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Drew and Debbie Levy at home, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
Description
Longtime Las Vegas residents Drew and Debbie Levy, photographed at their Summerlin neighborhood home for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project.
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Report, Description of flood control problems of the Meadow Valley Wash and Muddy River Water sheds - Clark and Lincoln Counties, Nevada, circa 1940
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Archival Collection
Description
List of flood control features in the Meadow Valley Wash and the Muddy River Watershed.
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Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad Blueprints
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Abstract
The Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad Blueprints consists of twenty-four of the original thirty blueprints as part of the Interstate Commerce Commission (I.C.C.) Valuation Index Section I. They are labeled "Right-of-Way & Track Map, Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad" and dated June 30, 1915. The blueprints contain four miles of railroad lines per sheet with a scale of 6 3/4 inches per mile. The collection also includes one sheet from the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad company, which used the track, yard, and facilities of the Las Vegas and Tonopah and Railroad company between Beatty and Goldfield, Nevada.
Archival Collection
Professional activities files, 1980-2015
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Scope and Contents
The professional activities files include materials collected by anthropologist Katherine Spilde during her employment with the National Gambling Impact Study Commission (NGISC), the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA), and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (HPAIED). The materials date from 1980 to 2005, with the bulk of materials dating from 1995 to 2005. The materials document the institutional research of NGISC, NIGA, and HPAIED as well as the legal and regulatory history of Native American gaming in the United States. Also included to a lesser extent are materials from her work with the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Data Management, Needs Assessment, and Auditing Workgroup; the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA) and the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Joint Task Force; and the National Council on Problem Gambling. The series contains research and subject files created by Dr. Spilde during her employment with various agencies of the federal government and universities. The series includes socioeconomic reports, testimonies, correspondence, memos, press releases, audiovisual materials, promotional materials, pamphlets, brochures, booklets, journal articles, legal briefs, legislative documents, notes, presentations, conference materials, and newspaper articles.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
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