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A portion of the upper Las Vegas Wash flood control channel can be seen between the railroad tracks and I-15, looking north-northeast, in North Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date
2018-11-27
Description

From the UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (PH-00394). Part of the collection documents the entire 19 mile length of the north/south Eastern Avenue / Civic Center Drive alignment. This photograph was captured in the section of Civic Center Drive between Alexander Road and Cheyenne Avenue.

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Map showing water pipelines to be sold to the Las Vegas Valley Water District, those to be retained by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and privately owned pipelines, April 29, 1953

Date
1953-04-29
Description
'Exhibit H. Portions of pipe lines to be sold to the District. Pipe lines connecting to those to be sold to the District which will be retained by Railroad Companies. privately owned pipe lines. April 29, 1953. I-128.'

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Signed offer from the Las Vegas Valley Water District to purchase all water production lands, facilities, and rights owned by the Union Pacific Railroad and subsidiaries, August 25, 1952

Date
1952-08-25
Description

Signed offer by several officers and directors of the Las Vegas Valley Water District to the Union Pacific and Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Companies and the Las Vegas Land and Water Company to purchase water production facilities and rights in Las Vegas.

Transcribed Notes: Handwritten notes on page 1: Except rooming house office & furniture

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"63: Union Pacific Yard Genesis; Main Street Station railroad cars; Union Pacific 3305; SP 7615 at Apex and Valley": photographs

Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Ray Tutaj Jr. and Harv Kahn Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00456
Collection Name: Ray Tutaj Jr. and Harv Kahn Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 01

Archival Component

Personal: Oberlin, Ohio, railroad tracks, Apollo-Soyuz Television broadcast, manufactured wood forms, and ranch, 35 mm slides, 1975-1977

Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Robert Woodruff Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00455
Collection Name: Robert Woodruff Papers
Box/Folder: Box 12

Archival Component

Copy of offer from the Las Vegas Valley Water District to purchase all water production lands, facilities, and rights owned by the Union Pacific Railroad and subsidiaries, August 25, 1952

Date
1952-08-25
Description

Offer from the Las Vegas Valley Water District to purchase all water production lands and facilities owned by the Union Pacific Railroad and subsidiaries

Transcribed Notes: Handwritten on page 1: including $127600(?) for Hyde Park installation and $40 000 for mis equip

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A Cultural Resource Investigation of the Proposed Side Track Addition to the Los Angeles and Lake Railroad Southeast of Caliente, Lincoln County, Nevada, 1981 March

Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Richard and Sheilagh Brooks Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00885
Collection Name: Richard and Sheilagh Brooks Papers
Box/Folder: Box 06

Archival Component

Local boy scouts pose in front of a famous sign that railroad passengers could see from their cars when in the station near the depot, 1929

Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Sherwin "Scoop" Garside Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00067
Collection Name: Sherwin "Scoop" Garside Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 02

Archival Component

Report on appraisal of water system owned by Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad and Las Vegas Land & Water Co., 1952

Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Las Vegas Land & Water Company Records from the Las Vegas Valley Water District
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Collection Number: MS-00912
Collection Name: Las Vegas Land & Water Company Records from the Las Vegas Valley Water District
Box/Folder: Box 04

Archival Component

"Tonopah extension" mining operation buildings, railroad extension line, and surrounding buildings in Tonopah, Nevada: glass plate negative, approximately 1900 to 1909

Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
E. W. Smith Glass Plate Negatives
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Collection Number: PH-00460
Collection Name: E. W. Smith Glass Plate Negatives
Box/Folder: Box 01

Archival Component