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University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of the Vice President for Business Affairs Records

Identifier
UA-00046
Abstract

The records are comprised of budgetary and financial information dating from 1954 to 1988 created by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Office of the Vice President for Business Affairs. The records include information about UNLV budgets, physical plant information, work programs, and correspondence sent to and from Herman Westfall, Vice President of Business Affairs from 1962 to 1987. The collection also includes Herman Westfall’s correspondence files which contain information such as estimative budgets, correspondence with UNLV presidents and colleges, contracts, memoranda, and committee information.

Archival Collection

Maps of flood-prone areas in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1973

Date
1973
Description
'Prepared by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Insurance Administration. 1973.' Sheet 1: Las Vegas NE, Nev.; Sheet 2: Las Vegas SE, Nev.; Sheet 3:Las Vegas SW, Nev.; Sheet 4: Las Vegas NW, Nev. Published by Geological Survey (U.S.). Scale 1:24,000. [1 in. to approx. 2,000 ft.]. Relief shown by contours. Flood information overprinted on U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute topographic quadrangles: [sheet 1] Las Vegas NE quadrangle, [sheet 2] Las Vegas SE quadrangle, [sheet 3] Las Vegas SW quadrangle, [sheet 4] Las Vegas NW quadrangle, 1967. Shows areas subject to flooding by a flood that has 1 in 100 chance on the average of occurring in any one year. "Flood boundaries were estimated from: regional stage-frequency relations." Includes notes.

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Grant Snow oral history interview

Identifier
OH-01727
Abstract

Oral history interview with Grant Snow conducted by Elizabeth Nelson Patrick on November 16, 1982 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Snow discusses arriving to St. Thomas, Nevada in 1925. Snow also describes teaching in St. Thomas, the significance of mines to the region, and increase of local businesses.

Archival Collection

Slide of protesters with signs near the Nevada Test Site, 1983

Date
1983
Description
Color image of people involved with the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group demonstrating against nuclear testing. One is carrying a wooden cross.

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Photograph of Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1950-1951

Date
1950 to 1951
Description
Aerial of Boulder City, Nevada.

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Letter and envelope split in half from Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada to John M. Bunker, Bunkerville, Nevada

Date
1892-08-14
Description

From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, a typed transcription of the same letter, the original envelope split in half and the stamp removed, and a copy of the original letter.

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