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Harvey's Hotel and Casino in Stateline, Nevada: postcard

Date
1940 (year approximate) to 1990 (year approximate)
Description
From the Harvey's Hotel and Casino Postcard Collection (PH-00367) -- Harvey's Resort Hotel and Casino in Stateline, Nevada captured at sunset.

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Circus Circus 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) -- Carousel and tent of the Circus Circus Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Slide of protest signs near the Nevada Test Site, 1984

Date
1984
Description
Color image of signs reading "Lord God must this vessel be broken." The signs were placed in the desert by the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group demonstrating against nuclear testing.

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Aftermath of a flood in Beatty, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1923
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. Showing flood damage and water levels on machinery inside the mill owned and operated by J. Irving Crowell's home on Second Street in Beatty. The mill was built to refine ore from the Crowell Fluorspar mine.

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) College of Science and Mathematics 33rd commencement program

Date
1996-05-11
Description

Commencement program from University of Nevada, Las Vegas Commencement Programs and Graduation Lists (UA-00115).

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Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada Records

Identifier
MS-00741
Abstract

The Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada records (1965, 1972, 1999-2016) mainly consist of organizational records created by the board of directors and officers of the group, stories about the experiences of local Holocaust survivors, and ephemera related to the Holocaust Survivors Group and the local Jewish community. Organization records include meeting minutes, correspondence, by-laws, and a list of officers. Materials also include a video recording of a 2006 Yom Hashoah memorial service to remember the Holocaust at Temple Beth Sholom and the Spring 2016 issue of PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators.

Archival Collection

Students at the Beatty School, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1930 to 1939
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.F. Palsgrove Family. Chloe Lisle is in the front row wearing the dark jacket, and Robert Revert is in back on the far left. Philip Cottonwood is in back on the far right. Spike Cottonwood is in front, second from the right.

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Photograph of a group of people in Searchlight, Nevada, 1970

Date
1970
Description
Unidentified group of people gathered outdoors for a group photo in Searchlight Nevada, during a Historical Society trip. They may be relations of Elbert Edwards.

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Film transparency of Lake Mead, Nevada, 1947

Date
1947
Description
A view of Lake Mead, Nevada, taken from above Hoover Dam. The location is unknown, but the island visible is possibly near Boulder Beach.

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Postcard of Downtown Reno, Nevada, 1870-1880

Date
1870 to 1880
Description
A picture of the front of a postcard from Reno. Transcribed from back, "Reno, The Biggest Little City in the World" "Virginia St. Reno, Nevada."

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