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McCarran, Pat, 1876-1954
Patrick “Pat” Anthony McCarran (1876-1954) was a United States senator who was significant in Nevada’s politics for more than fifty years. He was a supporter of the aviation industry as well, lobbying for the construction of the Nellis Air Force Base. McCarran was one of the few Democrats who opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was also known to be a passionate anti-Communist.
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Mandalay Bay can be seen through a gate where flowers and name tags honoring the 58 people who were killed during a 2017 mass shooting were placed at the Route 91 Harvest Festival grounds, looking southwest, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Following the October 1, 2017 killing of 58 people at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, the Las Vegas community responded in a variety of ways. To honor the second anniversary of the shooting, various items were left at the site.
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A sign for the Kwiky Mini Mart Liquor store sits across East Harris Avenue from the Arthur McCants Manor senior housing project at 800 North Eastern Avenue, looking north-northeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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From the UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (PH-00394). Part of the collection documents the entire 19 mile length of the north/south Eastern Avenue / Civic Center Drive alignment. This photograph was captured in the section of Eastern Avenue between Washington and Stewart Avenues.
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Water reaches the high point as automobiles and pedestrians cross the top of the dam as seen from above the Arizona spillway, looking southwest towards the Nevada side at Hoover Dam, Arizona: photographic slide
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Water crashes over the Arizona spillway from a filled Lake Mead basin as seen from a lookout above the dam, looking west towards the Nevada side at Hoover Dam, Arizona: photographic slide
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Water crashes over the Arizona spillway from a filled Lake Mead basin as seen from a lookout above the dam, looking west towards the Nevada side at Hoover Dam, Arizona: photographic slide
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Water crashes over the Arizona spillway from a filled Lake Mead basin as seen from a lookout above the dam, looking west towards the Nevada side at Hoover Dam, Arizona: photographic slide
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Water crashes over the Arizona spillway from a filled Lake Mead basin as seen from a lookout above the dam, looking west towards the Nevada side at Hoover Dam, Arizona: photographic slide
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Water crashes over the Arizona spillway from a filled Lake Mead basin as seen from a lookout above the dam, looking west towards the Nevada side at Hoover Dam, Arizona: photographic slide
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