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35 Years of Rotary in Las Vegas, 1923-1958

Date

1958

Archival Collection

Description

A history of the Las Vegas Rotary Club. 1923-1958

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Photograph of hotels on Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1966

Date

1965 to 1967

Description

Partial view of the Las Vegas Strip looking northeast from north of Desert Inn Road in Las Vegas, Nevada. The El Rancho Vegas, Riviera, La Concha, and El Morocco Motel are visible on the right side of the photograph. The Westward Ho, Denny's Restaurant, and Satellite Motel are visible on the left. The Sahara Hotel is seen in the distance.

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Film transparency of Las Vegas Fort, Las Vegas, 1930

Date

1930

Description

The Las Vegas Fort being renovated into a concrete/gravel testing laboratory for the Bureau of Reclamation in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Film transparency of Las Vegas Fort, Las Vegas, 1930

Date

1930

Description

The Las Vegas Fort being renovated into a concrete/gravel testing laboratory for the Bureau of Reclamation in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Film transparency of Las Vegas High School, Las Vegas, February 22, 1930

Date

1930-02-22

Description

Dignitaries standing on a platform at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the new Las Vegas High School in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Kenny Kerr, Las Vegas performer, Las Vegas performer in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints

Date

1995

Description

From the Las Vegas Bugle Photograph Collection on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (PH-00336). Kenny Kerr, Las Vegas performer - 1995.

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Landscaping at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden, looking east in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2019-03-04

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. Envisioned by activists and built by volunteers, the City of Las Vegas established the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden at 1015 S. Casino Center Boulevard to honor the victims and give family members and the community a place to gather to remember.

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Slide of Las Vegas Grammar School, Las Vegas, 1919

Date

1919

Description

An exterior view of the Las Vegas Grammar School, also known as the 5th Street School, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Junior League of Las Vegas Records

Identifier

MS-00179

Abstract

The Junior League of Las Vegas Records (1940-2023) contain annual reports, fundraising information, training manuals, articles, minutes, photographs, scrapbooks, cookbooks, and other operational and working files that document the activities of the Junior League of Las Vegas (JLLV). Also included is documentation for advocacy projects the JLLV was involved with, such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.), Safe Haven, the Ronald McDonald House, Read Aloud, and Literature Awareness Program for Children. Other records in this collection document JLLV's fundraising efforts such as the Repeat Boutique, Holiday Coffees, annual benefits, luncheons, and sales of their cookbooks. Also included are scrapbooks and issues of their newsletter The Sage.

Archival Collection

Photograph of Vegas Heights, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1964

Date

1964

Description

Balzar and Revere Streets in Vegas Heights where, at the time, there were no sewers or proper drainage. This lead to flooded streets during severe rainstorms.

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