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#70420: PGA Golf Management Program Family and Friends golf tournament reception and awards dinner at Las Vegas Country Club on August 22, 2015., 2015 August 22
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Barr Smith oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Barr Smith conducted by Melvin Smail on February 22, 1980 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Smith discusses his personal history and the history of Las Vegas, Nevada. Smith discusses working at the Basic Magnesium plant, playing high stakes poker games with prominent gamblers like "Nick the Greek," and the casinos built on the early Las Vegas Strip. Smith also describes how Las Vegas has changed, the different forms of gambling and gaming available in the city, and life in 1940s Las Vegas.
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January 22, 2001
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Photographs of Frontier Strike: first arrest, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1991 September 22 (Folder 1 of 2)
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Culinary Union workers strike at the Frontier Hotel and Casino on September 22, 1991. Amongst strikers is Jim Arnold, secretary-treasurer of the Culinary Workers Union. During the rally, strikers are seen holding an American flag while marching and police officers made the first arrest since beginning of strike.Arrangement note: Series I. Demonstrations, Subseries I.A. Frontier Strike Site name: Frontier Hotel and Casino
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Title Insurance publicity with Harold Wandesforde at Las Vegas Country Club, 1971 October 22
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 27
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Photograph of children at Bruce Beckley's Birthday Party, Las Vegas (Nev.) March 22, 1927
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, September 22, 2003
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Wendy M. Starkweather oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Wendy Starkweather conducted by Claytee White on June 16, 2010 and June 22, 2010 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Starkweather discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978 when her husband Peter L. Starkweather accepted a teaching position in the biology department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She also discusses working in several types of libraries in Las Vegas before being offered the head of reference position at the UNLV library in 1985. She talks about her experiences working under six deans and retiring in 2010.
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Riviera Hotel and Casino: Las Vegas, Nevada, 1954 May 22; 1984 April 23
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This series includes drawings of the both original Riviera Hotel building prepared by Roy F. France & Son Architects (architect) and J. Maher Weller (architect) and later drawings for additions, alterations, and renovations by Martin Stern Jr., (architect).
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Collection Name: Martin Stern Architectural Records
Box/Folder: N/A
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