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Accredited Law School Library Minimum Collection and Estimated Start Up Costs report
Date
1979-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
Folder contains a report titled "Accredited Law School Library Approved by American Bar Association and Association of American Law Schools: Minimum Collection and Estimated Start Up Costs" prepared for Lilly Fong, University of Nevada Regent, By Katherine Henderson, Clark County Law Library Director. From the University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law Records (UA-00048).
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Map showing plan for water quality management update for wastewater collection systems in the Las Vegas Valley, February 20, 1997
Date
1997-02-20
Description
'Plate 1. Source: Clark County Geographic Information Systems Central Repository. Comprehensive Planning, Advanced Planning Division. Feburary 20, 1997.' Scale [ca. 1:95, 040. 1 in.=approx. 1.5 miles]. Shows sewers, force mains, service area boundaries, watershed boundaries, and lift stations. Includes inset location map. Includes township and range grid. Clark County, Nevada, Comprehensive Planning, Advanced Planning Division.
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Doll collection: photographic print
Date
1967-07-29
Archival Collection
Description
Rhyolite, NV. Dolls from Mrs. Herschel Heisler's collection. Typewritten on photo sleeve: "OLDER THAN RHYOLITE are these beautiful dolls from Mrs. Herschel's Heisler's collection; they are more than 100 years old. Mrs. Heisler (left) was a teacher in Georgia beore coming to Rhyolite to live eight years ago." [N[evada] T[est] S[ite] News March 15, 1963 p. 4]
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University Libraries Special Collections reception: photographic print
Date
1990-06-21
Archival Collection
Description
From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248) -- Beda Cornwall reception held at University Libraries Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Standing from left to right: Blanche Zucker, Beda Cornwall, Seymour Newmark, Florence Mlynarczyk, Melina Cristostomo, and Shirley Allison.
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University Libraries Special Collections Reception: photographic print
Date
1990-08-06
Archival Collection
Description
From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248) -- Beda Cornwall reception held at University Libraries Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Former members of the Citizens' Library Association seated from left to right: J. A. Tiberti, Nellie Bunch, Beda Cornwall, Laura Belle Kelch, Sherwin "Scoop" Garside, Clarabelle Decker , Harold Erickson, and Anna Dean Kepper.
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Photograph of UNLV Special Collections, July 29, 1987
Date
1987-07-29
Archival Collection
Description
Description provided with image: "L-R Mary Lou Williams, sister of the late Nanelia Doughty; Norton Williams; Susan Jarvis, Special Collections Librarian. The occasion is donation of papers of the late Nan Doughty to UNLV Special Collections. July 29, 1987." Another description provided on an accompanying sheet of paper: "[July 29, 1987, L-R: Mary Lou Williams; Norton Williams; Susan Jarvis]. Currently being processed, the Nan Doughty Collection, donated by her sister, Mary Lou Williams, contains a century's worth of correspondence from the Bradford-Shockley family. The Bradords and Shockleys were intimately involved in mining and land development in Nevada, New Mexico, California, and Oregon, and had been New England shipbuilders in the early 19th century. May Bradford Shockley was the United States' first female surveyor: her letters detail life in Tonopah, Nevada in the early 1900s. her husband, mining engineer William Shockley, traveled the world, and his correspondence describes, among other places, life in and around Candelaria, Nevada in the 1880s. The collection also includes hundreds of early Nevada photographers, mining documents, and maps."
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William Harrah's automobile collection: photographic print
Date
1975
Description
From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240)
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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 Phyillis Durham in Special Collections, Las Vegas, September 1972
Date
1972-09
Archival Collection
Description
Phyillis Durham in Special Collections Department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Library. Hand written description provided on back of image: "Taken 9/72 - Special Collections Rm. UNLV Library, with display from Menu Collection."
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University Libraries Special Collections Reception: photographic print
Date
1990-11-22
Archival Collection
Description
From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248). Reception held at University Libraries Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Anna Dean Kepper stands in the center of the photograph.
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