Nevada State Library and Archives

The Atomic Testing Museum
Desert Research Institute
795 East Flamingo Rd., Las Vegas, NV
Contact:  702-794-5151

Monday-Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sunday 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m.
Admission:  yes, varies

Clark County Library Special Collections

Hours:  varies by branch, contact library for specific times
Charge: No

Photo:  Desert between Las Vegas and Goodsprings with a Joshua tree in the background.  Las Vegas pioneers Floyd and Earl Rockwell and their mother are enjoying the scenery.  Courtesy of the Special Collections Department, UNLV.

Open:  Wednesday-Saturday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Charge: Yes

Photos:  Courtsey of the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas.

Right:  Shoshone children at Manhattan, NV, 1906.  Photo #114

 Left:  Frank, Angelina, and John Detra, n.d. (ca 1920s).  The Detra Family built the Pair-O-Dice nightclub in Las Vegas in 1931, one of the city's earliest "carpet joints."   Photo #6276

Las Vegas family, ca 1900-1910s.  Photo #5120

Wedding at the Little Church of the West at the Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas.  The older couple/witnesses are Dorothy and Tony Lucey, owners of Nevada Bar Supply.  ca 1949.  Photo #7327

Frontier Hotel and Casino cocktail waitresses at the Royal Nevada Hotel in Las Vegas.  L-R:  Jojo Hernancez, JoAnn (Hardman) Zwerling, Toni Wilson, and Donna.  ca 1955-1957.  Photo #0011:0017

Top-bottom:  Helen J. Stewart, daughter Evaline La Vega [Stewart] Stay, and grandson Clarence Archie Stay (son of Eva and Clarence Stay) taken in Las Vegas, ca 1919.  Helen J. Stewart sold her land at the Las Vegas Ranch to Senator William Clark for the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railroad.  Clark's townsite was auctioned in May 1905 and became the city of Las Vegas.  Photo #0012:0003

Dinner and a show at the Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, 1955.  Photo #7353

Camping at Las Vegas Creek, ca 1900s.  Photo #5278

 Baby shower (for seated woman) given by the Frontier Hotel and Casino cocktail waitresses, ca 1956.  "Flash" McAdams, photographer.  Photo #0011:0205

Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Auxiliary meeting in Las Vegas, 1947.  Photo #1544

L-R: Paul Hornung, JoAnn (Hardman) Zwerling, and Barney Shapiro at the El Rancho Vegas Hotel and Casino, June 14, 1957.  "Golden Boy" Hornung played football for the Green Bay Packers, 1957-1966.  Shapiro was part owner of the Royal Nevada Hotel and Casino and manufactured gaming machines in San Francisco, CA.  Photo #0011:0205

Photo:  Western Air Express' inaugural of the first regular air mail service from Las Vegas, April 17, 1926 at Rockwell Field.  Rockwell Field is now the Sahara Hotel Parking lot.  Courtesy of the Special Collections Department, UNLV.

Daily, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Admission:  yes, varies

Daily 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 7 days a week
Admission:  yes, varies

For a list of Nevada records repositories see Nevada's Documentary Heritage" Project

Photos:  Courtesy of  UNLV Special Collections

Left:  The Helen J. Stewart family, l-r:  Frank J. Stewart (2nd husband), Will Stewart, Helen Stewart, Eva Stewart, Hyrum Stewart, and Tiza Stewart.  Helen J. Stewart Collection, 0104-0141.

Helen J. Stewart and daughters Lena, Eva, Tiza, and Dreame Gann in front of Helen's home.  Helen J. Stewart Collection, 0104-0139

Left:  Helen J. Stewart and daughters Eva and Tiza.  Helen J. Stewart Collection, 0104-0134

"First winter in Las Vegas."  Taken at C.P. Squires' house on Fremont Street, Christmas, 1906.  C.P. Squires Collection, 0002-130

 Wedding of "Ma Kennedy," mother of Amy Semple McPherson at Hoover Dam.  "What a man and Ma."  Next to groom:  Art Ham, Celia Cragin, Veronica and Harley Harmon, Alice Campbell.  Next to bride is Myrile Taylor, ?, and Eunice Cragin.  C.P. Squires Collection, 0002-0131

The first family in the Carver District of Henderson, NV, designed by noted Black architect Paul Williams.  L-R: Robert C. Williams, his wife Rosie Lee Williams, and their children Theodore, Cleopatra, Roscoe, Clarice, and Yvonne.   October 13, 1943.  Photo #0254-0065

 
The Rivero family, an early Hispanic family in Las Vegas, photographed at Tule Springs, ca 1938.  L-R:  Celia Rivero, Johnny Weber, cousin Alfonso Rivero,  mother Margarita Rivero,  and aunt Maria Chuey Weber.  Father Frank Rivero owned 3 restaurants, including Franks's Cafe, on 1st St. near Fremont.  Note artesian well.  Photo #0052-0009