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Las Vegas Monorail Records

Identifier

MS-00539

Abstract

The Las Vegas Monorail Records (1971-1980) consist of articles, newspaper clippings, agency reports, and correspondence concerning the 1970s effort to construct a Las Vegas, Nevada mass-transit monorail system. Materials document the project conception, development, and ultimate failureroughout the 1970s.

Archival Collection

Film transparency of Las Vegas High School, Las Vegas, 1930

Date

1930

Description

The Las Vegas High School under construction in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Las Vegas centennial news clippings

Date

2005-01-23
2005-05-15
2005-05-13
2005-05-20
2005-06

Description

Las Vegas centennial news clippings

Text

The "Vegas Strong" heart sculpture at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden, looking south-southeast 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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Slide of the Las Vegas Club, Las Vegas, December 1955

Date

1955-12

Description

Las Vegas Club signs lit up at night on Fremont Street.

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Photograph of a guest room in the Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1974-1975

Date

1974 to 1975

Description

A woman poses in a guest room in the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Photograph of the Las Vegas Rotary Club, Las Vegas, 1940

Date

1940

Description

A black and white image of Las Vegas Rotary Club members in front of a Union Pacific Stages bus in Las Vegas. This photo was taken from a time capsule in the cornerstone of the Union Pacific Railroad station located in Las Vegas. The time capsule was placed there in 1940 and was later retrieved when the building was demolished around 1970.

Image

Aerial photograph of McWilliams' Original Las Vegas Townsite and Clark's Las Vegas Townsite, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1931

Date

1931

Description

Aerial view looking southwest with the original Las Vegas town site, McWilliams' Townsite on the right and the next development in the valley, Clark's Las Vegas Townsite in the left center.

Image

Photograph of El Rancho Vegas, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Front view of El Rancho with Virgil Murphy, Frank Watts, and another unidentified man in "Hotel El Rancho Vegas" cart. Site Name: El Rancho Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Image

Vegas Ink Tattoo parlor on the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-06-03

Description

Neon from the Vegas Ink Tattoo parlor is seen with the Las Vegas Strip at dusk.

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