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South Dakota: newspaper articles about the Dakota (Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe); Mnikoju, Owohe Nupa, Itazipa Cola, and Siha Sapa of the Cheyenne River Nation (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe); Kul Wicasa Oyate (Lower Brule Sioux Tribe); the Lakota; tobacco; casinos; Leonard Peltier; and Kevin Costner's casino; and journal article on the Lakota, 1993-2000, undated
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
Box/Folder: Box 22
Archival Component
Trump Atlantic City: renderings of floor plans, interior and exterior building perspectives, 2005
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Bergman Walls & Associates Architectural Drawings
Box/Folder: Flat File 22, Digital File 00
Archival Component
Governor's Advisory Council (GAC) correspondence, event planning documents, newspaper clippings, and administrative records, 1979 to 2018
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center Records
Box/Folder: Box 15, Box 16, Box 17, Box 18, Box 19, Box 20, Box 21, Box 22, Box 23, Box 24
Archival Component
Memo about supplying water to the Las Vegas Gunnery School, June 19, 1947
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Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of the alternatives of supplying water to the Las Vegas Gunnery School (now a part of Nellis Air Force Base).
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Letter from A. M. Folger (Las Vegas) to William Reinhardt, August 17, 1948
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Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of details regarding the drilling of a well on the Las Vegas Ranch.
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Letter from A. M. Folger (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong, June 7, 1948
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Archival Collection
Description
The charges for water for the hospital seemed to be too high and Folger was asking for permission to lower them.
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Letter from William Reinhardt (Los Angeles) to A. E. Stoddard, January 30, 1953
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Archival Collection
Description
If the bond issue failed, the public might try and force the railroad to increase water production, so the company should consider transferring all water production to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company who was in a better position to resist "unreasonable demands." "Copy" and "80-12" written in red pencil. Letter has several date stamps: E.E.B., E.C.R. and U.P. R.R. Co., Los Angeles.
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Copy of Letter from Pat McCarran (Washington D. C.) to Harry E. Miller (Las Vegas), April 14, 1954
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Archival Collection
Description
Senator McCarran states he will introduce two right-of-way bills and warns the language of the bills may be considered too broad by the Senate committee.
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José Luis Gutiérrez oral history interview
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Oral history interview with José Luis Gutiérrez conducted by Maribel Estrada Calderón and Barbara Tabach on October 1, 2018 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Also present during this interview is José’s close friend Sergio Salgado, who was interviewed separately for the Latinx Voices project in 2018.
José discusses his early life growing up in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, and his migration to Tijuana and then Santa Barbara, California as a teenager. He talks about his restaurant employment history both in California and in Las Vegas, including his time working at the Jolly Parrot, the Dunes Hotel and Casino, and his own eatery: Tortilleria Los Arcos.
Subjects discussed include: Tortilleria Los Arcos; Club Social Mexicano.
Archival Collection
Melvin Green oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Melvin Green conducted by Robin Fults on November 28 and December 1, 2014 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Green talks about growing up in Bonita, Louisiana and his education through college. He then talks about working for an architectural firm in Connecticut before being recruited to join a firm in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1986. He relates numerous stories about his childhood, discusses problems with discrimination and segregation in the South, and an example of discrimination from a Las Vegas furniture store in the late 1980s. He expands on his views of religion, spirituality, and politics, the importance of travel, of hard work, and commitment. He also gives examples of architectural projects that he has created.
Archival Collection