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The Las Vegas Community Healing Garden, looking north in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2019-04-07

Description

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. Envisioned by activists and built by volunteers, the City of Las Vegas established the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden at 1015 S. Casino Center Boulevard to honor the victims and give family members and the community a place to gather to remember.

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Architectural drawings of residential home in Las Vegas, Nevada, exterior elevations, May 23, 1958

Date

1958-05-23

Description

Front, right, rear and left exterior elevations of a ranch-style residential home and detached garage in the Las Verdes Heights development in Las Vegas, Nevada. "Drawn by J.C.M. & P.J.C. Checked by E.C.B." "Sheet no. 8 of 25."
Site Name: Las Verdes Heights

Architecture Period: Mid-Century Modernist

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Architectural drawings of residential home in Las Vegas, Nevada, exterior elevations, May 23, 1958

Date

1958-05-23

Description

Front, right, rear and left exterior elevations of a ranch-style residential home with detached garage in the Las Verdes Heights development in Las Vegas, Nevada. "Drawn by P.J.C. & J.C.M. Checked by E.C.B." "Sheet no. 9 of 25."
Site Name: Las Verdes Heights

Architecture Period: Mid-Century Modernist

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Architectural drawings of residential home in Las Vegas, Nevada, exterior elevations, May 23, 1958

Date

1958-05-23

Description

Exterior and interior elevations of a ranch-style residential home in the Las Verdes Heights development in Las Vegas, Nevada. Interior elevations for kitchen, bathrooms and vanity and wardrobe shown. "Drawn by J.C.M. Checked by E.C.B." "Sheet no. 7 of 25."
Site Name: Las Verdes Heights

Architecture Period: Mid-Century Modernist

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Photograph of Las Vegas High School Rhythmettes, Las Vegas, 1959

Date

1959

Description

The Las Vegas High School Rhythmettes wave good-bye prior to their departure on a tour to Idaho during the summer of 1959. In the foreground and shaking hands are Mayor Oran Gragson (center foreground, left) and Evelyn Stuckey (center foreground, right), director of the group. They are all standing in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Map showing general geology and areas of artesian flow of the Las Vegas, Pahrump, and Indian Spring Valleys, Clark and Nye Counties, Nevada, 1946

Date

1947

Description

'United States Department of Interior, Geological Survey, Water Resources Bulletin No. 6.' 'State Engineer of Nevada.' Relief shown by contours. Includes township and range lines. Scale [ca. 1:126,720. 1 in.=approx. 2 miles]. Series: Water resources bulletin (Carson City, Nev.)
no. 6. Originally published as plate 1 in Ground water in Las Vegas, Pahrump, and Indian Spring Valleys, Nevada : a summary / G. B. Maxey and T. W. Robinson, prepared in cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, and published as no. 6 of the Water resources bulletin.

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Aerial photograph of the Las Vegas Hilton (Las Vegas), circa 1978

Date

1978 to 1979

Description

Las Vegas Hilton after the expansion of the north tower. Stamped on original: "Las Vegas News Bureau. Las Vegas - Nevada Convention Center, 31238 Don English. Jerry Abbott. Joe Buck. Milt Palmer. Wolf Wergin. Gary Angell. Tony King. Jim Borrup. Lee McDonald. Herb Herpolsheimer." Note: The International Hotel was sold in 1970 and renamed the Las Vegas Hilton in 1971.
Site Name: International Hotel
Address: 3000 Paradise Road

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Photograph of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas Mayors, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950-1965

Date

1950 to 1965

Description

Mayors of North Las Vegas and Las Vegas sign documents with two other unidentified gentlemen, described as "engineers."

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Sundown/sunset on the Las Vegas Strip made July 8, 2014 in Las Vegas: digital photographs

Date

2014-07-08

Description

Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05). Client: Boyd School of Law

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Photograph of the Las Vegas Press Club Installation at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, circa April 1969

Date

1969-04

Description

An unidentified group of individuals from the Las Vegas Press Club having dinner at an event at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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