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Photograph of people in Moapa, Nevada, 1927
Date
1927
Description
Description given with photograph: "Moapa by pump station, 1927" List of names given on back of photograph: Mother; Gilda Mosbach; Roy and Earl Mosback; Bessie; Leon, jr.; Leon, sr.; Charlot and Rawhne Mosbach; Jim Adams; Frances Adows; Margy Earl Rockwell; Harry Jamison"
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Winner's Inn in Winnemucca, Nevada: postcard
Date
1940 (year approximate) to 1990 (year approximate)
Description
From the Harvey's Hotel and Casino Postcard Collection (PH-00367) -- Joe Mackie's Winners Inn. Winnemucca's newest Motor Hotel. Seventy five luxurious rooms, pool, TV, coffee shop, dining room, and show lounge. 150 liberal slots.
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Winner's Inn in Winnemucca, Nevada: postcard
Date
1940 (year approximate) to 1990 (year approximate)
Description
From the Harvey's Hotel and Casino Postcard Collection (PH-00367) -- Joe Mackie's Winners Inn. Winnemucca's newest Motor Hotel. Seventy five luxurious rooms, pool, TV, coffee shop, dining room, and show lounge. 150 liberal slots.
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The Brass Rail in Virginia City, Nevada: postcard
Date
1940 (year approximate) to 1990 (year approximate)
Description
From the Harvey's Hotel and Casino Postcard Collection (PH-00367) -- Inscription with image says, "The Brass Rail has the oldest roulette wheel in Nevada with slot machines and other gaming for your pleasure. Beautifying their back bar is a lovely collection of gold and ruby glasses over 200 years old, and some artifacts of the early days in Virginia City."
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Photograph of Kiernan School, Lincoln County, Nevada, 1938
Date
1938
Description
Kiernan School, Lincoln County, Nevada. (Possibly a double exposure with another building.)
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Paseo Verde Drive, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2018-02-03
Description
Green Valley Ranch boasts a walkable, park and trail filled neighborhood feel even as Paseo Verde Parkway seen here at Desert Shadow Trail is a major thoroughfare serving its neighborhoods in Henderson, Nevada.
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Slide of the MGM Grand, Reno, Nevada, circa 1980s
Date
1980 to 1989
Description
Night view of the MGM Grand in Reno, Nevada. Officially opened in May of 1978, the MGM Grand has been changed and remodeled into multiple other casinos, including the Bally's Reno, then the Reno Hilton, and finally the 2011 Grand Sierra Resort and Casino (GSR). Site Name: MGM Grand (Reno. Nev.)
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Lenten Desert Experience, Police protestors on Good Friday, Nevada Test Site, Nevada: photographic slide
Date
1982-04-09
Description
From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352).
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Postcard of scenes in central Nevada, circa 1927-1930s
Date
1927 to 1939
Description
A picture postcard with photographs with the captions "Badger hole;" "Electric Gold Mines, Weepah, Nevada;" "Crowd looking at rich strike;" "Town of Weepah, Nevada where rich gold strike was made;" "Frank Horton, Geo. Wingfield;" "The rich strike;" "Traynor and Horton, boys who found the gold." Leonard Traynor and Frank Horton, Jr., found gold ore in Weepah, Nevada in early spring 1927; George Wingfield was a prominent banker and miner in Nevada in the early decades of the twentieth century. The "badger hole" was where Traynor and Horton reportedly made their first gold strike.
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Photograph of Rockwell family members in Southern Nevada, circa early 1920s
Date
1920 to 1925
Description
Description given with photograph: "Mrs. Leon Rockwell, Sr. [Bessie Rockwell] and daughter Margie and Leon Jr. (behind bush)"
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