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Photograph of Nevada Drug Pirates Little League team, Boulder City, Nevada, 1987

Date

1987

Description

The Nevada Drug Pirates Little League team posing for a picture in Boulder City, Nevada.

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Slide of Cactus Jack's Senator's Club sign, Carson City, Nevada, 1986

Date

1986

Description

A color image of the neon sign for Cactus Jack's Senator Casino, located in Carson City, Nevada. The illuminated, red sign has an outline of a man with a cowboy hat holding a sign that reads "Howdy."

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Photograph of the Queen Esther Class in Canon City, Colorado, November 2, 1939

Date

1939-11-02

Description

Queen Esther Class in Canon City. Ida M. Hubbard (Maurine's mother) is second row, 3rd from right.

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Photograph of Boulder Dam Hotel, Boulder City, Nevada, January 25, 1935

Date

1935-01-25

Description

The grayscale view of the the inner lobby of the Boulder Dam Hotel in Boulder City, Nevada. Various pieces of furniture can be seen throughout the lobby, along with a clock mounted on the back wall forever stopped at the time 4:33 PM.

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Film transparency showing street in Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1931-1940s

Date

1931 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

An image of a street in Boulder City; a Texaco gas station, a hardware store, a cafe, a drug store, an several other business establishments are pictured.

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Photograph of Squires family members and friends, Carson City, Nevada, 1947

Date

1947

Description

Identification given with photograph: "Squires family reunion at the C. C. Boyer home in Carson City. Front row: Mrs. Herbert A. Squires, with Kathleen (daughter of John Doherty); Mrs. C. C. (Florence Squires) Boyer, with Charla, daughter of Charles Doherty; Mrs. John H. Doherty with daughter, Susan; Mrs. Charles P. Squires."

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Film transparency of an airport and a Trans World Airlines terminal, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1930s

Date

1930 to 1939

Archival Collection

Description

The view of airplanes next to unidentified buildings at the Trans World Airlines (TWA) terminal in an unnamed airport in Boulder City, Nevada. One of America's oldest International Air Carriers (INAC) that was popular during the twentieth century, the Trans World Airlines was aided by aviator Charles Lindbergh in mapping out the company's early air routes, and so in the 1930s Trans World Airlines was also known as "The Lindbergh Line."

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Slide of Petroglyphs on a rock, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 2000s

Date

unspecified year in 200X (year approximate)

Description

Petroglyphs in the Boulder City Dry Fall Area. The exact location is unknown, but the location is possibly in Keyhole Canyon. Petroglyphs are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images. Petroglyphs are found world-wide, and are often associated with prehistoric peoples. The word comes from the Greek words petro-, theme of the word "petra" meaning "stone", and glyphein meaning "to carve", and was originally coined in French as pétroglyphe. The term petroglyph should not be confused with petrograph, which is an image drawn or painted on a rock face. Both types of image belong to the wider and more general category of rock art or parietal art. Petroforms, or patterns and shapes made by many large rocks and boulders over the ground, are also quite different. Inukshuks are also uni

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Nevada Legislature in Carson City, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1923

Description

From the Albert S. Henderson Photograph Collection (PH-00317).

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Two houses in Virginia City, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1954

Description

From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240)

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