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U.S. Playing Card Company, souvenir playing cards for New York City, deck has gold edges, undated

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Harrah’s Entertainment Corporate Archives
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00460
Collection Name: Harrah’s Entertainment Corporate Archives
Box/Folder: Box 102 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Ashley Hall oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02488

Abstract

Oral history interview with Ashley Hall conducted by Claytee D. White on September 2, 2015 and September 22, 2015 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. Hall discusses being the city manager of Las Vegas, Nevada during the early portion of the development of Summerlin, Nevada by the Hughes Corporation. He also discusses his earlier life before politics, pertaining to Nevada Trench Safety.

Archival Collection

Las Vegas City Attorney Howard Cannon pictured with Las Vegas city officials: photographic print

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1958 (year approximate)

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Left to right are R. W. Notti (Assistant City Manager), A. H. Kennedy (City Manager), Cannon, Shirley Ballinger (City Clerk), Mayor C. D. Baker, Commissioner E. W. Fountain, Commissioner Reed Whipple, Commissioner Harris P. Sharp, and Commissioner Wendell Bunker.

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Photographs of a document for the Boulder City 31ers, Boulder City (Nev.), April 11, 1987

Date

1987-04-11

Description

Letters from the Boulder City 31ers Club to the members regarding the 31st annual reunion on April 11, 1987.

Text

Photograph of Howard Hughes with Fiorello La Guardia and Grover Whalen, New York, July 12, 1938

Date

1938-07-12

Description

Howard Hughes (wearing hat) receives congratulations from Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at Floyd Bennett Airport in Brooklyn. The gentleman wearing a polka dot bow tie, standing behind the mayor is Grover Whalen. Mr. Whalen was president of the 1939 New York World's Fair.

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Looking north up McDaniel Street toward City Hall in North Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2019-02-07

Description

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 and Eastern Avenue between Lake Mead Boulevard and Washington Avenue.

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Shauna Hughes oral history interviews

Identifier

OH-02817

Abstract

Oral history interviews with Shauna Hughes conducted by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White on August 31, 2016 and October 11, 2016 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. In the first interview, Hughes discusses her early life in New York and later moving to Ohio. She talks about attending John Carroll University, moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1982, and being a founding member of the Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys. Hughes recalls being appointed Henderson City Attorney, the early development of Green Valley, and the rapid growth of that area. Hughes then describes the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) explosion in 1988. In the second interview, Hughes discusses her work as Henderson City Attorney. She describes collaborating with elected city officials, the development of the Galleria Mall, and the establishment of Nevada State College (NSC). Lastly, Hughes talks about community support for new infrastructure in Henderson.

Archival Collection

"Biomedical and Health Factors in Psychotherapy," in Psychotherapy Process: Current issues and Future Directions, 255-277/ New York City, New York, 1980

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Faculty Publications
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Collection Number: UA-00056
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Faculty Publications
Box/Folder: Box 06

Archival Component

Boulder City, Nevada

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Janet MacEachern Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00395
Collection Name: Janet MacEachern Papers
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Photograph of Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1950-1951

Date

1950 to 1951

Description

Aerial of Boulder City, Nevada.

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