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Las Vegas Public Library Open House: photographic print

Information

Date
1955
Description
From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248). Las Vegas Public Library third anniversary open house. Reba McKinster, Librarian (second from left); Lillian Fleury (third from left); Beda Cornwall (third from right) and Mrs. Ernest King (second from right). On the sign, "The founding of a Library is one of the greatest things we can do... Everyone able to read a good book becomes a wiser man... A collection of good books contains all the nobleness & wisdom of the world before us. A collection of books is the best of all universities... Thomas Carlyle". Stamped on the back of the photograph, "City of Las Vegas Department of Recreation".
Digital ID
pho031920
Physical Identifier
0248_0044
Permalink
http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d17m04c38
Details
Subject
Signs and signboards
Libraries
Cornwall, Beda
Time Period
1950s (1950 - 1959)
Resource Type
Image
Material Type
photographs
photographic prints
black-and-white photographs
Source
Las Vegas Public Library third anniversary open house. Reba McKinster, librarian (second from left); Lillian Fleury (third from left); Beda Cornwall (third from right) and Mrs. Ernest King (second from right), 1955
Citation

pho031920. Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection, 1940s-1978. PH-00248. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d17m04c38

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Digital Provenance
Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
Format
image/tiff