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Photograph of University of Nevada, Las Vegas, circa 1980s

Date

1980 to 1989

Description

An aerial view of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) campus, looking south.

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Photograph of Camp Butler, Tonopah, Nevada, January 1901

Date

1901-01

Description

A small mining camp established by Jim Butler near the mountains in Tonopah, Nevada.

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William Kissam Vanderbilt, Nevada assemblyman: photographic print

Date

1980

Description

William Kissam Vanderbilt, former state assembleyman from Las Vegas, Nevada

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Nevada State Protection of Marriage Initiative Collection

Identifier

MS-00527

Abstract

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.

Archival Collection

Geologic map of the Quartet Dome quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada, 1966

Date

1966

Description

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.

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Film transparency of Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1931-circa 1940s

Date

1931 (year uncertain; year approximate) to Unknown year in the decade of the 1940s

Archival Collection

Description

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.

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Mining operation in the vicinity of Beatty, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1956-05

Description

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.

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Slide of a wooden cross near the Nevada Test Site, May 8, 1984

Date

1984-05-08

Description

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.

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Photographic slide of geological sites in Pershing County, Nevada, circa early 1960s

Date

1960 (year approximate) to 1963 (year approximate)

Description

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."

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Photographic slide of geological sites in Pershing County, Nevada, circa early 1960s

Date

1960 (year approximate) to 1963 (year approximate)

Description

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."

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