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Harry Hayden Whiteley Architectural Records
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The Harry Hayden Whiteley Architectural Records are comprised of architectural records (1931-1970) created and/or maintained by the American architect Harry Hayden Whiteley and/or his architectural firm, known as Harry Hayden Whiteley and Associates. This collection includes 30.21 linear feet of materials including 45 items from over 30 projects. The collection focuses on his work in the Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada areas. The materials feature both architectural drawings and project files. Architectural drawings include pencil and ink on tracing paper preliminary sketches and mounted artist’s renderings used for presentations and promotional materials. Project files include project correspondence, photographs, and structural calculations. The drawings also contain work from the architect Paul Revere Williams. The collection includes architectural drawings for hotels, shopping plazas, residential developments, and office buildings.
Archival Collection
Postcard of Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah (Nev.), 1905
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of YESCO workers installing Vegas Vic at the Pioneer Club (Las Vegas), 1951
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Archival Collection
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Workers installing the now-famous Vegas Vic sign on the front of the Pioneer Club. Stamped on back of photo: "Photo by Desert Sea News Bureau. Las Vegas, Nevada." Transcribed from photo sleeve: "First Highrise Hotel -- Center of action downtown throughtout the '30s was the Apache Hotel which boasted an elevator and a nitery downstairs. The corner is now Binion's Horseshoe, but the spot has undergone many name changes from Tony Cornero's 'S.S. Rex' to the Eldorado where the mobs were fighting for control of the race wire. Bugsy Siegel's influence was first felt here in the early '40s."
Site Name: Pioneer Club
Address: 25 East Fremont Street
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Architectural drawing of additions and alterations, miscellaneous details, Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 24, 1964
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Detail drawings for roof hatch; louvers and transformer; Pullman support bracket; glazed partition systems; ceiling furring; door support track; suspended ceilings; catwalk sections; lobby entrance; "Dor-O-Matic" door operator; ceramic tile shower stalls; public and service toilet rooms at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. "Sheet number 54. Job 420. Scale as noted. Drawn by Walter H. Koziol. Job captain: Masayoshi Tokubo. Date: August 3, 1964. Revisions: 8-13-64; 10-29-64; 11-24-64."
Site Name: Sands Hotel
Address: 3355 Las Vegas Boulevard South;
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Architectural drawing of tourist facilities, Zion National Park, Utah, March 6, 1928
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Archival Collection
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Blueprint showing locations of buildings at Zion National Park, including the main pavilion, cabins, dormitories, a firepit, swimming pool, maintenance and utility buildings and lines and proposed locations. Scale: 1 inch = 20 feet. "Union Pacific System, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Co. Chief Engineer's Office, Omaha, Neb. Dec. 14, 1927." "C.E. drawing no. 50046. Per 'as constructed' print dated Dec. 5, 1927 - from S. J. Mayo, Asst. Engineer. Revised per S.J.M. letter dated Dec. 21, 1927. Revised per S.J.M. letter and print dated Mar 6, 1928." Handwritten in red pencil in lower right:"Office copy 15182."
Site Name: Zion National Park (Utah)
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Costume design drawings, yellow, red, blue and black costumes with wild cat motifs, Las Vegas, 1984
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Archival Collection
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Costume Details: Baggy yellow trousers with oversized yellow tunic-style top with a lion head on front, oversized teal collar and cuffs and teal sash; black oversized knee-length tunic-style top with a tiger head on front, with yellow sash; both costumes have tasseled black slippers. Red robe with tiger and leopard motifs on the sleeves, tied with a gold tasseled rope belt, baggy red trousers knotted at the ankles; dark blue robe with a black panther motif on the left sleeve and side, tied with a gold tasseled rope belt, with black trousers and boots.
Show Name: Siegfried & Roy
Site Name: Frontier Hotel and Casino
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Gordon, Gerald, 1948-
Taken from bio on JHP: "In 1961, at the age of thirteen, Gerald “Jerry” Gordon became a bar mitzvah. This typical coming of age celebration was unusual in that he had simultaneously studied in both his home state of California and his adopted home of Las Vegas, where he spent summers with his grandparents. 1961 is also the same year that the Gordons made Las Vegas their permanent home. Jerry graduated from Las Vegas High School, attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas and earned his law degree from University of California, Los Angeles.
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