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Photograph of women on the porch of a hotel, Goodsprings (Nev.), 1900-1925
Site Name: Hotel Fayle (Goodsprings, Nev.)
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Photograph of Clyde Jackson cabin No. 1, Tonopah (Nev.), 1905
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Photograph of the first permanent railroad depot, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
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Photograph of the Union Plaza railroad depot, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1918
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Photograph of houses dug into the earth, Goldfield (Nev.), 1903
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Photograph of the First Methodist Church, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1909
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Photograph of the First Methodist Church, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1913
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J. A. Tiberti Construction Records
The J. A. Tiberti Construction Records include material documenting construction work performed throughout Las Vegas, Nevada between 1950 and 2011 including bid packages, specifications, contracts, correspondence, company records, legal documents, and architectural plans.
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Nanyu Tomiyasu interview, March 11, 1978: transcript
On March 11, 1978, Sosuke Miyazawa interviewed Nanyu Tomiyasu (b. May 28, 1918 in Las Vegas, Nevada) about his family’s farm and their legacy as one of the pioneering families of the city. Tomiyasu begins by talking about what brought his family to Las Vegas, the city’s abundant water reservoir and his father’s farm. In particular, Tomiyasu discusses his father’s experiments with farming as one of the city’s early farmers, the transition into nursery farming and Japanese gardens. Moreover, he discusses his siblings, the local schools, their great quality, the successful students the city produced and the growth of school populations. Tomiyasu describes the large Japanese population and the Union Pacific Railroad that many of them worked on. He ends by discussing the change in architecture within the city, such as where old buildings stood and what they are used for now, the first Episcopal Church and the old Mormon Fort.
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Transcript of interview with Anna Peltier by Claytee White and Stefani Evans, August 19, 2016
Anna Peltier, owner and founder of ARIA Landscape Architecture in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a transplanted farm girl and a musician. She was born in 1978 on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in Escanaba, Michigan, where she and two brothers were the second generation to grow up on their parents’ (and formerly their grandparents’) farm. She studied music performance at Michigan State University but after discovering her love of landscape architecture early in her college career, she changed majors and earned her degree in landscape architecture. Moving to Las Vegas in 2007, she first worked for JW Zunino Landscape Architects. While with Zunino she did design work for Lorenzi Park and designed the award-winning Cactus Avenue Interchange. As ARIA’s principal designer, Anna designed Discovery Park in Pahrump, Nevada, and the USA Parkway between Lake Tahoe, California, and Reno, Nevada. In 2013, when Anna opened ARIA, she carefully chose the name of her business. First, for practical reasons she want
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