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Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt helps Nevada National Guardsmen cut a cake, 1967 November 23

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Eileen Brookman Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00303
Collection Name: Eileen Brookman Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 02

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Neea'le Point Mountain, 6-Mile Canyon between Carson City, Nevada and Dayton, Nevada, 1941

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Mary Griffith Toleno Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00021
Collection Name: Mary Griffith Toleno Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02

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Potential Effects of Climate Change on Streamflow Eastern and Western Slopes of the Sierra Nevada, California and Nevada, 1996

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David Donovan Collection on Hydrology and Geology
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Collection Number: MS-00813
Collection Name: David Donovan Collection on Hydrology and Geology
Box/Folder: Box 23

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Film transparency of Jean Ford and others during a trip throughout Nevada by the Nevada Federation of Women's Clubs to testify on child abuse prevention legislation

Date

1984 to 1985

Description

Nevada Senator Jean Ford (center, wearing glasses) and others entering a building during a trip throughout Nevada by the Nevada Federation of Women's Clubs to testify on child abuse prevention legislation.

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Postcard of scenes in central Nevada, circa 1927-1930s

Date

1927 to 1939

Description

A picture postcard with photographs with the captions "Badger hole;" "Electric Gold Mines, Weepah, Nevada;" "Crowd looking at rich strike;" "Town of Weepah, Nevada where rich gold strike was made;" "Frank Horton, Geo. Wingfield;" "The rich strike;" "Traynor and Horton, boys who found the gold." Leonard Traynor and Frank Horton, Jr., found gold ore in Weepah, Nevada in early spring 1927; George Wingfield was a prominent banker and miner in Nevada in the early decades of the twentieth century. The "badger hole" was where Traynor and Horton reportedly made their first gold strike.

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Photograph of farmland on the T & T Ranch, Nevada, circa 1953

Date

1953 (year approximate)

Description

Men irrigating new alfalfa on the T & T Ranch in the Amargosa Valley.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Irrigating land newly planted in alfalfa, T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, about 1952 or 1954. Gordon Bettles is pictured with the shovel. The child pictured in the foreground is a niece of Bob Fishel and Betty Lou Kemp, daughter of M.P. Gless' Glessner. Note the profile of the sleeping old man silhouetted along the crest of the Funeral Mountains."

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Two unidentified women standing next to the "Pioneer Women of Nevada" poster at the Nevada Women's Conference, 1977

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Jean Ford Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00295
Collection Name: Jean Ford Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01

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Ken and Harriet Klent at the Nevada Club of Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print, approximately 1950 to 1969

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K. O. Knudson Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00108
Collection Name: K. O. Knudson Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01

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LVLWC 793 - Las Vegas, Nevada - covering amount received from State of Nevada for easement, 1954

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Union Pacific Railroad Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00397
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 28

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Black Canyon, southern Nevada, looking south from Nevada side: photographic print, approximately 1932

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Franklin M. Murphy Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00232
Collection Name: Franklin M. Murphy Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 03

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