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Aerial view of Las Vegas, including race track, city hall, post office, and park, approximately 1935-1940
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Fred and Maurine Wilson Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 05 (Restrictions apply)
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Photograph of a banquet for Howard Hughes, Texas, 1938
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Eddie Hall Holzman oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Eddie Hall Holzman conducted by Lisa Gioia-Acres on October 02, 2008 for the All That Jazz Oral History Project. Holzman begins the interview talking about his growth as a musician while living and performing in New Jersey and New York. He also discusses his time playing while enlisted in the military, until he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1947 where he played in a jazz band. Holzman also describes working as a card dealer at the Thunderbird Hotel and Casino, the Desert Inn Hotel and Casino, and the El Rancho Hotel and Casino. He also details the music scene in Las Vegas from the 1950s through the end of his playing career.
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Gilley's Saloon and Dance Hall: postcard
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa 1947
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa 1947
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa 1947
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa 1947
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Photograph of Howard Hughes' XF-11, California, circa 1946
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An exterior view of the North Las Vegas City Hall framed by the roofline of a medical office building on North McDaniel Street in North Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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From the UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (PH-00394). Part of the collection documents the entire 19 mile length of the north/south Eastern Avenue / Civic Center Drive alignment. This photograph was captured in the section of Civic Center Drive between Las Vegas Boulevard and Lake Mead Boulevard.
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