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Photograph of the Searchlight riverboat on the Colorado River, 1903
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Bulletin of the Union Pacific Shop Employees Association, May 31, 1924
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Bulletin of the Union Pacific Shop Employes Association, August 31, 1923
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Bulletin of the Union Pacific Shop Employes Association, January 31, 1923
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Bulletin of the Union Pacific Shop Employes Association, February 29, 1924
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Photograph of people outside Gold Reef's first business (Nev.), 1908
Gold Reef, Nevada, camp's first business, October 11, 1908. There is an inscription on the back of the image: "The camp's first business, a combination saloon, restaurant, barber shop and general store, October 11, 1908. Gold Reef was located 8 miles south of Tonopah in the Gold Mountain mining district. The camp was founded after rich gold outcrops were discovered nearby, but the deposits were small and the camp had vanished by 1910. The area came to life again during the Divide boom of 1919, but was abandoned again by 1925. E.W. Smith photo." There is a date stamp: 1984.
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Photograph of Lorna Kesterson and others, Lake Mead, 1940s-1950s
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Junior League of Las Vegas Photograph Collection
The Junior League of Las Vegas Photograph Collection contains photographic prints and negatives, as well as postcards of locations in and around Las Vegas, Nevada between approximately 1900 and 1980. Early photographs in the collection offer views of the Las Vegas townsite, buildings, railroads, the Las Vegas High School, Overland Hotel, Arizona Club, and residential areas. Other photographs during this time depict the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) construction and Death Valley, California. Later photographs show the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) campus, downtown Las Vegas, and the Las Vegas Strip.
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