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Nevada Test Site, image 003: photographic print

Date

1970-10-08

Description

Nevada Test Site (Miscellaneous). 1928 Buick. Typewritten on photo sleeve: "In 1928, this Buick was an elegant automobile." [Caption in N[evada] T[est] S[ite] News January 24, 1964 p.5]]

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Slide of protesters demonstrating near the Nevada Test Site, April 1986

Date

1986-04

Description

Color image of a crowd of protesters with the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group demonstrating against nuclear testing. One is holding a wooden cross.

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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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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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Photographic slide of Christopher Dove and Don Dancer in Pershing County, Nevada, circa 1950s-1960s

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1969 (year approximate)

Description

Two men leaning against a blue truck with "Nevada State Museum" written on the door. Written on the slide: "Christopher (Kit) Dove, Don Dancer at site 26-Pe-67. Pershing Co., Nevada."

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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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Photograph of the Crystal Palace Gambling Hall/Hotel marquee in Laughlin, Nevada, 1986

Date

1986

Description

The Crystal Palace Gambling Hall/Hotel marquee in Laughlin, Nevada, 1986. A signs for the Pioneer, Edgewater, and Regency Casinos are visible in the background.

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Photographic slide of Charles Rozaire and Don Dancer in Pershing County, Nevada, circa 1950s-1960s

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1969 (year approximate)

Description

Written on the slide: "Charles Rozaire, Don Dancer at site 26-Pe-67. Pershing Co., Nevada."

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Film transparency of Lake Tahoe, Nevada, circa 1940s

Date

1940 to 1949

Description

A view of Lake Tahoe, Nevada, as seen through a stand of trees. A small marina with a few boats in the slips is visible in the foreground.

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Exterior view of MGM Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1979 (year approximate) to 1980 (year approximate)

Description

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

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