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Slide of Petroglyphs on a rock, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 2000s
Date
Unknown year in the decade of the 2000s (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Petroglyphs in the Boulder City Dry Fall Area. The exact location is unknown, but the location is possibly in Keyhole Canyon. Petroglyphs are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images. Petroglyphs are found world-wide, and are often associated with prehistoric peoples. The word comes from the Greek words petro-, theme of the word "petra" meaning "stone", and glyphein meaning "to carve", and was originally coined in French as pétroglyphe. The term petroglyph should not be confused with petrograph, which is an image drawn or painted on a rock face. Both types of image belong to the wider and more general category of rock art or parietal art. Petroforms, or patterns and shapes made by many large rocks and boulders over the ground, are also quite different. Inukshuks are also uni
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Photograph of Vegas Heights Elementary School, Las Vegas, 1946
Date
1946
Archival Collection
Description
A flag raising ceremony at the Vegas Heights Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada. From left to right, people are identified as follows: Dolly Ruth Wheeler's son (with bugle); Billy (holding flag; the flag was donated in honor of his father, a WWII casualty); Dale, the soloist; Mrs. Wilson, Brownie Scout leader and Vice President of the P. T. A.; Mrs. Sellers, President of Vegas Heights P. T. A.; Miss Jane; Adams Ledbetter, Primary Supervisor; Miss Maude Frazier, Superintendent; Billy's widowed mother (dressed in all black); Edna Lundgren, 2nd & 3rd grade teacher; Roma Knight, Principal; and Brownie scouts.
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Photograph of Las Vegas Education Association, Las Vegas, circa late 1940s
Date
1945 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
Education leaders gathered together for a social event given by Las Vegas Education Association in Las Vegas, Nevada. Seated, left to right: Miss Lucille Chandler; Mrs. Clarabelle Hanley; Miss Helen Marie Smith; and Miss Maude Frazier, former Superintendent of schools in Las Vegas. Second row, left to right: Samuel B. Kurtz; Miss Rozie Copenhaver; Harvey Dondero; Duane D. Keller; Mrs. Adrian Dubois Walter V. Long; Miss Doris French; K. O. Knudson; and Mrs. Roma Knight. Third Row, left to right: Roy McCaughey and Oran Ballinger.
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Photograph of snow in Las Vegas, 1949
Date
1949
Archival Collection
Description
Two unidentified people standing in the snow in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Photograph of Vegas Heights Elementary School, Las Vegas, circa 1940s
Date
1940 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
A group of pre-school children dressed in costume for Halloween standing in front of one of two portable buildings added to the Vegas Heights Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada. The newly-added portable is the building to the left.
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Photograph of mining and/or mill operation, Nevada, circa late 1800s - early 1900s
Date
1875 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
A panoramic, downhill view of an unidentified mining and/or mill operation in Nevada.
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Photograph of Annebelle Plunkett, circa February 1948
Date
1948-02
Archival Collection
Description
Annebelle Plunkett poses for a picture while sitting and writing at a desk in an unknown location, possibly Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Photograph of an unidentified woman, circa 1940s
Date
1940 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
A portrait of an unidentified woman, possibly in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Photograph of Frank Fisher Garside, circa 1940s
Date
1940 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
A portrait of Frank Fisher Garside, probably in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Photograph of Nanyu and Yonema "Bill" Tomiyasu, circa 1966
Date
1965 to 1967
Archival Collection
Description
Nanyu and Yonema "Bill" Tomiyasu posing beside each other in front of a blue car, probably in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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