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Diving grandmother at the Sands Hotel: photographs
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Archival Collection
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Series I. General
Sands Hotel and Casino
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Sands Hotel Turkey Trot photographs
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Archival Collection
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Series I. General
Sands Hotel and Casino
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Tonopah, Nevada Mining Town Photograph Album
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The Tonopah, Nevada Mining Town Photograph Album (approximately 1908) consists of twenty-two photographs in a leather-bound album. The photographs depict businesses, townspeople, street scenes, and mining operations in Tonopah, Nevada and the surrounding areas of Goldfield, Nevada and Mina, Nevada. Also included are photographs of a fire on May 12, 1908 that destroyed a block of commercial buildings in Tonopah, which were taken by local photographer E. W. Smith., and views of the downtown area both before and after the fire.
Archival Collection
Billie Mae Polson Photograph Collection
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The Billie Mae Polson Photograph Collection, approximately 1948 to 1978, consists of fifty-one color postcards from Las Vegas, Nevada, the Hoover Dam, and surrounding areas. Also included in the collection are original black-and-white and color photographs of the Valley of Fire Nevada State Park, an Easter parade in Las Vegas, and the Las Vegas 5th Street School prior to demolition. There are also ten negatives included in this collection that correspond with select postcards and the photographs from the Valley of Fire Nevada State Park.
Archival Collection
Photograph of unknown woman: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute
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Navy Mothers' Club Photograph Collection
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The Navy Mothers' Club Photograph Collection is comprised of two black-and-white photographic prints depicting the 16th annual Navy Mothers' Clubs of America conference in Los Angeles, California that the Nevada Mothers' Club members attended on July 26-31, 1954.
Archival Collection
Showboat Atlantic City Photograph Collection
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The Showboat Atlantic City Photograph Collection (1986) contains black-and-white and color photographic prints and conceptual sketches of the Showboat Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The photographs depict casino patrons in various locations throughout the Showboat, and the sketches show exterior and interior designs.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Southern Nevada University, 1965
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Archival Collection
Description
An aerial view of Nevada Southern University (NSU). Visible here is Wright Hall, which opened in 1965.
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Photograph of Hoover Dam, 1960s
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of photographer/cameraman filiming on an airplane, circa 1940s-1950s
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Archival Collection
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