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Architectural drawing of Circus Circus (Las Vegas), detailed proposal sheets, plot and roof plans, parking and area schedule, and legal description, November 17, 1967
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Archival Collection
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Project overview sheets of the major elements of Circus Circus from November 1967; Stamped "Preliminary - Not for Construction Purposes."
Site Name: Circus Circus Las Vegas
Address: 2880 Las Vegas Boulevard South
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Postcard of the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1955-1970
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of a couple in Tonopah (Nev.), 1920-1950
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Archival Collection
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Guinn, Frances
Frances L. Guinn was born on February 31, 1942 in Arroyo Granda, California.
Guinn began working with the Nevada Test Site in 1970. Guinn was employed as a public relations specialist and coordinated tours of the Nevada Test Site.
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Morse Arberry oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Morse Arberry conducted by Brittany Thompson and Andrew Thomas on November 20, 2015 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Arberry discusses his personal history and moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1958. He talks about his father's employment at the Nevada Test Site and the issues of segregation at the time. Arberry recalls attending the Westside School and talks about school integration. He then describes his career in legislation, working on bills to improve the integration process, and the impact that the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) had on the level of education among adults in the community. Lastly, Arberry discusses the West Las Vegas community, the significance that religion had on African Americans, and the increase of law enforcement in the area.
Archival Collection
Photograph of the Goldfield Hotel, Goldfield (Nev.), 1900-1920
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Archival Collection
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Site Name: Goldfield Hotel (Goldfield, Nev.)
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Photograph of the Oriental and The Cottage, Goldfield (Nev.), 1900-1920
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Archival Collection
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The Oriental (Goldfield, Nev.)
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Photograph of Hoover Dam construction at night, circa 1930-1935
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Archival Collection
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Transcript of interview with Brad Nelson by Stefani Evans, October 30, 2017
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Archival Collection
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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 three aerialists peforming at Circus Circus, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1970s
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Archival Collection
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