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Hoover Dam switchyard: photographic print
Date
1950 (year approximate) to 1959 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Hoover Dam Switchyard circa 1950s.
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Countess, Jerome "Jerry"
Former director of Combined Jewish Appeal, which became the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas
Person
Mack, Jerome D. "Jerry", 1920-1998
Jerome D. "Jerry" Mack (1920-1998) was a banker, investor, and community leader in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mack and his business partner E. Parry Thomas were the first bankers to loan money to casinos in Las Vegas. Mack was a co-founder of Nevada Southern College in the 1950s, now known as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Mack and Thomas established UNLV's land foundation, which added 400 acres to the campus in 1967, and they funded the basketball stadium, which was named the Thomas & Mack Center in their honor.
Person
Southwest Gas Corporation office building: framing plans for air conditioner unit screens architectural drawing
Date
1974-08-18
Archival Collection
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Operation Oppurtunities Clark County Economic Opportunities Board Project Applications and Day Care Center: doucments, reports, correspondence, budgets
Date
1964
Archival Collection
Description
From the Clark County Economic Opportunity Board Records -- Series II: Projects. This folder contains documents such as project applications from Operation Oppurtunities-Clark County Economic Opportunities Board Las Vegas, Nevada as well as correspondence about Clark County School District, Nevada Tuberculosis and Health Association, Division of Labor, documents and services on day care services center, program of work documents, and appendixes about area and resources
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Countess, Jerome D.
Jerome Countess was born on December 22, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. His mother raised him as a single mother, making ends meet with her job in a clothing factory. Countess's father rarely held a job, and his mother divorced him when Countess was three-years-old. Countess grew up in the borough's Jewish neighborhood, and he developed a reputation for being a skillful handball player and a great dancer.
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