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Map of California, territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Utah, circa 1863

Date
1861 to 1865
Description
40 x 62 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Historical and statistical view of the United States, 1860"--Verso. Atlas page numbers at top: 58-59. Arizona became a territory in 1863, and Nevada became a state on October 31, 1864, so this map was either published in 1863 or in 1864 before the end of October. Original publisher: Johnson and Ward.

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Map of approved mineral surveys in the Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada, 1911

Date
1911
Description
'Compiled from records of the U.S. Surveyor General and other authentic sources by Davis and Byler, Mining Engineers, Goldfield, Nevada. Copyright 1908 by Davis and Byler. 1911.' Scale [ca. 1:9,600]. 1 in. to 800 feet. (W 117°14'--W 117°09'/N 37°46'--N 37°41'). Blueline print. Includes township and range grid. Library's copy has upper-left corner torn off and has circles drawn around and diagonal lines drawn on certain claims.

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Register of the Hotel Nevada, July 1, 1910-Sept. 12, 1911

Date
1910 to 1911
Description

Guest register for the Hotel Nevada which opened on the southeast corner of Main Street and Fremont Street in Las Vegas in 1906. This particular volume lists guest names and their home cities for the period spanning July 1910 through September 1911.
Site Name: Hotel Nevada (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Stock certificate from the Nevada Keystone Mining Company, June 20, 1903

Date
1903-06-20
Description
Stock certificate from the Nevada Keystone Mining Company, June 20, 1903

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Map showing right of way of toll road constructed by Nevada Rapid Transit Co. in Lincoln County, State of Nevada

Date
1905-08-10
Description
Shows right of way of what now is Interstate 95 through what is now Clark County, Nevada. 'Aug. 10, 1905.' 'Adopted as toll road of Nevada Rapid Transit Company at meeting of Board of Directors of said company Aug. 25th, 1905. Attest W.H. Comstock, secretary, J. Ross Clark, president.' 'Book I, page 3'--Lower right corner. '... No. ... Recorded at ... [signed] J. Ross Clark ... September 1st A.D. 1905 at 40 ... past 8 A.M. to Book of Platts, Pages ... Lincoln Co. Nev. Record ... [signed] Henry Lee ...'--upper right portion of map. Seal of the Nevada Rapid Transit Company in lower left portion of map. Scale [ca. 126,720]. 1 in.=2 miles 1 map. Blueline print.

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Map of part of Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, showing the approximate area of artesian flow, 1965

Date
1965
Description
At top of map: 'United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey. Water supply paper 1780, plate 2.' At bottom of map: 'Base from U.S. Geological Survey Las Vegas (1952) and Henderson (1952) quadrangles.' 'Interior--Geological Survey, Washigton, D.C.--1965--W63358.' Relief shown by contours. Includes township and range lines. Thematic map. Scale 1:62,500 (W 115°15´--W 114°45´/N 36°15´--N 36°00´). Series: Water-supply paper (Washington, D.C.)
1780. Originally published as plate 2 of Available water supply of the Las Vegas ground-water basin, Nevada, by Glenn T. Malmberg, published by the Geological Survey in 1965 as its Water-supply paper 1780.

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Children sitting in front of their school house. Back row: John Francis and Effa Francis; middle row: Pearl Francis, Louise Fogliani, and Olympia Fogliani; front row: Jack Fogliani, David Francis, and William Francis (identified from left to right): Spring Valley, Nevada: photograph, approximately 1900 to 1909

Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Pearl Francis Neeley Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00091
Collection Name: Pearl Francis Neeley Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

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Map of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona & New Mexico, circa 1867

Date
1865 to 1869
Description
39 x 62 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridian: Greenwich and Washington. Hand colored. Shows natural features, populated places, routes of mail steamships, routes of explorers, locations of Indian tribes, railroad routes, and proposed railroad routes. In top margin: No. 80-81. On verso: New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Dakota (statistics and other information) and The state of California (statistics and other information). Original publisher: G.W. and C.B. Colton.

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Tonopah, Nevada Mining Town Photograph Album

Identifier
PH-00411
Abstract

The Tonopah, Nevada Mining Town Photograph Album (approximately 1908) consists of twenty-two photographs in a leather-bound album. The photographs depict businesses, townspeople, street scenes, and mining operations in Tonopah, Nevada and the surrounding areas of Goldfield, Nevada and Mina, Nevada. Also included are photographs of a fire on May 12, 1908 that destroyed a block of commercial buildings in Tonopah, which were taken by local photographer E. W. Smith., and views of the downtown area both before and after the fire.

Archival Collection

Geologic map and sections of area along Colorado River between Lake Mead and Davis Dam, Arizona and Nevada, 1963

Date
1963
Description
At top of map: 'United States, Department of Interior, Geological Survey. Professional Paper 374-E, plate 1.' In lower right corner of map: 'Geology mapped by C.R. Longwell.' Relief shown by contours. Includes seven colored cross-sections. Scale 1:125,000 (W 114°50´--W 114°20´/N 36°10´--N 35°10´). Series: Shorter contributions to general geology. Professional paper (Geological Survey (U.S.))
374-E. Originally published as plate 1 in: Reconnaissance geology between Lake Mead and Davis Dam, Arizona-Nevada / by Chester R. Longwell, published by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1963 in the series Shorter contributions to general geology and as Geological Survey professional paper 374-E.

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