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Map of California, and territories of Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, 1864
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Map showing water pipeline serving H. C. Wheeler, Arden, Nevada, November 1929
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Southern Nevada Photo Album, image 006
UNLV University Libraries Collection on Nevada Mining
The Nevada Mining Collection is comprised of records that document mining and mines in Nevada from 1842 to 1966. The majority of the collection includes records of various mines and mining companies located in the Esmeralda, Lincoln, Clark, White Pine, and Nye counties, dating from 1900 to 1928. The collection includes financial, administrative, and business related records; photographs of miners, mining camps, and towns; correspondence; maps; newspaper clippings, pamphlets, newsletters, and booklets.
Archival Collection
Close up view of the first airmail plane in Las Vegas and a view of the crowd surrounding the plane: photographic print, negative, and slide, approximately 1900 to 1910
Collection Name: Leon Rockwell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 04, Box SH-015, Binder PB-001 (Restrictions apply)
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Geologic map of the Frenchman Flat quadrangle, Nye, Lincoln, and Clark Counties, Nevada, 1965
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Nevada Biltmore Hotel Collection
The collection dates from 1942 to 1986 and contains a scrapbook and other materials related to the Nevada Biltmore built by Robert Brooks in Las Vegas, Nevada. The scrapbook includes photographs of the resort and newspaper clippings. It also contains some materials from the Seven Seas restaurant owned by Brooks in Hollywood, California. The collection includes newspaper clippings related to Las Vegas gaming and politics, some photographs of Bob Brooks and his wife Jewel at social events in Las Vegas, and a Biltmore menu and stationary.
Archival Collection
Dorothy Ray Photograph Collection on Southern Nevada
The Dorothy Ray Photograph Collection on Southern Nevada, approximately 1900-1946, depicts infrastructure in Caliente, Nevada in the early to mid-twentieth century. The collection also contains images of a flash flood that occurred in 1905 in Carp, Nevada and Stine, Nevada that washed away roads and railroad tracks. This collection provides historical documentation about early to mid-century Caliente, Nevada.
Archival Collection
C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada
The C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada (approximately 1900-1915) contains individual black-and-white photographic prints, photographic albums, black-and-white and tinted postcards, and photographic negatives that document the history of early twentieth century Goldfield, Nevada. The images include photographic prints of Goldfield and surrounding areas during its peak years of 1906-1910; postcards showing scenes of Goldfield, Tonopah, and other areas in central Nevada; and negatives that contain images of Rinker's family and homelife in Indiana and Illinois.
Archival Collection
Nevada Library Notes
Nevada Library Notes, Vol. 1-4 issued by the Nevada State Library. Materials about the news of library activities and articles for publication by Nevada librarians. It also contains minutes of the 18th annual convention.
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