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Howard Booth Papers
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The Howard Booth Papers are comprised of the personal papers of environmental activist Howard Booth from 1964 to 2017. The collection includes information about Booth's efforts to help turn Red Rock Canyon into a National Conservation Area. Booth was a member of multiple conservation organizations and the collection includes meeting minutes and newsletters from the Toiyabe chapter of the Sierra Club. The collection also contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, official reports, newsletters, and meeting minutes collected by Booth from various environmental organizations. The papers also include numerous photographic slides with handwritten captions Booth took of Red Rock and the surrounding area from the early 1980s to 2000s.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and the Lockheed 14 aircraft, Fairbanks, Alaska, July 15, 1938
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and the Lockheed 14 aircraft, Fairbanks, Alaska, July 15, 1938
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City of Las Vegas map, 1952
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New York New York Hotel and Casino: postcards
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Trinity Church and lower Manhattan from Financial District, New York City, New York: panoramic photograph, 1981 May 24
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Bob Paluzzi Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 07, Digital File 00
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Photograph of Howard Hughes in the cockpit of the XF-11, Culver City, California, July 7, 1946
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Street map of the city of Las Vegas, 1954
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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.
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New York, New York ARK rally, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1997 May 30 (folder 1 of 9), image 15
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