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Damaged Royal Nevada sign at a neon sign boneyard: photographic print

Date

1991

Description

Royal Nevada hotel sign resides broken at a "Bone yard" for neon signs in Las Vegas. (1991)

Image

Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) Sign Graveyard, 1986

Level of Description

Series

Scope and Contents

Materials contain photographic slides from 1986 of the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) "sign graveyard" in Las Vegas, Nevada, where retired neon signs were collected. YESCO is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah and specializes in making custom neon signs.

Archival Collection

Neon in Nevada Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00225
Collection Name: Neon in Nevada Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Slide of neon signs at the YESCO sign graveyard, Sparks, Nevada, 1986

Date

1986

Description

A color image of neon signs for various establishments (including a restaurant, casino, topless bar, and gas station) in the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) sign graveyard in Sparks.

Image

Slide of neon signs at the YESCO sign graveyard, Sparks, Nevada, 1986

Date

1986

Description

A color image of various neon signs for Shell gas stations in the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) sign graveyard in Sparks.

Image

Slide of neon signs at the YESCO sign graveyard, Sparks, Nevada, 1986

Date

1986

Description

A color image of neon signs for various gas stations (including 76, Shell and Mobil) in the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) sign graveyard in Sparks.

Image

Signs, check-in ceiling sign, 2006

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Stardust Resort and Casino Records
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Collection Number: MS-00515
Collection Name: Stardust Resort and Casino Records
Box/Folder: Box 111

Archival Component

Casino signs: Brilliant Signs, 1994

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

UNLV Libraries Collection of Regional History Files
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Collection Number: MS-00547
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Regional History Files
Box/Folder: Box 08

Archival Component

Letters: signed and co-signed, 1988

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Senator Chic Hecht Political Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00003
Collection Name: Senator Chic Hecht Political Papers
Box/Folder: Box 098

Archival Component

Signs

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Maggie Mancuso Collection of Film Locations
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Collection Number: MS-00504
Collection Name: Maggie Mancuso Collection of Film Locations
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) Corporate Records

Identifier

MS-00403

Abstract

The Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) Corporate Records (1914-2000) document the history of the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) and is comprised of photographs of sign production and finished signs, negatives, slides, transparencies, anniversary scrapbooks, and videotapes. The collection also contains meeting minutes, correspondence, price books, drawings, calculations, newspaper and trade magazine articles on YESCO, advertising materials, and oral history interviews and audio recordings of YESCO designers and executives. YESCO is responsible for many of the neon signs in and around Las Vegas, Nevada and Reno, Nevada, as well as other Western states.

Archival Collection