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"Black Entertainers in Las Vegas in the Era of Segregation 1940-1960": manuscript draft by Roosevelt Fitzgerald
Date
1970 (year approximate) to 1996 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Unpublished manuscripts file.
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Photograph of Fremont Street with the Hotel Apache in the foreground (Las Vegas), 1940
Date
1938 to 1942
Archival Collection
Description
Fremont Street at night with the Hotel Apache in the foreground, showing the beginnings of "Glitter Gulch."
Site Name: Fremont Street
Address: Fremont street, Las Vegas, NV
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Slide of the neon sign for the Town House Motor Lodge at night, Reno, Nevada, 1986
Date
1986
Archival Collection
Description
A color image of the neon sign for the Town House Motor Lodge, located on West 2nd Street in Reno, lit up at night. Site Name: Town House Motor Lodge (Reno, Nev.)
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Slide of the Ranch Inn Motor Lodge, Elko, Nevada, circa 1947
Date
1946 to 1948
Archival Collection
Description
An image of the neon sign for the Ranch Inn Motor Lodge, located in Elko, at night. The illuminated sign has a picture of a smiling cowboy giving a thumbs up above the words: "Ranch Inn Motor Lodge, Television, Air Conditioned."
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Slide of the Ranch Inn Motor Lodge, Elko, Nevada, circa 1947
Date
1946 to 1948
Archival Collection
Description
An image of the neon sign for the Ranch Inn Motor Lodge, located in Elko, at night. The illuminated sign has a picture of a smiling cowboy giving a thumbs up above the words: "Ranch Inn Motor Lodge, Television, Air Conditioned." The reflection of the lighted sign can be seen glowing on the dark surface of the lodge's pool.
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Slide of a police car at a demostration held near the Nevada Test Site, 1984
Date
1984
Archival Collection
Description
Color image of a law enforcement vehicle at a demonstration held by the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group protesting nuclear testing.
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Photograph of a man sitting on a horse at a bar at the Fremont Hotel, Las Vegas, circa 1940
Date
1938 to 1940
Archival Collection
Description
A black and white image of two men drinking at a bar during a Union Pacific Old Timer's Club No. 23 gathering at the Fremont Hotel during Helldorado Days. One of the men is sitting on a horse.
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Film transparency of hotels on Fremont Street, Las Vegas, circa late 1930s
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white image of the intersection of Second and Fremont Streets in downtown Las Vegas at night.
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Slide of Hoover Dam generators, circa late 1930s
Date
1935 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
An image of hydroelectric generators inside the powerhouse at Hoover Dam. A man standing next to one of the generators shows their scale. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.
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Postcard showing the Winged Figures of the Republic at Hoover Dam, circa late 1930s
Date
1935 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
A view of the Winged Figures of the Republic at Hoover Dam; the inscription at the base of the flagpole is printed on the postcard: "It is fitting that the flag of our country should fly here in honor of those men who , inspired by a vision of lonely land, made fruitful, conceived this great work, and of those others whose genius and labor made that vision a reality."
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