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Southern Nevada Home Builders Association Records

Identifier

MS-00894

Abstract

The Southern Nevada Home Builders Association (SNHBA) records represent the residential construction industry organization's activities from 1974 to 2015. The collection is primarily comprised of copies of SNHBA's newsletter, The Silver Spike, member directories, and event working files and photographs. The collection also includes working files for the awards presented by SNHBA to local home builders on excellence and design in home building: the Homer Awards and Silver Nugget Awards. Working files of SNHBA staff are also found in this collection for committee work, event planning, legislative issues, correspondence, and membership files.

Archival Collection

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Professional Staff Council Records

Identifier

UA-00091

Abstract

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Professional Staff Council Records (1983-1984) contains meeting agendas and minutes of the Professional Staff Council. Council members were elected representatives who shared professional staff opinions with campus administrators on matters such as pay, benefits, and general working conditions.

Archival Collection

Pyramid Lake, Nevada: drawing

Date

1970

Description

From the UNLV Special Collections Photograph Collection on Book Illustrations (PH-00170) -- Drawing of people camped at Pyramid Lake in Washoe County, Nevada. Handwritten on verso: "Jackson, Donald, and Mary Lee Spence, editors. Expeditions of John Charles Fremont. Vol. 1, Urbana, Chicago, and London: University of Chicago Press, 1970. p. 606." [MLA8 citation format]

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Architectural drawing of concert hall, Nevada Southern University, Las Vegas, Nevada, court elevation, 1968

Date

1968

Description

Court (east) elevation of concert hall (later named Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall) at Nevada Southern University, Las Vegas, Nevada (later the University of Nevada, Las Vegas).
Site Name: Nevada Southern University
Address: 4505 S. Maryland Parkway

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Early Nevada, 1852-1968

Level of Description

Series

Scope and Contents

Materials contain photographs of non-indigenous pioneers in Nevada, steamboats on the Colorado River, postcards, buildings, railroads, the University of Nevada, Reno, the Mormon Fort (the oldest non-indigenous settlement in the Las Vegas Valley), towns in Nevada, the Candelaria ruins, and schools around the state from 1852 to 1968.

Archival Collection

Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00214
Collection Name: Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Photograph of people on a stage wagon, Ely, Nevada, 1906

Date

1906

Description

People on a horse-drawn stage wagon that is traveling to Eureka, Nevada from Ely, Nevada.

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Ranch in Springdale, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1907 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.E. Lemmon Family. Subjects are not identified.

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Desert landscape in Nevada: photographic print

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 1930 (year approximate)

Description

Sagebrush and other shrubs somewhere in a Nevada desert.

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Postcard of Rhyolite, Nevada, circa 1920s

Date

1920 to 1929

Description

The deserted 'ghost city' of the desert in Rhyolite, Nevada

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Film transparency of downtown and the Nevada Highway, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1932-1940

Date

1932 to 1940

Archival Collection

Description

A view of downtown Boulder City and the Nevada Highway. The Boulder City Fire Department building is standing on the left side of the road, while the Terminal Building that includes the Union Bus Terminal service and Boulder Cafe is standing on the right. At the end of the street lies the Bureau of Reclamation Administration building.

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