The Nevada State Protection of Marriage Initiative Collection (2000) consists of Clark County, Nevada petition signatures in favor of the initiative to exclude gay and lesbian Nevadans from marriage. The "Protection of Marriage Initiative" was also known as Question Two on the ballot. Much of this material is photocopied from the Nevada State Archives and contains pages from Clark County, including Boulder City, as well as notable Southern Nevada signatures.
58 x 46 cm., on sheet 88 x 85 cm., folded in envelope 30 x 24 cm. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Contour interval 20 feet." "Base by U.S. Geological Survey, 1962, 10,000-foot grid based on Nevada coordinate system, central zone." "Geology mapped in 1962-63." Includes 2 col. cross sections, diagrammetric stratigraphic section, quadrangle location map, and text. "Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission." Original publisher: Interior, Geological Survey, Series: Geologic quadrangle map GQ, Scale: 1:24 000.
An image of Arizona Street (pointing northeast) in Boulder City. From this view point, may different city shops are visible, such as a Shell gas station, the Visitors Bureau, and the Nava-Hopi Trading Post, as well as a sign directing visitors to the nearby Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam Visitors Bureau was originally known as the Boulder Dam Tourist Service Bureau, as the dam's name officially changed in 1947.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.C. Revert Family. Photograph appeared in conjunction with an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine.
Colors image of a wooden cross placed in the ground by the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group protesting nuclear testing.
Written on the slide: "Looking east down Santa Clara Creek. Sites Pe-69, 68, 67, (at tree) on left, sites Pe-74, 73, 72, 70, 71 on right. Pershing County Nevada."
Written on the slide: "Looking east down Santa Clara Creek. Sites Pe-69, 68, 67, (at tree) on left, sites Pe-74, 73, 72, 70, 71 on right. Pershing County Nevada."