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Cost estimate of a five room railroad employee's cottage at Las Vegas (Nev.), July 1,1909
Date
1909-07-01
Archival Collection
Description
Typed, itemized estimate of costs for a five room cottage to be built within Clark's Las Vegas Townsite. Document includes item description, material cost, labor cost and total costs for construction and freight. The railroad cottages were built by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company for employees of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad between 1909 and 1911.
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Letter from Frank R. McNamee to A. S. Halsted, July 2, 1922
Date
1922-07-02
Archival Collection
Description
Letter gives a report of an assault on a railroad employee by strikers. McNamee suggests railroad guards and officers should be armed.
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Lederer cartoon: postcard
Date
1900 (year approximate) to 1999 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). Postcard with gambling theme: caption- "Send Carlo and Fido at once! Met man who got $1,000.00 because he held a big dog, and a little dog last Night". (copyright 1905) Artist by name of Lederer (Charles Lederer).
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Lederer cartoon: postcard
Date
1900 (year approximate) to 1999 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). Postcard with gambling theme: caption-"Very little drunkenness here, yet regret to state that I saw a king full last night". (copyright 1905) Artist by name of Lederer (Charles Lederer).
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Postcard of Jessie Johnson Manor, Millers (Nev.), early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
A full-length portrait of Jessie Johnson Manor, Ruth Roark's grandmother, in Millers, Nevada. Handwritten description provided with image: "Eva this is not a good picture but the features are better. The wind was blowing so hard when it was taken. - postcard, Jesse Johnson Manor (Ruth Roark's grandmother), at Millers. NV. I.D. R. Roard 06/29/77."
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Postcard of Clarence Johnson, Josephine Gail Johnson, and Jesse Pearl Johnson, early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
A view of the Johnson Family, possibly in Nevada. From left to right, the people are identified as follows: Clarence Johnson, baby Josephine Gail Johnson (Foster), and Jessie Pearl Howard Johnson.
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Photograph of Jim Ladd and an unidentified man standing next to a buckboard wagon, Boulder City (Nev.), early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Jim Ladd and an unidentified man on the right, standing beside a buckboard.
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Photograph of Clara Trask and Emma Trask, (Nev.), early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Sitting from left to right is Clara Trask and Emma Yount. Clara Trask is also known as Clara Belle Trask Fayle Chilson and Emma Yount is also known as Emma Trask Ellis Smithson Yount.
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