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Dedication of the Gold Star Mothers War Memorial in City Hall Park in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print
Date
1952
Archival Collection
Description
From the Nita Londo Rieger Photograph Collection (PH-00315).
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Film negative of Mayor Oran K. Gragson seated at his desk in City Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 21, 1961
Date
1961-12-21
Archival Collection
Description
Portrait of Las Vegas Mayor Oran K. Gragson seated at his desk in City Hall. A certificate From Delta dated June 25, 1961 hangs on the wall behind him. Oran Kenneth Gragson (February 14, 1911 – October 7, 2002) was an American businessman and politician. He was the longest-serving mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, from 1959 to 1975. Gragson, a member of the Republican Party, was a small business owner who was elected Mayor on a reform platform against police corruption and for equal opportunity for people of all socio-economic and racial categories. Gragson died in a Las Vegas hospice on October 7, 2002, at the age of 91. The Oran K. Gragson Elementary School located at 555 N. Honolulu Street, Las Vegas, NV 89110 was named in his honor.
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Start of New York-to-Paris Race, Times Square, New York City, February 12, 1908, reproduction courtesy Harrah's Automobile Collection: photographic print: photographic negative, 1964
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Nan Doughty Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00240
Collection Name: Nan Doughty Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 16
Collection Name: Nan Doughty Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 16
Archival Component
Near the Atlantic City Boardwalk: photograph
Date
1960 (year approximate) to 1969 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Near the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. ca.1960's. Signs in the background read "Spook's Shangri-la" and "Steeplechase"
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Aerial photograph of Virginia City, Nevada, 1870-1875
Date
1870 to 1875
Archival Collection
Description
A aerial view of Virginia City before the fire of 1875.
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Aerial photograph of Virginia City, Nevada, 1870-1875
Date
1870 to 1875
Archival Collection
Description
A aerial view of Virginia City before the fire of 1875.
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New York City skylines and Empire State Building stock images: 35mm slides, 1994
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Hank deLespinasse Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00454
Collection Name: Hank deLespinasse Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 32
Collection Name: Hank deLespinasse Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 32
Archival Component
View of Yuma City, Arizona: photographic print
Date
1870 (year approximate) to 1979 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the KLVX Steamboats on the Colorado Photograph Collection (PH-00156). "COPY 25328 Reproduction from the Original in the Arizona Historical Society" stamp on verso.
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Photograph of a parade procession for Howard Hughes, New York, July 15, 1938
Date
1938-07-15
Archival Collection
Description
Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "New York hails heroes of World Flight, New York City --- In the greatest reception since Lindbergh's, Howard Hughes and his gallant companions paraded up Broadway today, almost smothered beneath New York's ticker-tape accolade recognizing their record-smashing world dash. Here's Hughes, (center back, seat), gazing up the tons of torn paper fluttering down on him and his comrades, following in the car behind. Beside Hughes on the left is Grover Whalen, head of the New York World's Fair, 1939. Credit Line (ACME) 7/15/38."
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Slide of the Penguin Restaurant, Carson City, Nevada, 1986
Date
1986
Archival Collection
Description
A color image of the front exterior and neon sign for the blue and white Penguin Restaurant, located in Carson City, Nevada.
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