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John G. (Jack) Fogliani Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00136

Abstract

The John G. (Jack) Fogliani Photograph Collection is comprised of two black-and-white photographic reprints created between approximately 1971 and 2004 of the natural landscape of Eagle Valley, Nevada. The original photographs were taken between approximately 1900 and 1920.

Archival Collection

Rocha, Fernando, 1994-

Coming from Durango and Tijuana, Mexico, Fernando Rocha’s parents met in Los Angeles in the mid-90s. Working in the sheet metal industry, his father’s career would take them to Las Vegas during the boom of the early 2000s to the slot machine industry where they would establish their family in Sunrise Manor. Little did he know that his son would later become a corporate banker working alongside the same industry with Wells Fargo.

Person

Film transparency of the Rotary Club at the Hoover Dam Decennial, October 1946

Date

1946-10

Archival Collection

Description

A black and white image of several unidentified men and women associated with the Rotary Club attending the Boulder Dam decennial (officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947).

Image

Film transparency of the Rotary Club during lunch, Hoover Dam, October 1946

Date

1946-10

Archival Collection

Description

An image of Rotary Club members attending a lunch near Boulde Dam (officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947). Three unidentified men stand beside each other eating food and wearing chef hats.

Image

Sons of the American Legion Drum & Bugle Corps: photographic print

Date

1930 (year approximate) to 1940 (year approximate)

Description

From the Tom and Erma Godbey Photograph Collection (PH-00262) -- Written on the back of the photo: "Color bearers - dressed as West Point Cadets - others had Fin (?) sons of Legion helmets & balaroes (sp?) with Boulder Dam emblem on black-white-gold stripes sides of pants."

Image

Horse and rider statue in front of the entrance to "Old Nevada": photographic print

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 1999 (year approximate)

Description

From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). Located on Boulder Highway between Henderson and Boulder Highway.

Image

View of Bruce Beckley, Sid Whitmore, Art Wells, and Erle A. Taylor (identified from left to right): photographic print

Date

1968 (year approximate) to 1972 (year approximate)

Description

From the Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection (PH-00237)

Image

Photograph of Pueblo Grand de Nevada, circa mid to late 1920s

Date

1925 to 1929

Description

Description given with photograph: "A close-up view of the ancient metate, or grinding stone, located at the Southern end of the Pueblo Grande de Nevada. Fragments of pottery and stone grinders or pestles [sic] in view."

Image

Photograph of Western Airlines M2, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1926

Date

1926

Description

Western Airlines M2 biplane-first plane to fly Los Angeles-Salt Lake route, stopping in Las Vegas en route. Note Indian head on fuselage-first insignia of Western Airlines (originally called Western Air Express Corporation).

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