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Costume design drawing, teal, pink and black showgirl costume, Las Vegas, June 5, 1980
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Archival Collection
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Costume Details: Jeweled teal, pink, and black vertical striped showgirl costume with split skirt, matching feather headdress and cuffs.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Bandwagon finale: Gershwin
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Costume design drawing, topless showgirl in purple and black ensemble, Las Vegas, 1981
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Archival Collection
Description
Costume Details: Topless showgirl in jeweled purple and black collar and split skirt costume with large matching trailing headdress trimmed in purple and black feathers; teal and fuchsia accents. The costume was worn from the opening night of Jubilee, July 1981 until May 1984.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Bandwagon finale: Stairway
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Costume design drawing, Vienna finale costumes, Las Vegas, 1981
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Costume Details: Female performer in pale pink hoop skirt costume decorated with large fuchsia and purple grapes, black ribbons at waist, and teal hair ribbons. Male performer wearing a stylized military uniform costume with white tights, blue jacket, cape and hat trimmed with black feathers, and black boots.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Bandwagon finale: Vienna
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Jennilee Thayer oral history interview
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Abstract
Oral history interview with Jennilee Thayer conducted by Claytee D. White on August 12, 2009 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Thayer discusses arriving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1936 when it was still a mining town. She describes early Henderson, Nevada, attending Basic High School, and recalls her father’s employment at the Basic Magnesium Plant. Lastly, Thayer discusses her employment in show production, atomic bomb testing, and changes in Las Vegas.
Archival Collection
Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam) shaking a child's hand at an airport. Other people are unidentified and location is unknown: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute
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Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam) center), with two other unidentified people at an unknown location in front of an airplane: photographic print
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute
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