

Description

Transcribed from behind photograph, "Las Vegas and Tonopah no. 8 on North Western pacific in Santa Rosa, California, September 22, 1939."

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Telegram from W. H. Comstock to F. M. Grace, May 15, 1905

Date

1905-05-15

Archival Collection

Description

Comstock asks how sales at the Las Vegas townsite are going.

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Photograph of land auction re-enactment, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 15, 1980

Date

1980-05-15

Description

Part of crowd awaiting arrival of steam train for land auction reenactment. Celebration of Diamond Jubilee (75th anniversary) of City of Las Vegas.

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Norma Cleveland Morrison oral history interview, approximately 2012 to 2013

Level of Description

File

Scope and Contents

Morrison moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1953 and was employed as a nurse. She became a head nurse of the emergency departments of Memorial Hospital and Valley Hospital. In the 1970s she pursued certifications in CPR training and taught until her retirement in 1987.

Archival Collection

History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: OH-00000
Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

Archival Component

Mike Sullivan oral history interview, approximately 2012 to 2013

Level of Description

File

Scope and Contents

Sullivan is the director of the Eureka County volunteer ambulance service, a post he has held since 2006. A native of Reno, Nevada, Sullivan received EMT training and worked as an ambulance operator in Tonopah and Pahrump before arriving in his current job.

Archival Collection

History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: OH-00000
Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

Archival Component

Photograph of packtrains and buggies crossing desert, Tonopah (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

Unknown year in the decade of the 1900s

Description

Photograph of packtrains and buggies crossing desert, Tonopah (Nev.), early 1900s

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Interview with Gary Hallmark, June 24, 2005

Date

2005-06-24

Description

Narrator affiliation: Electrician, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo)

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