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The Nevada Club in Reno, Nevada: postcard

Date

1956-12-23

Description

From Harvey's Hotel and Casino Postcard Collection (PH-00367). The Nevada Club in Reno, Nevada. The postcard is inscribed to Miss Sherrill Ann Stolts from her Grandma on August 14, 1952.

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Postcard showing Searchlight, Nevada, circa 1930s

Date

1930 to 1939

Archival Collection

Description

The view of Duplex Mine in Searchlight, Nevada. Founded in 1897, Searchlight is an old boomtown that was made popular when George Frederick Colton discovered gold at the location where the town is now built. At the Duplex mine discovered in 1898, a windowed building lies to to left of some machinery used for mining. Transcribed across the bottom of the image: "Duplex Mine, Searchlight, Nev. Original Discovery 1898." The Frasher's Foto logo is printed on the bottom right corner.

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Emma and William N. Schuyler (left) and Jack and Caroline Heaton in Denver, Colorado. Caroline is Emma’s sister (Caroline Schaefle) and was prominent in the Las Vegas real estate market in 1930s and 1940s: photographic print, approximately 1900

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Schuyler Family Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00038
Collection Name: Schuyler Family Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

Archival Component

Equal Rights Nevada Collection

Identifier

MS-00607

Abstract

The Equal Rights Nevada (2000-2002) collection is comprised of organizational records documenting the group’s unsuccessful fight against Question 2, a referendum voted upon in 2000 and 2002 to amend Nevada’s state constitution to forbid same-sex marriage. It includes campaign files, financial records, publicity, correspondence, ephemera, and other supporting documentation from national and regional marriage equality organizations.

Archival Collection

The Nevada Club in Laughlin, Nevada: postcard

Date

1940 (year approximate) to 1990 (year approximate)

Description

From the Harvey's Hotel and Casino Postcard Collection (PH-00367) -- The Nevada Club in Laughlin, Nevada. Across the Colorado River from Bullhead City, Arizona is the site of many casinos which provide free ferry boat rides.

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Tonopah, Nevada: photograph

Date

1905

Description

Tonopah, NV. (1905) 3 n.g. Tonopah trains at left (center). Stamps on the back of the photo read: "Mallory Hope Ferrell P. O. Box 2837 Peachtree City, GA 30269." and "Publication of this photo must give credit line to the Wyoming State Archives, Museums, and Historical Department."

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Nevada land papers

Date

1909-03 to 1909-06

Archival Collection

Description

This folder is from "Legal Records" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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Plat of Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada, circa 1905

Date

1903 to 1907

Description

Plat of properties in downtown Tonopah, Nevada. Notes handwritten in pencil. Southern Nevada Mining Map Collection

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Aid for AIDS of Nevada brochure

Date

2006 (year approximate) to 2009 (year approximate)

Description

From the Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada (MS-00802) -- Alphabetical research files -- AIDS: Organizations: Aid for AIDS of Nevada (AFAN) file.

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