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Map of Las Vegas, Nevada, July 1947

Date
1947
Description
'Prepared by Porter & White Agency. Typography by Marc Wilkinson.' 'Travel-Aid. A Ballinger publication, copyright, July 1947.' Panel title: 'Las Vegas, Nevada invites you! : see Boulder Dam, Lake Mead.' Includes information on Las Vegas, business directory, advertisements and directory of service clubs. Advertisements, map of Boulder City, and map of southern Nevada area with advertisements on verso. Ballinger Publishing Company.

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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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Map of Oregon and upper California from the surveys of John Charles Frémont and other authorities, 1848

Date
1848
Description
'Drawn by Charles Preuss under the order of the Senate of the United States, Washington City, 1848.' 'Lithy. by E. Weber & Co., Balto.' Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows area of U.S. west of the Continental Divide. Includes explanatory notes and shows Frémont's exploring routes in 1842, 1844 and 1846. Scale 1:3,000,000 (W 124°--W 112°/N 42°--N 32°).

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Map of part of Las Vegas Valley showing contours of the composite piezometric surface during the spring of 1944, and specific capacities of wells tapping the confined water

Date
1948
Description

Relief shown by contours. Includes range and township grid. Shows springs and wells. Scale [ca. 1:67,162. 1 in. to approx. 1.06 miles]. Series: Water resources bulletin (Carson City, Nev.)
no. 5. Originally published as plate 8 in Geology and water resources of Las Vegas, Pahrump, and Indian Spring Valleys, Clark and Nye Counties, Nevada by George B. Maxey and C.H. Jameson, which is number 5 of the Water resources bulletin published by the Nevada Office of the State Engineer.

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Map of part of Las Vegas Valley showing the piezometric surface of the "near-surface" water during the spring of 1946 by contours, and areas of discharge by evaporation and transpiration

Date
1946
Description

Relief shown by contours. Includes range and township grid. Shows springs, wells and areas of discharge. Scale [ca. 1:67,162. 1 in. to approx. 1.06 miles]. Series: Water resources bulletin (Carson City, Nev.)
no. 5. Originally published as plate 7 in Geology and water resources of Las Vegas, Pahrump, and Indian Spring Valleys, Clark and Nye Counties, Nevada by George B. Maxey and C.H. Jameson, which is number 5 of the Water resources bulletin published by the Nevada Office of the State Engineer.

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