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Postcard showing Scotty's Castle and Death Valley Scotty, Death Valley, California, circa mid 1900s

Date

1920 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

An image composed of Scotty's Castle, Death Valley Scotty, and a stone covered in petroglyphs. Located within the far northern region of Death Valley in Grapevine Canyon, the Death Valley Ranch, more commonly known as Scotty's Castle, is a prime example of Spanish-Mediterranean styling during the Roaring 1920s and Depression of the 1930s. Death Valley Scotty was a prospector, performer, and con man who was made famous by his scams involving gold mining near Death Valley. The petroglyph-covered rock beside Death Valley Scotty was designed by Native Americans who inhabited the valley hundreds of years ago. Transcribed across the bottom of the image: "The world's most hospitable host, Death Valley Scotty," Scotty's Castle, Death Valley, Calif."

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Home Notes: the Ideal Paper for the Ideal Home, vol. 525, no. 1626. London: Newnes & Pearson Publishing Co., 1925 March 07

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Item

Archival Collection

Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
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Collection Number: MS-01144
Collection Name: Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
Box/Folder: Box 30

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People picnicking in the desert. Handwritten inscription given with photograph: "Aunt Alma, Earl, Mother, Floyd, Bessie, Alley Lawson": photographic print, approximately 1915 to 1925

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Item

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Leon Rockwell Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00008
Collection Name: Leon Rockwell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 10

Archival Component

Postcard of Queen of Hearts playing card with a beach scene as the background, Atlantic City (N.J.), approximately 1900s-1980s

Date

1900 to 1989

Description

A postcard illustrating the queen of hearts with a beach scene and a resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey in the center of the card.

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Map of Las Vegas Rancho, Lincoln County, Nevada, September 15, 1904

Date

1904-09-15

Description

'Being part of Township 20 S. R.61 E. MT. D. B.&.M, containing 1864.49 acres. Division engineer's office at the front, AMB, September 15th, 1904. A.L. Jones, Division Engineer. Surveyed by W.G. Watson, Assistant Engineer. Dwg. 30296.' Includes traverse table. Shows land owned by the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, its right of way and the right of way for the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad, land owned by the Las Vegas Land & Water Company including Clark's Las Vegas Townsite with the Bucks Addition and the Wardie Addition, and parcels sold from the Las Vegas Land & Water Company land. Scale: [1:9,600]. 1 in. to 800 feet. Library's copies 1 and 4 have land owned by the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad hand-colored in pink and the rest of the Las Vegas Rancho not owned by the Las Vegas Land & Water Company hand-colored in green. Library's copy 2 has buildings of the Stewart Ranch drawn in and labeled in pencil. Library's copy 3 has addition and subtraction problems in pencil on the verso. Library's copy 4 has "Original purchase--1864.49 acres R.R.C. + L.V.L. + W. Co.--In colors." written in pencil on the verso followed by "(1904)" in red pencil. Library's copy 4 also has label on verson made of brown paper with "No 5 Las Vegas Ranch being part township ( 1904)" typed on it.

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Photograph of Julia Russell, Mrs. Worrell, Grace Worrell, Olive Lake, and Wanda Bell, circa 1900s-1930s

Date

1900 to 1930

Description

Black and white image of women including Julia Russell, Mrs. Worrell, Grace Worrell, Olive Lake, and Wanda Ball. Grace Worrell was a Sunday School Teacher.

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Film transparency of the girls basketball team for Clark County High School, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1920

Description

Black and white image of the girls basketball team for Clark County High School playing a game of basketball, per the handwritten description above the image. Note: Image is from a family photo album that was loaned to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and returned to the family on July 17, 1984.

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Unidentified man with dog wearing a pack, labeled "Goldfields' Lighting Express in the early days": postcard, approximately 1900-1905

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Item

Archival Collection

C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00350
Collection Name: C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 03

Archival Component

Portrait of Death Valley Scotty, labeled "Scotty the Desert Mystery." There is a handwritten message on back: postcard, approximately 1900-1905

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Item

Archival Collection

C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00350
Collection Name: C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 04

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Unidentified man posing with two burros, labeled "When Shall We meet Again": postcard, approximately 1900-1910

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Item

Archival Collection

C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00350
Collection Name: C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 04

Archival Component