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Photograph of the front of El Rancho Vegas (Las Vegas), 1950s

Date
1950 to 1959
Description

The front of the El Rancho Vegas with a woman in a bikini. Stamp on back of photo: "Please credit Union Pacific Railroad Photo."
Site Name: El Rancho Vegas
Address: 2500 Las Vegas Boulevard South

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Letter from T. C. Peck to T. P. Cullen, February 5, 1920

Date
1920-02-05
Description
Letter concerns stopping a union representative who is trying to persuade shipworkers to go on strike.
Caption: Complaint - Southwestern Shipbuilding Co.

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Postcard of Union Pacific Station, Las Vegas, circa 1940

Date
1940
Description
Text on front of post card: "New Union Pacific Station, Las Vegas, Nevada; Gateway to Boulder Dam; Copyright Boulder Dam Service Bureau." Text on back of postcard: "The new passenger depot of the Union Pacific in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the world's first streamlined, completely air-conditioned railroad passenger station. Typically modernistic western in motif, the structure has been described by architects as one of the most beautiful in design and superlatively complete in appointments, in the United States. Desert Souvenir Supply, Boulder City, Nevada."

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Photograph of Spencer Butterfield and two men at a train station, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1940s

Date
1940 to 1949
Description
Spencer Butterfield (middle) and two unidentified men standing in front of Union Pacific Railroad engine #X50 at depot.

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Photograph of Spencer Butterfield and two men standing at a train station, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1940s

Date
1940 to 1949
Description
Spencer Butterfield (middle) and two unidentified men standing in front of Union Pacific Railroad engine #X50 at depot.

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Rex Bell in a parade on horseback: photographic print

Date
1880 to 1979
Description

Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute. Stamped on back: "Union Pacific Railroad Photo."

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Photograph of the front of Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn (Las Vegas), 1950s

Date
1950 to 1959
Description

The front of Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn with a full parking lot. Stamp on back of photo: "Please credit Union Pacific Railroad Photo"'
Site Name: Desert Inn
Address: 3045 Las Vegas Boulevard South

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Photograph of Word War I draftees leaving Las Vegas, Nevada Depot, 1918

Date
1918
Description
People in front of railroad station. Handwritten description by Dave Coons given with photograph: "SP,LA & SL station, [street side] with draftees WWI Las Vegas. Sequence of farewell scenes with views of cars. At least one car still lettered 'Salt Lake.'" Another description given with photograph: "First contingent of draftees leaving Las Vegas Depot, 1918."

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Letter from G. T. Wickstrom (Omaha) to E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles), October 9, 1953

Date
1953-10-09
Description

The contract between the Las Vegas Land and Water Company and the Las Vegas Valley Water District said that all material and equipment used for business would go to the District. Wickstrom is requesting to know what to do with pipe belonging to the Union Pacific Railroad but intended for the Las Vegas Land and Water Co.

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Photograph album 3, Ferron-Bracken Collection, circa 1905-1935, page 21

Date
1905 to 1935
Description
Photograph in lower left is of the Union Pacific railroad station in Las Vegas at the northwest end of Fremont Street, circa 1905-1910. The photograph in the lower right corner shows part of the Union Pacific railyard in Las Vegas, circa 1910s.

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