Materials include state, federal, and international legislation concerning gambling, news reports about gaming regulation, and reports about gaming from 1948 to 2005 collected by Eugene Martin Christiansen. The materials are primarily comprised of news articles, reports, and legislation concerning legal gambling in the United States at the state level. The materials also include news reports about gambling in various countries and how the governments of those countries regulate legal gambling or enforce bans on illegal gambling.

Materials include news reports, racetrack annual reports, hotel and casino annual reports, correspondence, and research notes about racetracks, casinos, and hotels from 1950 to 2009 collected by Eugene Martin Christiansen. The materials consist of newspaper articles about building new racetracks and casinos, the impacts of building new gambling establishments, tourism, market research, companies interested in purchasing or selling gaming ventures, and the events held at certain venues.

Materials include conference brochures, conference schedules, conference presentations and summaries, newsletters and bulletins, and correspondence related to Eugene Martin Christiansen’s work as a gaming consultant from 1974 to 2012. The conference materials are primarily comprised of brochures, information packets, copies of presentations by Christiansen and other speakers, travel arrangements, registration information, and invitations. The newsletter and bulletins materials are comprised of newsletters and bulletins published by horse racing companies and interest groups, casinos and casino market research firms, and tourism research firms. The correspondence materials are primarily correspondence between Christiansen and other gaming researchers, casinos, state gaming control boards and other state agencies, gaming companies, banks and financial institutions, municipalities, and trade publications. The materials also include phone directories for Christiansen Capital Advisors.

Materials contain newspaper articles and publications on gambling from 1950 to 2011 collected by Eugene Martin Christiansen. The materials are primarily comprised of newspaper articles on subjects such as legal and illegal gaming, crime, taxes, proposed gaming legislation and regulations, casino games, pari-mutuel wagering, bankruptcies and lawsuits, casino design, and casino licensing.

Materials contain newspaper articles, correspondence, and legal memoranda concerning the administration of lotteries in the United States and Canada from 1978 to 2006 compiled by Eugene Martin Christiansen. The files are primarily newspaper articles about state regulation of lotteries, internet lotteries, and proposed privatization of lotteries.

Materials contain newspaper articles, correspondence, and research notes on prominent individuals and companies in the gaming and entertainment industries from 1975 to 2002. The files are primarily comprised of newspaper articles about casino owners and gaming companies, but the files also contain correspondence and information on gaming researchers and Eugene Martin Christiansen’s colleagues and peers.

Materials contain reports, presentations, and articles written by Eugene Martin Christiansen from 1967 to 2017. The materials include reports written for Christiansen/Cummings Associates, articles for gaming magazines such as Gaming Business Magazine and Gaming and Wagering Business, academic articles, and drafts of chapters for his book The Business of Risk. The materials also include drafts, research notes, and finished versions of his “Gross Annual Wager” articles, which were published annually by Gaming and Wagering Business.