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Postcard showing the Winged Figures of the Republic at Hoover Dam, circa late 1930s
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Archival Collection
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Slide of Hoover Dam generators, circa late 1930s
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Archival Collection
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Postcard showing the Lake Mead boat landing at the Boulder Dam National Recreation Area, circa 1940
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Archival Collection
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Postcard depicting the boat landing at Hemenway Wash on Lake Mead
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from front of postcard: "Lake Mead Boat Landing, Boulder Dam, near Boulder City, Nevada. Boulder Dam National Recreational Area"
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Howard Cannon and Dr. Richard Carlson of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Young girl, possibly one of the Denton daughters, posed in front of house for the first day of school: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Provost's office staff, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, September 2004
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Archival Collection
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Dwight Chambers oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Dwight Chambers conducted by Janet Ann Jack on February 26, 1981 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Chambers discusses working in numerous Las Vegas, Nevada’s hotel-casinos including Caesar’s Palace, hotel administrations’ connections with the mafia, and plans for expanding the Landmark Hotel.
Archival Collection
Transcript of interview with Guy Hamblin by Barry Merrell, February 22, 1975
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Archival Collection
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On February 22, 1975, Barry Merrell interviewed former railroad worker Guy Hamblin (born 1896 in Clover Valley, Nevada) in his home at 4306 Kay Place, Las Vegas, Nevada about the history of Southern Nevada. Specifically, the two discuss Hamblin moving from different towns in Nevada before settling down in Southern Nevada, viewing the above-ground atomic bomb tests, early Fremont Street, and his work on the railroad. In addition, Hamblin also discusses the demographic and economic changes that he has seen in Las Vegas.
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Robert Woodruff Photograph Collection
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The Robert Woodruff Photograph Collection (1900s-1970s) consists of ninety-seven black-and-white photographs of locations and events in Clark County, Nevada. Locations include Las Vegas, Henderson, and Searchlight, Nevada, as well as the Hoover Dam. The majority of the images were taken between 1934 and 1962.
Archival Collection