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Transmission lines connect power produced at Crescent Dunes Solar to the Nevada grid, near Tonopah, Nevada: digital photograph

Date
2014-06-24
Description
Photographer's note: "Transmission lines connect power produced at Crescent Dunes Solar to the Nevada grid, Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada, USA."
Photographer's assigned keywords: "110 megawatts; CSP; Concentrated Solar Energy; Concentrated Solar Power; Crescent Dunes; NV; Nevada; Solar Reserve; SolarReserve; Tonopah; concentrated solar thermal; green energy; ground-based photo; molten salt; off-site; renewable energy; storage; tower."

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Photograph of Bottle House, Tonopah, Nevada, 1902

Date
1902
Description
Bottle House in Tonopah, Nevada, built by Wm. F. Peck in 1902. Pictured are, left to right: Wesley Peck (3 years old), and Mary Peck (7 years old).

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The Boulder Club in Las Vegas, Nevada: postcard

Date
1940 (year approximate) to 1990 (year approximate)
Description
From the Harvey's Hotel and Casino Postcard Collection (PH-00367) -- An artistic rendition of the Boulder Club sign and marquee located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of English Records

Identifier
UA-00126
Abstract

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of English Records (approximately 1970-1989) contain materials from the Department of English including the Fern first-year newsletter, the Commonplace essays from English 101 students, English as a second language program information, and the Southern Nevada Writing Project.

Archival Collection

Rex Bell with a group of unidentified men in Reno, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1880 to 1979
Description

Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute

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Slide of Main Street, Ely, Nevada, circa 1920s

Date
1920 to 1929
Description
An image of Main Street in Ely, Nevada. A crowd of people and automobiles cluster together on the street in front of various buildings.

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Slide of the Penguin Restaurant, Carson City, Nevada, 1986

Date
1986
Description
A color image of the front exterior and neon sign for the blue and white Penguin Restaurant, located in Carson City, Nevada.

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Slide of protesters with a globe near the Nevada Test Site, 1984

Date
1984
Description
Color image of people involved with the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group protesting nuclear testing. One is holding a globe of the world.

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Photograph of a schoolhouse in Eagle Valley, Nevada, 1938

Date
1938
Description
Several people stand outside of a small wooden schoolhouse in Eagle Valley, Lincoln County, Nevada. The area is now part of Spring Valley State Park.

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Ruthe Scott Photographs of Las Vegas, Nevada Hotels and Casinos

Identifier
PH-00220
Abstract

The Ruthe Scott Photographs of Las Vegas, Nevada Hotels and Casinos contain color and black-and-white negatives and transparencies of Las Vegas hotels and casinos from 1960 to 1986. The collection includes the Sahara Hotel, Castaways Hotel and Casino, the Desert Inn Hotel, the Dunes Hotel, the Riviera Hotel, the Sands Hotel, the Silver Slipper Gambling Hall, Tally Ho Grounds, the Thunderbird Hotel, and the Hotel Flamingo. The collection also includes people gambling in Las Vegas casinos and two transparencies of Nevada politician Phil Tobin, who sponsored the bill to legalize gambling in 1931.

Archival Collection