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Virginia Logan Photograph Collection
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The Virginia Logan Photograph Collection contains photographic prints, negatives, and slides primarily depicting Nevada between approximately 1900 and 1940 with a focus on Las Vegas and its local landscapes. These photographs were taken by Glenn Davis.
Archival Collection
Audio recording clip of interview with Katherine Duncan and Sarann Knight Preddy by Claytee D. White, November 28, 2004
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview with Katherine Duncan and Sarann Knight Preddy (not featured in clip) by Claytee White, November 28, 2004. Duncan describes how she started a black heritage tour of Las Vegas.
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Photograph of Dale Dorothy using radio equipment, Pahrump (Nev.), circa 1951
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Archival Collection
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken to C. O. Whittemore (Los Angeles), January 17, 1908
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Archival Collection
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Letter to the president of the Las Vegas Land and Water Company complaining of the railroad pumping oil from a sump into Las Vegas Creek.
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Photograph looking northwest through the remains of St. Thomas, March 25, 1964
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Archival Collection
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Looking northwest through the remains of St. Thomas towards the site of the Lost City
Transcribed Notes: Bureau of Reclamation typed notes appended to back of photo: Townsite of St. Thomas, Nevada--Moapa Valley Project--Nevada A view of a portion of the townsite of St. Thomas, Nevada, settled by the Mormons in 1865, during a period of low water elevation in Lake Mead, above Hoover Dam. The town was first covered by Lake Mead in June 1938.
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 19, 1986
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Archival Collection
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Biographical essay by Simone Salen, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Simone Salen's parents survived the Holocaust, and she describes her life as a miracle. She was reunited with her father's diary, which he kept during the Holocaust, and translated it into English.
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