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Protestors seated at Nevada Test Site: photographic slide

Date
1987-04
Description

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352)

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Photograph of Nevada substation, Hoover Dam (Nev.), circa 1932

Date
1931 to 1933
Description
Note with image: "This is where the Nevada sub-station is. Compressor was carried in pieces by the mules and reassembled... It took all day just to walk here and back, I mean all day." " Notes on back of image: "Building power substation above Boulder Dam, Air compressor in foreground, c. 1932. Cleaning surface prior to building sub-station. Dual generator with eight tires was pushed up to this location with bulldozers. - W. A. Davis, 1992."

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Petroglyphs at Southwest Las Vegas Valley, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1987 (year approximate)
Description
From the Eileen Margaret Green Photograph Collection (PH-00229) -- Southwest Las Vegas Valley, kneeling hunter petroglyph. Handwritten on envelope, "Kneeling hunter, Las Vegas Valley SW. (from her MA thesis. A Cultural Ecological Approach to the Rock Art of Southern Nevada, GN 799 P4 G73x 1987a)". Handwritten on the back of the photograph, "Figure 20. Kneeling hunter, Las Vegas Valley SW."

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Exterior of The Mint Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1960 (year approximate) to 1980 (year approximate)
Description
From the Mint Hotel Photograph Collection (PH-00235) -- Printed on back of card: "The Mint Hotel-Casino on famed Fremont Street, Downtown Las vegas. Famous world wide for its free public tours "BEHIND THE SCENES," scenic outside glass elevator and romantic Top O' The Mint steakhouse and dance lounge. Luxurious rooms honeycomb The Mint skyscraper - tallest building in Nevada and "Biggest Sleeper in Las Vegas"."

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