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Photograph of Sammy Davis, Jr. talking on the telephone
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Archival Collection
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Black and white phtoograph of Sammy Davis, Jr. talking on the telephone in a dressing room. Stamped on back: Las Vegas News Bureau Las Vegas, Nev. - P.O. Box 28 Photographers Don English, Joe Buck, Jerry Abbott, Milt Palmer.
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Photograph of faculty members at the Universtiy of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1983
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Archival Collection
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Handwritten description provided on back of image: "Lilly Fong Excellence in Teaching 4th Annual Award; Second place presented to: Rudolph Johnson, Physical Education, 1983. L-R: Rudolph Johnson, Dean Richard Kunkel (College of Education), Regent Lilly Fong."
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Photograph of Johnny Carson, Las Vegas, December 30, 1981
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Archival Collection
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Close-up of Orville Knighton Reed: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Known to all in Nye County, Nevada, as O.K. Reed. Knighton was his mother’s maiden name. Reed came to the Tonopah area in 1900.
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Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining
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The Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining (approximately 1900-1955) document Brooks' time working in the mining and railroad industries in central and southern Nevada, as well as in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Brooks worked as a mining engineer and executive in many Nevada mining districts, including Goldfield, Tonopah, Bullfrog, Rawhide, Chloride, Beatty, Wonder, and Searchlight. The collection consists of photographs, photograph albums, ledgers and mining certificates, correspondence, and publications that all relate to mining. Notable figures mentioned in material throughout the collection include George Nixon, George Wingfield, William MacMaster, and James Butler.
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