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Photograph of Wing Fong, Lilly Fong, and Hau Pei-Jen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1982

Date

1982

Description

L to R: Hau Pei-Jen, Wing Fong and Lilly Fong. Pei-Jen is an internationally known artist, six of his paintings hang in Artemus Ham Hall. They were purchased (under terms of a grant) from the Fongs.

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Photographic slide of a man in Clark County, Nevada, circa 1963-1964

Date

1963 (year approximate) to 1964 (year approximate)

Description

An unidentified man at a Clark County, Nevada archaeological site.

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Photograph of Cy E. Johnson, Goldfield, Nevada, 1906

Date

1900 to 1930

Description

A portrait of Cy E. Johnson taken after he returned from a prospecting trip in Death Valley.

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Photograph of Jack Higgins, Nevada, circa 1940s

Date

1940 to 1949

Description

A side portrait of Jack Higgins studying paperwork in Nevada. Higgins was a former barber in Boulder City, Nevada barber, and a former Nevada legislator.

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Photograph of commencement for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1981

Date

1981

Description

A picture of the commencement ceremony for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Pictured here is speaker Frank Waters.

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Photograph of commencement for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1979

Date

1975 to 1979

Description

A picture of the commencement ceremony at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Pictured here are Mahlon Brown (left) and Brock Dixon (right).

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Photograph of irrigated farmland on the T & T Ranch, Nevada, circa 1953

Date

1953 (year approximate)

Description

Irrigating new alfalfa on the T & T Ranch in the Amargosa Valley.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Irrigated land newly planted in alfalfa. T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, Ca. 1954."

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Photograph of Chief Tecopa, Pahrump, Nevada, circa 1880s-1890s

Date

1880 to 1899

Archival Collection

Description

Chief Tecopa, location unknown. Chief Tacopa, leader of the Souther Paiute tribe, was born in Pahrump in 1815 and died in Pahnrump between 1904-1906. He is interred in the Chief Tecopa Cemetery, located on East Street next to the library Pahrump, Nevada. The photograph was most likely taken in Pahrump, Nevada.

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Photograph of the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Nevada (now First Interstate Bank of Nevada), 1969

Date

1969

Description

The Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Nevada (now First Interstate Bank of Nevada) gathered for a meeting at an unknown location. Seated left to right are: E. H. Fitz, Ernest Martinelli, Gordon B. Harris, James Cashman, Jr., William Laub, Jr., Arthur M. Smith Jr. Standing left to right are: Roy Young, C. E. Helgren, Norman Brown, Neil Plath, Herbert E. Grier, Paul Garwood, F. Lorin Ronnow, Robert Griffith, Gaylord K. Prather, Ernest Maupin, Sr.

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Photograph of a cemetery in Hiko, Nevada, circa 1920s

Date

1920 to 1929

Description

Two unidentified men in a cemetery in Hiko, Nevada.

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