Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 5311 - 5320 of 575731

Southern Nevada Educators Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00185

Abstract

The Southern Nevada Educators Photograph Collection consists of reproduction black-and-white photographic prints and negatives that Donna Andress compiled. The majority of the images are portraits of educators in Southern Nevada, primarily educators who have schools in Clark County, Nevada named after them. Other portraits depict prominent Las Vegas citizens, including Leva and William Beckley.

Archival Collection

5th Street Grammar School in Las Vegas, Nevada: postcard

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 1999 (year approximate)

Description

From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). 5th street Grammar School, Las Vegas, Nevada. (postcard)

Image

Photograph of a young woman being coached at the Nevada Special Olympics, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, May 3, 1976

Date

1976-05-03

Description

A coach talks with a young woman in a wheelchair at the Nevada Special Olympics, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Site Name: Nellis Air Force Base (Nev.)

Image

Photograph of Hotel Nevada (Las Vegas), 1912

Date

1910 to 1915

Description

The Hotel Nevada on the corner of Main and Fremont in 1912. Transcribed from the original: "Nevada Hotel - named Sal Sagev much later --Shirley Swanson." Wharton Drug Company named in the bottom left-hand corner of the postcard.
Site Name: Hotel Nevada
Address: 1 Fremont Street

Image

Photograph of Nevada desert, circa 1940s

Date

1940 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

Collage of a mule in the Nevada desert. Possibly a postcard. Caption on the top reads: "O, Dont [sic] you remember the desert old pal, the desert with scenery like this, a Joshua Palm and a lonesome old Jack, the fortunes you dream of but miss." Caption on the bottom left reads: "40 miles from wood, 50 miles from water, 10 feet from hell, God bless our home."

Image

Photograph of test site in Nevada, Circa 1960

Date

1960

Description

Oversize color image of atomic bomb exploding at Nevada Test Site.

Image

Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, February 07, 2000

Date

2000-02-07

Description

Includes meeting minutes and agenda, along with additional information about bylaws and proposals for the Classified Staff Member Award.

Text

Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Nevada: photographic print

Date

1979 (year approximate)

Description

From the Historic Building Survey Photograph Collection (PH-00345). Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Nevada, view from Clark County Courthouse, 215 3rd Street, Las Vegas, Nevada. Stamped on the back of the photograph, "Photo by Ken Jones".

Image

Map showing right of way of toll road constructed by Nevada Rapid Transit Co. in Lincoln County (Nev.), 1905

Date

1905

Description

Scale [ca. 126,720]. 1 in.=2 miles 1 map : blueline print ; 49 x 74 cmScale [ca. 126,720]. 1 in.=2 miles ; 1 map : blueline print ; 49 x 74 cm ; Shows right of way of what now is Interstate 95 through what is now Clark County, Nevada ; "Aug. 10, 1905." ; "Adopted as toll road of Nevada Rapid Transit Company at meeting of Board of Directors of said company Aug. 25, 1905. Attest Wh. Comstock, secretary, J. Ross Clark, president." ; "Book I, page 3"--Lower right corner of map ; "[Illegible] recording [illegible] J. Ross Clark September 1st. A.D. 1905 at 40 [illegible] 8 A in book of platts [illegible] Henry Lee [illegible]"--Upper right portion of map

Image

Letter and envelope from John M Bunker, St. Thomas, Nevada to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada

Date

1894-08-27

Archival Collection

Description

From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, an envelope, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached.

Text