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Dayton, Nevada Gold Discovery Sesquicentennial Commemorative Plate
Identifier
MS-00772
Abstract
The Dayton, Nevada Gold Discovery Sesquicentennial Commemorative Plate collection (1999) contains one china plate commemorating the sesquicentennial of the discovery of gold in Dayton, Nevada in 1849.
Archival Collection
Felicia F. Campbell Collection on the Governor's Commission on Status of People Records
Identifier
MS-00226
Abstract
The Felicia F. Campbell Collection on the Governor’s Commission on Status of People Records (1970-1977) is comprised primarily of meeting minutes, agendas, reports, and memorandums from the Nevada Commission. The collection also contains women’s rights commission handbooks from various states and correspondence and newspaper clippings pertaining to Campbell's professional life.
Archival Collection
Florence DeVinney Krolak Photograph Collection
Identifier
PH-00065
Abstract
The Florence DeVinney Krolak Photograph Collection (approximately 1930-1979) contains photographic prints of the Casino Monte Carlo in Monaco, the Boulder (Hoover) Dam with local dignitaries, and Harley E. Harmon and Frank DeVinney (Clark County Assessor). The collection also contains one publicity photograph of Neil Diamond and some images have corresponding negatives. Frank DeVinney was an assessor for Clark County, Nevada.
Archival Collection
George Mortimer Photograph Album of Searchlight, Nevada
Identifier
PH-00429
Abstract
The George Mortimer Photograph Album of Searchlight, Nevada dates between approximately 1900 and 1910, and contains black-and-white photographic prints illustrating various scenes and individuals in Searchlight, Nevada. Some images are captioned with initials or brief names.
Archival Collection
Mildred J. Heyer Photograph Collection
Identifier
PH-00199
Abstract
The Mildred J. Heyer Photograph Collection consists of four black-and-white photographic prints and negatives from approximately 1905 to 1940. The photographs depict early Las Vegas, Nevada street scenes, an irrigation pump, and Liberty’s Last Stand, a prominent saloon in Nevada during Prohibition.
Archival Collection
Transcript of interview with Charles Nur Fernald by Claytee D. White, May 31, 2014
Date
2014-05-31
Archival Collection
Description
Dancer Charles Nur Fernald first came to Las Vegas in 1963 to perform for five weeks in the Kay Starr Show at the Sahara Hotel and again in 1964 working with Donn Arden for three months at the Desert Inn Hotel. Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1939, Charles moved several times to various places in Arizona and southern California with his parents, Charles Knox Fernald and Marguerite Marie Higgins Fernald, and half-siblings before settling in Hollywood, California, where he remained (except for his short stints in Las Vegas) from 1961 to 1967. In January 1968 Charles came to Las Vegas to perform with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca at the Flamingo Hotel. After the show closed Charles auditioned for Donn Arden to dance in the Lido de Paris show at the Stardust Hotel, where he remained for sixteen years, 1968 through 1984. He remains the only male dancer who performed with Lido through five different, consecutive productions. In 1969 Charles met his partner, Aquiles Garcia, who was a dancer at the Dunes Hotel. The couple remain in Las Vegas and have been together forty-five years. Charles’s father was very poor and left school after the third grade to go to work and help support his family. He was born in 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the fifth of eleven children. As an eight-year-old he became a “groundhog,” a digger of New York’s underwater tunnels, who helped build the Holland Tunnel. At fifteen he made more money than his father selling newspapers, fresh fruit, and clothing door to door or from the street corner. According to Charles, his father “drank too much, ate too much, smoked too much, and loved too much.” As an only child, Charles’s mother had a very different upbringing from his father, although her family too was very poor. She was born in Detroit in 1902 to a railroad switchman father and mother who not only scrubbed the floors of wealthy Detroiters but also cooked meals for twenty-one boarders at a rooming house. Marguerite’s parents worked hard so they could send their only child to Catholic school and the Detroit Conservatory of Music.
Text
Letter and envelope from John M. Bunker, Logan, Utah to Mary Etta Syphus, Provo, Utah
Date
1894-05-19
Archival Collection
Description
From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, an envelope, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached.
Text
Photograph of the Flamingo Hotel gaming room entrance, Las Vegas, circa late 1940s-early 1950s
Date
1948 to 1953
Description
Daytime photo of the exterior of the Flamingo Hotel, showing the canopied gaming room entrance.
Image
Alan Paine Papers
Identifier
MS-00461
Abstract
The Alan Paine Papers are largely comprised of the works written by poet and screenwriter Alan Paine, including his screenplays, a manuscript for an unpublished book, and
Archival Collection