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Tracy, Spencer, 1900-1967
American film star and the first actor to win two consecutive Academy Awards for best actor, Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was born in Milwaukee, Wisonsin on April 5, 1900 to Caroline Brown and John Edward Tracy. Tracy joined the United States Navy in 1918. Upon his discharge, he enrolled at Ripon Colle as a premed student. While attending Ripon, Tracy auditioned for and eared a part in a play, and quickly discovered his true calling, acting. He moved to New York, New York in 1922 in order to enroll at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Hazel Denton in center with her two sons posed in front of fence at the Washington Zoo: photographic print
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Arthur Walker Gregory Photograph Collection
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The Arthur Walker Gregory Photograph Collection, approximately 1900 to 1920, consists of black-and-white photographic prints, and two corresponding negatives. Two of the images depict the first train to arrive in Las Vegas, Nevada from Salt Lake City, Utah in 1905, one with railroad employees in the foreground. The remaining images depict Arthur Walker Gregory’s class photographs at the Las Vegas Grammar School when he was in the first, third, and fifth grades.
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Newspaper article, Night for youths, All-Day workshop head many events, Las Vegas Sun, February 9, 1965
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Archival Collection
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Newspaper article featuring information about the Negro National History Week events taking place in schools and churches in February 1965.
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Letter from Harold J. Stocker (Clark County, Nevada) to Harold L. Ickes (Washington, D.C.) February 26, 1940
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Archival Collection
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Clark County commissioner asking the Secretary of the Interior to use some of the funds from the Arid Lands Fund to create a drinking water system in the Moapa Valley.
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Rinker with fish at Catalina Island: photographic print
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Fire in Goldfield, Nevada: postcard
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Archival Collection
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