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Film transparency of women's precision marching team entry in the Helldorado Parade on Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, May, 1958

Date

1958-05

Description

A women's precision marching team entry in the Helldorado Parade on Fremont Street. They are in front of the Boulder Club, located at 118 Fremont street. The Boulder Club was in operation from 1931-1960. A sign on the Boulder Club reads ""Farmer" Page - Enjoy the Old West - Jackpots, Craps, Bar, Keno, Roulette, Twenty-One." They have just passed Joe W. Brown's Horseshoe Club (in operation from 1935-1958), located 128 Fremont Street at the corner of Fremont Street and 2nd Street. The Hotel Apache and Fremont Casino are visible in the background.

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Film transparency of the Hotel Sahara float entry in the Helldorado Parade on Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, May, 1958

Date

1958-05

Description

The Hotel Sahara float entry in the Helldorado Parade, May 1958. The float is titled "Hotel Sahara Toasts Wondrous Women." Smaller sections of the float are names "Birth of Venus" featuring a woman seated in a large clam shell that is being pulled by a large seahorse. The main portion of the float features three women seated beneath a large champagne glass, and a fourth woman seated on a large throne made of flowers. A side section of the float is titled "Joan of Arc," but the woman is obscured behind the horse sculpture she is riding. They are in front of the Boulder Club, located at 118 Fremont Street. The Boulder Club was in operation from 1931-1960. A sign on the Boulder Club reads ""Farmer" Page - Enjoy the Old West - Jackpots, Craps, Bar, Keno, Roulette, Twenty-One." They have just passed Joe W. Brown's Horseshoe Club (in operation from 1935-1958), located 128 Fremont Street at the corner of Fremont Street and 2nd Street. The Hotel Apache and the Fremont Casino are visible in the background.

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Photograph of Valda Boyne Esau and two other Bluebell girls in the third Lido show at Stardust Hotel, Las Vegas, October 1961

Date

1961-10

Archival Collection

Description

Color photograph of (L-R): Valda Boyne Esau, Valevue, Pamela Smith Kreichbaumer, three of the Bluebell girls who are in costume for Russian number in the third Lido show at the Stardust.

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Photograph of Valda Boyne Esau and Jill Salisbury at new Stardust Golf Course, Las Vegas, 1960

Date

1960

Archival Collection

Description

Black and white image of (L-R): Valda Boyne Esau and Jill Salisbury posing for a publicity photo for the new Stardust Golf Course.

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Photograph of Valda Boyne Esau and Esper Esau with Sylvia Harris at the closing of the Lido, Stardust Hotel, Las Vegas, Feburary 1, 1991.

Date

1958-06

Archival Collection

Description

Color image of Valda Boyne and Esper Esau (right) with Sylvia Harris at the closing show of the Lido at the Stardust Hotel.

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Photograph of Wilbur Clark with Patrice, Sylvia Harris, and Valda Boyne Esau at New York airport, June 1958

Date

1958-06

Archival Collection

Description

Black and white image of Wilbur Clark with (L-R): Patrice, Sylvia Harris, and Valda Boyne Esau in the New York City airport.

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Photograph of Valda Boyne Esau and some of the Bluebell girls for a mini- reunion at the Stardust Hotel, Las Vegas, Oct 18, 2006.

Date

2006-10-18

Archival Collection

Description

Color image of (L-R): Rosalind (Sydney, Aus), Annette (Nice, France), Julie (House hostess), Valda Boyne Esau (Sedona, Az), Penny Parfitt (California) posing at a mini-reunion for the Bluebell Girls.

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Photograph of Lavinia Tom Meyers on the Moapa Indian Reservation in Nevada, circa late 1940s/early 1950s

Date

1945 to 1955

Archival Collection

Description

Lavinia Tom Meyers. The photograph was taken on the Moapa Indian Reservation in Nevada. The Tom house is in the background. Circa late 1940s/early 1950s. (Photograph identified by Janet Myers August 12, 2011)

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Photograph of Luella Tom on the Moapa Indian Reservation in Nevada, June 1962

Date

1962-06

Archival Collection

Description

Luella Tom on the Moapa Indian Reservation in Nevada, June 1962. (Photograph identified by Janet Myers August 12, 2011)

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Photograph of three people at Hidden Ranch Camp, Pahrump, Nevada, circa 1880s-1900s

Date

1880 to 1909

Archival Collection

Description

An unidentified woman inspecting a hand plow, while an unidentified woman and unidentified man watch at the Hidden Ranch Camp in Pahrump Valley, Nevada.

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