Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 2841 - 2850 of 576754

Photograph of a nuclear bomb blast near Frenchman Flats, Nevada, 1957

Date

1957

Archival Collection

Description

An image of a mushroom cloud resulting from above-ground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Image

City of Las Vegas, Nevada Records

Identifier

MS-00674

Abstract

The City of Las Vegas, Nevada records contain petitions, reports, civil service rules, a municipal court system proposal, management studies for fiscal policies and arrangements, a law enforcement joint venture program, an area study for a new post office, infrastructure plans, the 1935 City Charter, Board of Commissioners reports, elected official records, and recall petitions for Mayor J. F. Hesse. Records date from 1927 to 1982.

Archival Collection

Aid for AIDS of Nevada letter to Las Vegas Bugle editor about 1998 AIDS Walk

Date

1998-04-10

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.

Text

Beatty, Nevada, looking to the northwest: photographic print

Date

1920 (year approximate) to 1929 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. The large building on the far right housed the Palmer Store. The white building with many windows is the California Hotel. The large with building left of the California Hotel is the Exchange Club.

Image

Southern Nevada Photo Album, image 124

Description

128.1 Mt. Charleston resort, 40 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada; 128.2 On road to Mt. Charleston Resort.

Views of Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1999-05-08

Description

From the Nevada Mining Photograph Collection (PH-00361) -- Written on the photograph, " Goldfield, Nev. Larson pho. Palmn studio."

Views of Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1999-05-08

Description

From the Nevada Mining Photograph Collection (PH-00361) -- Individuals spot near or on a train. Border around the photograph is damaged.

Sketch map of Nevada and the southeastern portion of California, 1906

Date

1906

Description

42 x 29 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Copyright held by George S. Clason. "Compliments of the Patrick Investment Co. ... Denver, Colorado." Includes index. Shows railroad routes. "We have offices, representatives and properties in every camp marked in red on this map." Original publisher: Clason Map Co..

Image

Postcard with illustrations of attractions in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, captioned "Greetings from Las Vegas, Nevada," 1950s-1960s

Date

1950 to 1969

Description

Illustrations of attractions in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, shown in cut-out letters. Caption: "Greetings from Las Vegas, Nevada." On back: "SJK2658." Illustrations include casinos on Fremont Street, Lake Mead, and the Little Church of the West.

Image

Slide of a wooden cross near the Nevada Test Site, 1984

Date

1984

Description

Colors image of a wooden cross used by the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group demonstrating against nuclear testing.

Image