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Photograph of Mayme Stocker at an unidentified women's event in Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1955-1965
Date
1955 to 1965
Archival Collection
Description
Mayme Stocker (third from left) at an unidentified women's event in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Photograph of Elton Garrett and students, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1940s
Date
Unknown year in the decade of the 1940s (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Elton Garrett [right] poses with students in front of a building in Boulder City. Note: Patron commented that Mary Jane Carter Smith of the Boulder City High School Class of 1943 identified the following individuals in this photograph: unnamed teacher, unknown male, Mary Robertson, Frank Shelton, Delores Brown, Bob Clark, Lola Dunbar, Elton Garrett (teacher). Also commented that the photograph was probably taken around 1942.
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Photograph of women in Special Collections, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, December 1975
Date
1975-12
Archival Collection
Description
Ruth Ferron, a Las Vegas pioneer, and her daughter Shirley Swanson are donating the Ferron-Bracken photo collection to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Special Collections. Ms. Kepper, Special Collections curator, looks on. Typed description provided with image: "Ferron-Bracken Photograph Collection - December 1975, L-R: Ruth Ferron; Anna Dean Kepper; Shirley Ferron Swanson. William and Ruth Ferron came to Las Vegas in 1916-1917 where William Ferron bought several drugstores. Already estabished as a prominent pharmacist and businessman, Ferron in 1920 was elected Las Vegas' third mayor. In 1975 his widow, Ruth, donated the Ferron-Bracken photographs. Containing several hundred photos dating from as early as 1903, these are among the oldest pictures of Las Vegas in existence."
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Photograph of Vassili Sulich and an unidentified female dancer posing in the southern Nevada desert, 1967
Date
1967
Archival Collection
Description
One of several photographs taken by Zoran Veljkovic of Vassili Sulich and an unidentified female dancer posing in the southern Nevada desert. These photos were printed with Sulich's poem "Concerto for a dead rose" in the March 1967 issue of Dance Magazine.
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Photograph of individuals at Special Collections, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, December 09, 1975
Date
1975-12-09
Archival Collection
Description
From left to right: William G. Price, Hal Erickson, and Barbara Price at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Mr. And Mrs. Price are donating a rare collection of photos of Hoover Dam taken by Mrs. Price's step-father, Ernest Mitchell Pratt.
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Photograph of Mayme Stocker in front of her house, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 13, 1947
Date
1947-08-13
Archival Collection
Description
Mayme Stocker in front of her home at 605 S. 3rd Street, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Photographic slide of Wuzzie George near Fallon, Churchill County, Nevada, November 28, 1958
Date
1958-11-28
Archival Collection
Description
Written on the slide: "Grimes petroglyph site (CH-3) near Fallon, Churchill County, Nevada. Wuzzie George"
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Photograph of an Indian woman making a basket, possibly Pahrump, Nevada, circa 1900s-1910s
Date
1900 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
Indian woman is making a basket, with a crying child in a cradleboard next to her. The shelter behind them is possibly a karnee dwelling. There is a metal pie plate on ground next to the woman. The photograph was possibly taken at Manse Ranch or Hidden Ranch Camp in Pahrump Valley, Nevada.
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Photograph of the June Taylor Dancers posing at the Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1949
Date
1947 to 1951
Archival Collection
Description
June Taylor Dancers pose on the diving board at the pool of the Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas. Nevada. (1949)
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Photograph of Carolyn Sparks at a University Library Society reception, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1991-1992
Date
1991 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
An unidentified man with University of Nevada Regent Carolyn Sparks at a University Library Society reception, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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