These files focus on Benny Binion and his family, primarily Ted and Jack. Other clippings deal with general operations of the Horseshoe Casino, including news items on new promotions introduced at the Horseshoe such as the stagecoach, bingo room and slot tournaments. In addition there is a significant file on Eric and Jane Drache, primarily Eric as he was former director of the WSOP and co-managed the Ten Deuce Poker Room at the Silverbird Casino with Doyle Brunson. There are also three albums containing clippings from 1986 and 1987; which chronicle the newspaper coverage of WSOP events and personalities.
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These files reflect some of the outside activities of the Binions' in the Las Vegas community as well as lesser known business activities inside the Horseshoe.
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Examples of photographic subjects include scenes and closeups of some years of the World Series of Poker tournaments; Horseshoe Casino interiors, exteriors, roadside billboards and renovations; Binion's Montana ranch; and Jack Binion doing promotional giveaways for the Horseshoe.
The majority of photographic items are prints which can be found in black and white as well as color. There are also negatives and contact sheets, almost all of which duplicate prints already existing in the collection.
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The artwork is mostly related to World Series of Poker events and personalities and the Binion family. Also included in this series are photograph albums from World Series of Poker tournaments in 1974 and 1979, an album recording a 1970s-era golfing trip among players, plaques and certificates of appreciation for the Binions' donations to philanthropic causes, and part of the proceedings of the 1981 WSOP.
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The audiovisual materials consist of twenty-two videotape cassettes and eighteen audiotape cassettes. The audiotape cassettes primarily document the World Series of Poker in the early 1980s, while the videotape cassettes are mostly brief news releases with topics that range broadly across the whole collection.
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