Nevada Digital Newspaper Project

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Hello friends! We have exciting #ChronAm news! 😁

This week, the Library of Congress {@ChronAmLOC} announced a new interactive map of all newspapers in Chronicling America! ➡️ https://t.co/2xdnBjQsmY

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Congratulations to New Hampshire in joining the #NDNP family!

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Happy 50th to us! With @Dartmouth
joining NDNP as state project partner for #NewHampshire, we're happy to announce that in 2023 Chronicling America will include content from all 50 states & 2 US territories. https://t.co/WdUVFOSL61
@NEH_PresAccess
#ChronAm #PresAccessFunded

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Hi, friends! 🙂👋

Our twitter will be going on a mini-hiatus for a bit! As a parting gift, we leave you with this article about the "beautiful streets" of Las Vegas. ❤️

"Las Vegas is a really beautiful little city"

📰: Las Vegas Age (1932)
🔗: https://t.co/fNYRr1AeJ5 #ChronAm

[_GrandpaD__Old School Vegas✨ @_GrandPaD]

Gorgeous sunset view of Fremont Street Downtown #LasVegas . The "wise guys" throughout the #Vegas Valley flocked to @fremont to hear Jerry Vale.

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Check out a few tidbits from our upcoming exhibit “Victorian Vanguards: Female Authors of the Late 19th Century” curated by Peter Michel and drawn from the collection of Bev Rogers.

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#OnThisDay in Nevada history: registered vehicles in the state were on the rise! It was estimated there would be 15,000 registrations by 1923. New license plates would be black & yellow. 🚗🚙🚕💨

📰: Carson City Daily Appeal (1922)
🔗: https://t.co/T3EortzFGR #NDNP #ChronAm #OTD

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This is a UNLV Digital Collection image of a pond and some farmed land in the Pahrump Valley dated Jul 28, 1951. This is likely a pond on the Dorothys Lazy 88 Ranch in Pahrump Valley. UNLV: https://t.co/oWGvm7uXC5
The population of Nye County in 1950 was about 3,100.

[Vintage Las Vegas @summacorp]

Fremont & Main, 1941. View from the top of Union Pacific station, looking east. Photo by Glenn Davis, Vegas Studio.

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The Jul 27, 1864 Gold Hill News reported on some minor confrontations at the Washoe Herald newspaper office in Virginia City, Nevada Territory. https://t.co/tasUlFSN87
"... the whole matter ended in a skirmish, in which both parties failed to be killed."

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Happy #WackyWednesday, folks! 🤪

Here's a funny story about a man who was overjoyed to learn his tomato plant was growing its first tomato... until he noticed the tomato was tied on with a string! 🍅🧵

📰: Daily Independent (1911)
🔗: https://t.co/L3ICpBIPof #NDNP #ChronAm

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Anyone enjoying camp this summer? 🏕️😎 ☀️

Back in 1938, an all-women camp named "Skyland" was opened in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. It was Nevada's first camp solely for farm women!

📰: Las Vegas Age (1938)
🔗: https://t.co/AhKQ8RhZcU #NDNP #ChronAm

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This Jul 26, 1935 photo shows almost the entire height of the intake towers behind Hoover Dam as Lake Mead is being filled. UNLV Digital Collections photo. https://t.co/Pnr2D9yaBP

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#FlashbackFriday to the spirit of Las Vegas from 1928! ✨

This article wonders how future Vegas will look (skyscrapers?) & if people will look back to Vegas Pioneers and think "they must have had some nerve."

📰: Las Vegas Age (1928)
🔗: https://t.co/4FguyEZ0oq #NDNP #ChronAm

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Happy Thursday, folks! 🙂👋 Enjoy this "Home Sweet Home" comic from The Pioche Record dated July 21, 1922:

📰: The Pioche Record (1922)
🔗: https://t.co/gQrMZQbVXX #NDNP #ChronAm

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Unfortunately, an abundance of water also led to an abundance of water waste. People would let their lawn sprinklers run for 24 hours a day or have artesian wells would flow without any restrictions... (yikes😳) ⤵️

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#ThrowbackThursday to the days when water was abundant in Las Vegas! This article from 1934 describes how the town acquired so much water:

"Las Vegas has been most fortunate in its water supply." 💧

📰: Las Vegas Age (1934)
🔗: https://t.co/oU1l0Vv9QS #NDNP #ChronAm

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According to the Jul 26, 1876 Lyon County Times, David Burrier drowned near the Big Bend of the Carson River (now under Lahontan Reservoir) trying to cross with his horse on Jul 20, 1876. Burrier (or Burier) was buried in the Fort Churchill cemetery. https://t.co/wE1E3en8ZH

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A dramatic near collision of two trains going the opposite directions on the same track on the Pioche & Bullionville Railroad was reported in the Jul 20, 1873 Pioche Record. https://t.co/r7GzJLvzvA
"...when they finally stopped they were not over six feet apart."

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The Las Vegas Age of Jul 20, 1929 noted that the number of business permits paid in the first few weeks of Jul 1929 was more than one third that of all of 1928. Based on this, Las Vegas must be growing.
https://t.co/GaY1KjF9fU

[Vintage Las Vegas @summacorp]

A Little White Chapel, 1301 Las Vegas Blvd S – 1958. Photo by Darrell Clayton Crain Jr.

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UNLV Digital Collections has a photo of southern Nevada pioneer Joseph Ira Earl (in the grey derby hat) on his ranch in Bunkerville, NV from Jul 20, 1905. Earl was 54 at the time. https://t.co/7E5ViCqBxu
Note: Not to be confused with his son, Ira Joseph Earl.