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Virginia Lelake Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00244

Abstract

The Virginia Lelake Photograph Collection (approximately 1952-1979) is comprised of thirty-eight black-and-white photographic prints depicting floats and performers at the Helldorado Parade in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Archival Collection

Revert Family Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00314

Abstract

The Revert Family Photograph Collection, approximately 1900 to 1920, consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives depicting landscape scenes of central and southern Nevada, Arizona, and southern California. The majority of images were taken from Albert and Henrietta Bucking Revert’s touring car.

Archival Collection

KLVX Steamboats on the Colorado Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00156

Abstract

The KLVX Steamboats on the Colorado Photograph Collection contains photographic prints and negatives used by the Las Vegas, Nevada television station KLVX (Channel 10) for a documentary on steamboats in the Southwest United States between approximately 1870 and 1979. KLVX made this documentary for the Arizona American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and the Nevada American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, who jointly funded the documentary’s production. Some of these photographs may be reproductions of originals gathered during the research for the documentary.

Archival Collection

Hikers at the Historic Railroad Trail, Lake Mead, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-03-26

Description

Hikers walk along a ridge near the Historic Railroad Trail in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Image

Peggie Kaltenborn Gambarana Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00257

Abstract

The Peggie Kaltenborn Gambarana Photograph Collection consists of color photographic prints from approximately 1970 to 1979. The images are portraits of Robert J. Kaltenborn, Peggie Kaltenborn Gambarana, and Eddie Gambarana.

Archival Collection

Eileen Margaret Green Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00229

Abstract

The Eileen Margaret Green Photograph Collection (approximately 1987) consists of photographs and a negative of rock art sites in Southern Nevada taken by Eileen Margaret Green, a former anthropology student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Eileen used the photographs in her 1987 master’s thesis, “A Cultural Ecological Approach to the Rock Art of Southern Nevada.”

Archival Collection

Sands Hotel Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00287

Abstract

The Sands Hotel Photograph Collection depicts entertainers, celebrities, events, amenities, and staff at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada from approximately 1952 to 1980. The photographs primarily depict entertainers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and the Copa Girls performing in the Copa Room, the showroom of the Sands Hotel. The photographs also depict patrons gambling, events held in the Sands Hotel's ballrooms, banquets, the pool, rooms in the hotel, as well as Jack Entratter, the hotel'’s director of entertainment.

Archival Collection

Mildred J. Heyer Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00199

Abstract

The Mildred J. Heyer Photograph Collection consists of four black-and-white photographic prints and negatives from approximately 1905 to 1940. The photographs depict early Las Vegas, Nevada street scenes, an irrigation pump, and Liberty’s Last Stand, a prominent saloon in Nevada during Prohibition.

Archival Collection

Wildflowers at the Historic Railroad Trail, Lake Mead, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-03-26

Description

Wildflowers growing along the Historic Railroad Trail in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area before the entrance to a tunnel.

Image

Nadine Tobin Collection of Helldorado Photographs

Identifier

PH-00107

Abstract

The Nadine Tobin Collection of Helldorado Photographs, approximately 1940 to 1959, contains black-and-white photographic prints depicting parade floats during Helldorado Days celebrations in Las Vegas, Nevada. Also included is one image of a primary school class in Las Vegas.

Archival Collection