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Cars travel on Polaris Avenue in front of the Allegiant Stadium construction site, looking northeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2020-02-07

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at Allegiant Stadium.

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A truck drives on Polaris Avenue in front of the Allegiant Stadium construction site, looking northeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2020-02-07

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at Allegiant Stadium.

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A car passes on Polaris Avenue in front of the Allegiant Stadium construction site, looking east-southeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2020-02-07

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at Allegiant Stadium.

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A sign touting the future home of the Las Vegas Raiders sits in front of the Allegiant Stadium construction site as seen from Dean Martin Drive, looking west-northwest in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2020-02-07

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at Allegiant Stadium.

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Statement from the Cole Fischer Rogow, Inc., to the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1970

Date

1970-05

Description

A representative, billing statement that recaps the types of advertising and costs for May 1970 at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The statement was prepared by the Cole Fischer Rogow, Inc. company and sent to the attention of Al Freeman, Sands Hotel.

Mixed Content

Letter from Rosemary Shinnier (Los Angeles) to Al freeman at the Sands Hotel (Las Vegas), January 19, 1959

Date

1959-01-19

Description

A representative letter (written on The Sands Hotel stationary) from Rosemary Shinnier in Los Angeles to Al Freeman at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada requesting the "Sands Times" be regularly mailed to her and her mother, Constance Shinnier (Long Beach, California).

Mixed Content

Sally MacEachern oral history interviews

Identifier

OH-01174

Abstract

Oral history interviews with Sally MacEachern conducted by Dennis McBride on February 24 and March 11, 2002 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. MacEachern opens her interview discussing her birth and upbringing with her twin sister in Wisconsin during the 1940s. She then describes her family history, her life as a twin, and what it was like to be part of a military family. MacEachern then talks about her first lesbian sexual encounters and meeting other lesbians for the first time. She discusses joining the military and efforts within the organization to remove lesbians from the service that eventually lead to her termination. MacEachern then recalls going to college in the 1960s, meeting other lesbians, and moving in with her first girlfriend. She describes moving to Las Vegas, Nevada for graduate school, joining the gay community, and frequenting local gay businesses including Maxine's and Camp David. She then discusses the lesbian separatists movement, the different struggles gay men face compared to lesbian women, and the local community response to the AIDS crisis.

Archival Collection

Notes on the Cadillac Business Managers Club booking at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, October 18, 1962

Date

1962-10-18

Description

Notes written by General Joe Battley regarding the Cadillac Business Managers Club booking for October 26, 1962 of the Emerald Room at the Sands Hotel located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The notes outline the date, time, person in charge, number of guests, function, room set up, and the menu. Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino

Mixed Content

The Resorts World Las Vegas tower under construction, looking west in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2018-09-21

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo series documents ongoing construction work at the Resorts World Las Vegas site.

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The Resorts World Las Vegas tower under construction, looking west in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2018-09-21

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo series documents ongoing construction work at the Resorts World Las Vegas site.

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