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Postcard of Hank Monk, 1859 - 1938
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Archival Collection
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Newspaper clippings on city planning and zoning, 1966 June to 1968 July
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ardis Kearns Papers
Box/Folder: Box 06
Archival Component
Jack Howard interview, February 27, 1977: transcript
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Archival Collection
Description
From the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas collection OH-00897. On February 27, 1977, collector Michael K. Ericksen interviewed his uncle, schoolteacher, Jack E. Howard, (born June 18th, 1920 in Dewey, Oklahoma) in his home in Overton, Nevada. This interview covers Mr. Howard’s personal experiences and recollections about Southern Nevada. Mr. Howard’s wife, Mrs. Helen Howard, is also present during this interview, which offers a thirty year local overview.
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Boulder City, Nevada, including City Hall, the Boulder Theater building, the Hoover Dam Hotel, and the Terminal Building with the Boulder Cafe, approximately 1933-1934
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 11
Archival Component
Howard Warner oral history interview
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Abstract
Oral history interview with Howard Warner conducted by Virginia Lacouture on July 04, 1976 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Warner discusses arriving to Las Vegas, Nevada as a special agent with the intelligence division of the United States Department of the Treasury. Warner then describes the expansion of businesses as the population increased in Las Vegas.
Archival Collection
Howard Heckethorn oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Howard Heckethorn conducted by Richard Eitland on February 15, 1979 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Mr. Heckethorn describes going to school in the early days of Las Vegas, Nevada. He also talks about many notable teachers he had, as well as the development of the Las Vegas area. Heckethorn also discusses his arrival to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1930, and recalls the Old Mormon Fort, El Rancho, The Last Frontier, and the tourism that gambling brought to the city. Heckethorn discusses the 1960s, and the impact Howard Hughes had in the development of hotels and casinos.
Archival Collection
Hall, 2000
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Guide to the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival Submissions
Box/Folder: Box 2002-015
Archival Component
Architectural drawing of residential home in Boulder City, Nevada, preliminary elevation, 1962
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Preliminary drawing of front exterior elevation of ranch-style residential home in Boulder City, Nevada.
Architecture Period: Mid-Century ModernistImage