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Las Vegas periphery

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Description: A series of 10 photographs by photographer Laurie Brown depicting the construction sites, dwellings, infrastructure, and landscape in suburban Las Vegas, Nevada, as part of a long-term visual investigation of the region by the artist.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1991-2009.
Call number: photCL 543
Creator: Brown, Laurie (1937-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Laurie Brown, July 2014.; Purchased from Laurie Brown, July 2014.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curator approval. Extended retrieval and delivery time required.

Las Vegas Hot Springs, 1882

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The Las Vegas Hot Springs and surroundings near Las Vegas, New Mexico.

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UNLV Sports Arena (Thomas & Mack Center), University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Number of items: 3 sheets Location: Las Vegas (Nev.) Collaborator(s): John Carl Warnecke and Associates (architects), W2C (architects)

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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Photographs of Owens Valley and Las Vegas, Nevada

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Intake 2, Dam construction at Lake Sabrina and South Lake, Plant 2 and cottages, Plant 4, recreation building, Plant 5, Silver Peak Substation, Las Vegas train station and surrounding town.

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Typescript of Bean's 1855-1856 diary, which details interactions between Mormon missionaries at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and local Indians, including baptisms, trade, and some hostilities. Included are Bean's account of a journey from Las Vegas to California across the Mojave in October-November 1855 (which included stops in San Bernardino, Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Mission, and El Monte) and of travels between Las Vegas and the "Colorado Muddy" in 1856. Bean also references an encounter with the "murderers" of J.W. Gunnison, an Army captain killed in an Indian massacre in 1853; remarks on the camp visit of explorers Jules Remy and Julius Lucius Brenchley, who published "A Journey to Great Salt Lake City" in 1861; mentions his attendance of a performance of J.H. Martineau's "Missouri Persecutions;" and describes various interactions with Las Vegas Mission President William Bringhurst. The diary concludes with a series of prayers/poems dedicated to "The Wives and Families of the L.V. Missionaries," "The Pioneers of '47," and "Pres. B. Young and His Counselors," as well as the minutes of a meeting held "under the Bowery" at Las Vegas on June 24, 1856 and minutes of a celebration of the Fourth of July at Las Vegas, and a song entitled, "I Got Drunk Again."

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Miscellaneous [images in California and Nevada]

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Views of Shasta Dam; the Pioneer Club Casino in Laughlin, Nevada; the Westerner Casino in Las Vegas; landscapes; views of a burnt forest; unidentified gardens; and a barbecue grill.

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Las Vegas

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A collection of glass plate and film negatives by amateur photographer and Los Angeles real estate broker George P. Thresher focusing on the American Southwest and Native Americans of the region, particularly of Arizona, and the Gila River crossing area, from ca. 1898 to 1910. The majority of the Thresher Collection contains images of towns and sites in Arizona, including Phoenix, Mission San Xavier del Bac, Montezuma Castle, Peach Springs, and adobe ruins. Photographs of Texas are well represented in the collection, including many views of Missions San Concepcion, San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), San Francisco de la Espada, and Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo. There are also images of Colorado (Garden of the Gods, Pike's Peak, and Castle Rock), New Mexico (Santa Fe, Tesuque, and possibly Laguna), and unidentified pueblos. Notable portraits from California are of Victoriano, chief of the Soboba Indians, and his unnamed third wife. There is a separate and very interesting sequence of images depicting the Mount Beauty Mine and its operations in San Diego County, California. A small assortment of lantern slides is at the end of the collection showing Indians of Arizona, California, and New Mexico.

photCL 449

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