This gallery contains a sampling of images that are available within the Photograph Collections of UNLV Special Collections. All photographs are property of UNLV Special Collections and cannot be reproduced without prior permission. To request copies or for further information, please contact Kelli Luchs at kelli.luchs@unlv.edu or (702) 895-2247. For more images, see the UNLV Special Collections Digital Collections and Exhibits page. |
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| Hoover Dam construction nearing completion (Collection # 0100, Photo # 0477). | Close-up of Las Vegas children in the snow (Collection # 0003, Photo # 0020). | |
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| The Sands marquee shows the range of stars that appeared at the resort (Collection # 0287, Photo # 0393). | Dean Martin onstage--see more within the Dino at the Sands exhibit (Collection # 0287, Photo# 0420). | |
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| Flamingo Hotel, exterior, night view (Collection # 0100, Photo # 1800). |
The Helldorado Parade was an annual event in Las Vegas for many years. Here are the Tropicana's showgirls, promoted as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" (Collection # 0245, Photo # 0004). | |
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| First State Bank of Las Vegas. (c.1905) (Collection # 0214, Photo # 0166). | McCarran Field was the original air gateway to Las Vegas. Special Collections has many resources for Las Vegas's transportation infrastructure (Collection # 0049, Photo # 0004). | |
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| Fremont Street at night, intersection, 2nd, looking west (Collection # 0100, Photo # 0020). | Revue show impresario Donn Arden shows his showgirls how its done. Arden brought the first topless revue, the Stardust's Lido de Paris, to the Strip in 1958 (Collection # 0328, Photo # 0149). | |
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| Copagirl Linda Lawson as "Mis-Cue", wearing A-Bomb crown to illustrate another mis-firing of the Operation Cue Bomb. (1955) She is surrounded by servicemen (Collection # 0287,0180 ). | Copagirl Linda Lawson as "Mis-Cue" wearing A-Bomb Crown. (1955) She is surrounded by servicemen (Collection # 0287,0181). | |
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| Parade float, "Nevada's First Atomic Bomb (Collection # 0107, Photo # 0018) | "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign. c. 19591960 (Nellis Airforce Base Collection # 0028, Photo # 0391) | |
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| Barbary Coast (Single Item Accessions Collection # 0171, Photo # 0157) | Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn (Manis Collection # 0100, Photo # 0119) | |
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| Flamingo Hotel, Las Vehgas, Nevada, ca. late 1940s (Las Vegas News Bureau Collection # 0049, Photo # 0395) | Nevada, El Rancho Vegas (Davis Collection #0020, Photo # 0018) | |
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| 107 Early Las Vegas. Fremont Street (Union Pacific Railroad Collection # 0043, Photo # 0142) | Atomic bomb test - mushroom cloud with Fremont Street Casinos in foreground. April 18, 1953 (Las Vegas News Bureau Coll # 0044, 0414) | |
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| Arizona Club, Las Vegas (Helen J. Stewart Collection # 0104, Photo # 0088) | Will Clark's Desert Inn (Manis Collection # 0100, Photo # 0119) | |
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| Ranch house south wall of Las Vegas Fort (Collection # 0104, Photo # 0030). | Las Vegas School, flag pole ceremony, ca 1915-16 (Collection # 0010, Photo 0023). | |
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| Championship table at the World Series of Poker, 1976, taken from the Binion's Horseshoe collection (Collection #0318, photo # 0057). | Southern Paiute wickiups, 1877 (Collection # 0171, Photo # 0272). | |
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| Craps game in the El Morroco on the Westside of Las Vegas in the 1950s, as detailed in the oral history of Clarence Ray (Collection # 0326, Photo # 0004). | Atomic bomb test—mushroom cloud with Fremont Street in foreground. April 18, 1953 (Collection # 0049, 0414). | |
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| Sign out front of the Aladdin in Las Vegas (c. 1960s). (Bill Willard Collection # 0333, Photo # 0140) | El Rancho Vegas, c. 1950s (Union Pacific Railroad Collection #0043, Photo # 0186) | |
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| Residences, 10-12-31 (Union Pacific Railroad Collection # 0043, Photo # 0101) | Color postcard of Fremont Street with mushroom cloud in Middle of Photo directly above UPRR Depot, dusk (Harmon Family Collection # 0182, Photo # 0041) | |
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