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Postcard: from left to right: Albert Henderson, Alice Henderson O'Brien (Albert S. Henderson's sister), and Dr. O'Brien at the World's Fair, 1900s
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Albert S. Henderson Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00317
Collection Name: Albert S. Henderson Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Collection Name: Albert S. Henderson Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Archival Component
Topographic map of the Furnace Creek quadrangle, Nevada and California, 1947
Date
1947
Description
'E.M. Douglas, geographer. R.H. Chapman, in charge of section. Topography by R.H. Chapman, B.D. Stewart, J.E. Blackburn and D.F.C. Moor. Traingulation by R.H. Chapman and D.F.C. Moor. Surveyed in1905-1906.' 'Edition of Apr. 1910, reprinted 1947.' Scale 1:250,000 ; polyconic proj. (W 117°00´--W 116°00´/N 37°00´--N 36°00´). Relief shown by contours and spot heights. 'North American datum.' 'Contour interval 100 feet.' 'Datum is mean sea level.' Text and illustrations from the Topographic maps of the United States series on verso. Series: The topograhic maps of the United States. United States, Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey
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"A burrow train on road to Gold Reef" three burrows, five men, and a dog stand on a dirt road: glass plate negative, approximately 1900 to 1909
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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
Collection Name: E. W. Smith Glass Plate Negatives
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Postcard showing view from Mount Whitney Highway across Owens Valley, Lone Pine, California, circa mid 1900s
Date
1920 to 1959
Description
An image of the Mount Whitney Highway across Owens Valley in Lone Pine, California. Transcribed upon the bottom of the image: "View from new Mt. Whitney Highway across Owens Valley, Alabama Hills, oldest formations in U.S. middle distance, Lone Pine, California."
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Map of California, and territories of Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, 1864
Date
1864
Description
'Johnson's California, also Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, published by A.J. Johnson, New York.' 'Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by A.J. Johnson in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the southern district of New York.' Atlas page numbers in upper margin: 67-68. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich and Washington. Shows natural features, locations of Indian tribes, proposed railroad routes, routes of explorers, trails, county boundaries and populated places. Hand colored. On verso: 'Historical and statistical view of the West India Islands or Columbian Archipelago' (p. 80) and 'Historical and statistical view of Mexico and Central America' (p. 79). Scale [ca. 1:3,484,800]. 1 in. to ca. 55 miles (W 124°--W 102°/N 42°--N 32°).
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Map showing water pipeline serving H. C. Wheeler, Arden, Nevada, November 1929
Date
1929-11
Description
Hand-drawn map. '2-W-214' hand-printed in lower right corner. Scale: 1" = 400'.
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Southern Nevada Photo Album, image 006
Description
Imperial Valley Band. El Centro, California, ca. 1925.
UNLV University Libraries Collection on Nevada Mining
Identifier
MS-00011
Abstract
The Nevada Mining Collection is comprised of records that document mining and mines in Nevada from 1842 to 1966. The majority of the collection includes records of various mines and mining companies located in the Esmeralda, Lincoln, Clark, White Pine, and Nye counties, dating from 1900 to 1928. The collection includes financial, administrative, and business related records; photographs of miners, mining camps, and towns; correspondence; maps; newspaper clippings, pamphlets, newsletters, and booklets.
Archival Collection
Close up view of the first airmail plane in Las Vegas and a view of the crowd surrounding the plane: photographic print, negative, and slide, approximately 1900 to 1910
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Archival Collection
Leon Rockwell Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00008
Collection Name: Leon Rockwell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 04, Box SH-015, Binder PB-001 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Leon Rockwell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 04, Box SH-015, Binder PB-001 (Restrictions apply)
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Geologic map of the Frenchman Flat quadrangle, Nye, Lincoln, and Clark Counties, Nevada, 1965
Date
1965
Description
58 x 47 cm., on sheet 81 x 81 cm., folded in envelope 30 x 24 cm. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Geology mapped in 1962. Contours on pre-Cenozoic rocks by D. L. Healey and C. H. Miller, 1958-63." Includes text, col. cross section and quadrangle location map. "Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission." Original publisher: Interior, Geological Survey, Series: Geologic quadrangle map GQ, Scale: 1:24 000.
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