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Thalia Dondero oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Thalia Dondero conducted by Claytee D. White on 2014 March 6 and April 2 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In her interview Dondero discusses community organizing in early Las Vegas, Nevada during the 1960s. Dondero also talks about her time in the state legislature.
Archival Collection
Marla Letizia oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Marla Letizia conducted by Barbara Tabach on August 26, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Letizia discusses living in Las Vegas, Nevada since the age of two. She talks about her activity in the Jewish community, owning the Letizia Agency with her husband, and the mobile billboards business.
Archival Collection
Laura Sussman and Wendy Kraft oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Laura Sussman and Wendy Kraft conducted by Barbara Tabach on February 17, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Sussman and Kraft talk about being business partners in Kraft-Sussman Funeral Home, which caters to the Jewish community. They also talk about the local LGBT community as a lesbian couple.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Jack Entratter, Dean Martin, and GQ publication, Las Vegas, December, 1959
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Archival Collection
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Producer Jack Entratter and Dean Martin pose with the current issue of GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly) in Las Vegas.
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Photograph of Sands marquee: Dean Martin, maybe Frank, maybe Sammy, Las Vegas, 1963
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Archival Collection
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Daytime shot of the Sands Hotel and Casino marquee. The marquee headline reads: "Jack Entratter Presents: Dean Martin, Maybe Frank, Maybe Sammy. Brascia & Tybee."
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Photograph of Dean Martin greeting guests in his dressing room at the Sands, Las Vegas, March 6, 1957
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Archival Collection
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Dean Martin with unidentified guests in his dressing room at the Sands Hotel and Casino, on Martin's opening night as a single star.
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Photograph of gamblers at the roulette table, Sands Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, circa late 1950s-early 1960s
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Archival Collection
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People at the roulette table at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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Film transparency of Frank Sinatra singing at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, circa 1960s
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Archival Collection
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Frank Sinatra performing in the Copa Room at the Sands Hotel in the 1960s.
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