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Slide of protesters and an altar at a demonstration near the Nevada Test Site, circa 1990

Date
1988 to 1991
Description
Color image of protesters with the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group demonstrating against nuclear testing, gathered together at a makeshift altar in the Nevada desert.

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Front of the Episcopal Church, Beatty, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1930
Description

The Episcopal Church was the only church in town at that time. From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.B. Lisle Family. Mrs. Ray, Mrs. Albert Revert, Edith Revert, unidentified women, Mrs. O'Brien, Mrs. McRea, and Mrs. Harvey (identified from left to right).

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Dora Tevez Herrman teaches English as a Second Language (ESL) to members of the Nevada Association of Latin Americans (NALA) in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1983 to 1986
Description

Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dora Tevez Herrman is a teacher of English-As-A-Second Language at the Nevada Association of Latin Americans (NALA), a community-based non-profit organization in Las Vegas. Her services are vital in helping Hispanic immigrants to learn English and to more easily assimilate into life in the United States. Dora Tevez Herrman went on to become a teacher, Assistant Principal and Principal in the Clark County School District.

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Slide of protesters at a demonstration near the Nevada Test Site, March 10, 1991

Date
1991-03-10
Description
Color image of a group of protesters (perhaps dancing) at a Park-n-Ride lot preparing for an anti-nuclear testing demonstration organized by Lenten Desert Experience (also called Nevada Desert Experience) in the Nevada desert.

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Photograph of a rendering of the Nevada Club, (Laughlin, Nev.), before 1984

Date
1980 to 1984
Description

Proposed Nevada Club in Laughlin, Nevada. It is now the Golden Nugget Laughlin.
Site Name: Nevada Club (Laughlin, Nev.)
Address: 2300 Casino Drive

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Photograph of the Edwards brothers harvesting ice in Nevada, 1906

Date
1906
Description
L-R: Brothers Frank, Hosea, George, Eli, and Will Edwards harvest blocks of ice in Nevada with saws, axes and tongs. George Edwards was the father of Elbert Edwards.

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Postcard of cutting operation camp, Belleville, Nevada, 1880s

Date
1880 to 1889
Description
Cordwood cutting operation camp near Belleville, Nevada. The collected wood is used for fuel in ore processing mill there. Stacks of wood and corral are in the center of the postcard.

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