Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 1711 - 1720 of 4401

Photograph of Valerie Wiener at Louis Wiener Jr. Elementary School, Las Vegas (Nev.), late 1990s - early 2000s

Date

1996 to 2005

Description

During a visit to Louis Wiener Jr. Elementary School, Valerie Wiener talks with students about friendship choices and promises to be their friend and support them each day. She is wearing a school shirt.

Image

Photograph of Valerie Wiener and Larry Johnson, 1990

Date

1990

Description

Valerie Wiener celebrates a UNLV basketball victory with Larry Johnson in 1990. She served as the media coach for the UNLV Runnin? Rebels, including the 1989-1990 season when the team won the national championship.

Image

Photograph of Miranda Rosen in Washington, D. C., 2016

Date

2016

Description

Miranda Rosen, a mentee of Senator Valerie Wiener (retired), traveled to Washington, D.C., during her junior year at Princeton University in 2016, to demonstrate her support for women?s rights. The sign reads: "Women's rights are human rights."

Image

Photograph of "One Million B.C." movie scene, Valley of Fire (Nev.), 1936-1937

Date

1936 to 1937

Description

Four women in cavewoman costumes carry a dead animal through the desert during filming of the movie One Million B.C.

Image

Postcard of a tent store, Montezuma (Nev.), 1908

Date

1908

Description

Montezuma was the site of extensive mining activity from the 1860s-1880s but was dormant in the early 1900s when the Goldfield strike was made. According to the information painted on the front of the "Road House" of the "Montezuma Trading Company", the traveler or prospector could purchase "Wines & Liquors, Tobacco, Miners Supplies, Hay & Grain, and Groceries" at the store. Montezuma was located in the Montezuma Mountains seven miles west of Goldfield and was experiencing a resurgence precipitated by the discoveries at Goldfield.

Image

Photograph of Emblem Club members with proclamation, Las Vegas, October 7, 1977

Date

1977-10-07

Description

From left to right, Shireen Gonzales, President of North Las Vegas Emblem Club; LaVon Holmes, President of Henderson Emblem Club; Venita Berger, Supreme Marshall; and Dottie Camron, Supreme President, holding a proclamation from the City of North Las Vegas proclaiming National Emblem Club Week.

Image

Photograph of Major Riddle and others, North Las Vegas, circa 1960s

Date

1960 to 1969

Description

From left to right: a picture of Del Harrison, Major Riddle (Owner of the Silver Nugget Casino), and Paul May posing together.

Image

Photograph of a woman and child at Kiel Ranch, Las Vegas, circa 1930 to 1940s

Date

1930 to 1949

Description

Description provided with image: "Kiel (Kyle) Ranch-This water storage reservoir held water from artesian wells for irrigation of orchard and fields. Frank Allen grew melons on this ranch in the late 1930s. The woman and child pictured are not identified."

Image

Photograph of Marion Cahlan and others, Las Vegas, December 16, 1965

Date

1965-12-16

Description

Description provided with image: "John Cahlan (left) looks on as Marion Cahlan Principal Robert Pearce hangs a painting of Mr. Cahlan's mother, Marion E. Cahlan, for whom the school was named. The artist, Florence E. Conway, is second from left."

Image

Photograph of senior citizens displaying handmade items, Las Vegas, October 16, 1975

Date

1975-10-16

Description

Rose Garden senior citizens displaying handmade items for their crafts sale.

Image