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Griffith building, Post office, Cheney Bros. Drug Store and Majestic Theater in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print, approximately 1900 to 1929

Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00171
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02

Archival Component

Photograph of a deserted school, Rhyolite (Nev.), late 1800s-early 1900s

Date
1885 to 1915
Description
Deserted school building in the ghost city of Rhyolite, Nevada. Written on the photograph, " School Bldg. Rhyolite, Nevada. The deserted ghost city of the desert. Nect Stove pipe wells- Death Valley. Frashers Foto."

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Glaciation in the Kings River Canyon of the Sierra Mountains, MA thesis, draft and bound copy, 1925

Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Jeanne Russell Janish Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00355
Collection Name: Jeanne Russell Janish Papers
Box/Folder: Box 07

Archival Component

Film transparency of Wilson's Ranch, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date
1900 to 1939
Description
Black and white image of a page from an album with a photo of several people gathered around a watering trough at Wilson's Ranch. The photo itself is ripped around the edges. Note: Image is from a family photo album that was loaned to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and returned to the family on July 17, 1984.

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Stardust New Years countdown (various cuts/options): video, 1995 December 20

Level of Description
File
Scope and Contents

Local news reports on Stardust showgirl image on the outside of a Western Pacific Airlines plane. Footage shows the showgirl whose image is used (Aki, who performs in Enter the Night) posing next to the plane and a small group of people gathered inside the airport for the reveal. Jim Seagrave (Stardust Marketing) explains how the photograph was taken, then sent off to a company to be made into a vinyl wrap for the plane. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486.

Archival Collection
Stardust Resort and Casino Records
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Collection Number: MS-00515
Collection Name: Stardust Resort and Casino Records
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Box 037

Archival Component

Anna Louise Trapnell high school graduation portrait from the Los Angeles High School, 1925 June

Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Fayle Family Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00113
Collection Name: Fayle Family Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 03

Archival Component

Photograph of Leonard Fayle's freight team, circa late to early 1900s

Date
1870 to 1939
Description
Leonard Fayle's freight team, possibly in Nevada. The man pictured in the photograph might be Leonard Fayle.

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Postcard of John S. Park Home, LasVegas, circa early 1900s

Date
1905 to 1929
Description
Exterior view of the John S. Park Home, Fremont & 4th (purchased by W.E. Ferron in 1919), as explained by S. Swanson, 2-20-1980.

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Photograph of a circus parade, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date
1906 to 1916
Description
The Colossal Circus parade with women on horses moving past the Mesquite Grocery on the southeast corner of 1st and Fremont. This photograph was identified by Shirley Ferron Swanson on October 25, 1983.

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Photograph of a circus parade, Las Vegas, circa early 1900s

Date
1906 to 1916
Description
The Colossal Circus parade moves past crowds and the Mesquite Grocery on the southeast corner of 1st and Fremont. This photograph was identified by Shirley Ferron Swanson on October 25, 1983.

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