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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

Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Leon Rockwell Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00008
Collection Name: Leon Rockwell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 04, Box SH-015, Binder PB-001 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

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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Nevada Biltmore Hotel Collection

Identifier
MS-00479
Abstract

The collection dates from 1942 to 1986 and contains a scrapbook and other materials related to the Nevada Biltmore built by Robert Brooks in Las Vegas, Nevada. The scrapbook includes photographs of the resort and newspaper clippings. It also contains some materials from the Seven Seas restaurant owned by Brooks in Hollywood, California. The collection includes newspaper clippings related to Las Vegas gaming and politics, some photographs of Bob Brooks and his wife Jewel at social events in Las Vegas, and a Biltmore menu and stationary.

Archival Collection

Dorothy Ray Photograph Collection on Southern Nevada

Identifier
PH-00161
Abstract

The Dorothy Ray Photograph Collection on Southern Nevada, approximately 1900-1946, depicts infrastructure in Caliente, Nevada in the early to mid-twentieth century. The collection also contains images of a flash flood that occurred in 1905 in Carp, Nevada and Stine, Nevada that washed away roads and railroad tracks. This collection provides historical documentation about early to mid-century Caliente, Nevada.

Archival Collection

C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada

Identifier
PH-00350
Abstract

The C. A. Earle Rinker Photograph Collection of Goldfield, Nevada (approximately 1900-1915) contains individual black-and-white photographic prints, photographic albums, black-and-white and tinted postcards, and photographic negatives that document the history of early twentieth century Goldfield, Nevada. The images include photographic prints of Goldfield and surrounding areas during its peak years of 1906-1910; postcards showing scenes of Goldfield, Tonopah, and other areas in central Nevada; and negatives that contain images of Rinker's family and homelife in Indiana and Illinois.

Archival Collection

Nevada Library Notes

Date
1964 to 1967
Description

Nevada Library Notes, Vol. 1-4 issued by the Nevada State Library. Materials about the news of library activities and articles for publication by Nevada librarians. It also contains minutes of the 18th annual convention. 

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