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The Brass Rail in Virginia City, Nevada: postcard

Date

1940 (year approximate) to 1990 (year approximate)

Description

From the Harvey's Hotel and Casino Postcard Collection (PH-00367) -- Inscription with image says, "The Brass Rail has the oldest roulette wheel in Nevada with slot machines and other gaming for your pleasure. Beautifying their back bar is a lovely collection of gold and ruby glasses over 200 years old, and some artifacts of the early days in Virginia City."

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Photograph of Kiernan School, Lincoln County, Nevada, 1938

Date

1938

Description

Kiernan School, Lincoln County, Nevada. (Possibly a double exposure with another building.)

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Paseo Verde Drive, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2018-02-03

Description

Green Valley Ranch boasts a walkable, park and trail filled neighborhood feel even as Paseo Verde Parkway seen here at Desert Shadow Trail is a major thoroughfare serving its neighborhoods in Henderson, Nevada.

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Slide of the MGM Grand, Reno, Nevada, circa 1980s

Date

1980 to 1989

Description

Night view of the MGM Grand in Reno, Nevada. Officially opened in May of 1978, the MGM Grand has been changed and remodeled into multiple other casinos, including the Bally's Reno, then the Reno Hilton, and finally the 2011 Grand Sierra Resort and Casino (GSR). Site Name: MGM Grand (Reno. Nev.)

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Lenten Desert Experience, Police protestors on Good Friday, Nevada Test Site, Nevada: photographic slide

Date

1982-04-09

Description

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352).

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View of Cathedral Rock at Mount Charleston, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1964-05

Description

From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171)

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Overview of Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1937 (year approximate) to 1949 (year approximate)

Description

From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171)

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Postcard of scenes in central Nevada, circa 1927-1930s

Date

1927 to 1939

Description

A picture postcard with photographs with the captions "Badger hole;" "Electric Gold Mines, Weepah, Nevada;" "Crowd looking at rich strike;" "Town of Weepah, Nevada where rich gold strike was made;" "Frank Horton, Geo. Wingfield;" "The rich strike;" "Traynor and Horton, boys who found the gold." Leonard Traynor and Frank Horton, Jr., found gold ore in Weepah, Nevada in early spring 1927; George Wingfield was a prominent banker and miner in Nevada in the early decades of the twentieth century. The "badger hole" was where Traynor and Horton reportedly made their first gold strike.

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Photograph of the Valley of Fire, Nevada, circa 1920s-1930s

Date

1920 to 1939

Archival Collection

Description

The Stocker family car parked in the Valley of Fire located fifty miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Slide of Hawthorne Casino, Hawthorne, Nevada, 1986

Date

1986

Description

A color image featuring the front exterior and neon sign for the Hawthorne Casino.

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