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Postcard of gaming guide to blackjack showcasing the Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas (Nev.), approximately 1900s-1980s
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Archival Collection
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Nevada State Museum
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Sheilagh Brooks Collection on Nevada Historical Sites and Museums
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Video interview with Rose Hamilton, Carolyn Haywood, Marilyn Armstrong, Hannah Johnson, Bobbie Gilmore and Delores "Dodi" Johnson, January 20, 2007
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Archival Collection
Description
Oral history conversation with Rose Hamilton, Carolyn Haywood, Marilyn Armstrong, Hannah Johnson, Bobbie Gilmore and Delores (Dodi) Johnson. The group shares memories of how they and their families came to live in Las Vegas during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Architectural drawing of the New Frontier Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas), proposed Hilton Hotel, plot plan, July 6, 1965
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Archival Collection
Description
Proposed plan for a remodel of the New Frontier Hotel and Casino from 1965. Original medium: pencil on parchment. Harold L. Epstein, structural engineer; J. L. Cusick and Associates, electrical engineers; W. L. Donley and Associates, mechanical engineers.
Site Name: Frontier
Address: 3120 Las Vegas Boulevard South
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Photograph of Jay and Joyce Sarno on the back of Tanya the Elephant, Circus Circus, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 1971
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Joyce and Heidi Sarno with Tanya the Elephant at Circus Circus, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 1971
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Archival Collection
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Las Vegas Citizens Committee for Community Improvement meeting minutes, September 23, 1968
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Archival Collection
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Las Vegas Citizens Committee for Community Improvements minutes: report on access road to the Las Vegas Paiute Colony, dump sites, Mardi Gras Hotel.
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Transcript of interview with Brad Nelson by Stefani Evans, October 30, 2017
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Archival Collection
Description
In 1984, with the advice of his father ringing in his ears, Brad Nelson uprooted his wife and two children from their Denver home and moved them to Henderson, Nevada, where he would begin a new adventure in shaping the new master-planned community of Green Valley with Mark Fine and American Nevada Corporation (ANC). Nelson, lifelong Nebraskan and only child of his parents, arrived armed with a Bachelor's degree in landscape architecture with urban planning option, a Master's degree in urban planning, and fifteen years of planning and executive experience with the national firm of Harmon, O'Donnell and Henniger Planning Consultants. He arrived in time to plan Green Valley's first village, the Village of Silver Spring. By the time he left ANC for Lake Las Vegas in 1999, his work was done and most large parcels had been sold. As Nelson puts it, by 1999 ANC was "out of land, and I'm a land guy." Lake Las Vegas had plenty of undeveloped land, so "land guy" Nelson a chief operating officer
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Photograph of Harold Hind and Betty Hind seated at a table with others, Las Vegas (Nev.), circa 1948
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Archival Collection
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Photographs of Lido production "Avec Plaisir," Paris (FRA), 1959
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Archival Collection
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