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Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce event photographs, promotional videos, digitized oral history interviews from Ralph Roske's Local History Project, digitized photographs of 1950s-1960s Las Vegas, 2007 to 2013
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Records
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
Archival Component
Site Characterization and Validation: Final Report - Stripa Project 92-22, 1992 April
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office Collection
Box/Folder: Box 82
Archival Component
Max Goot oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Max Goot conducted by Charles Collins on March 22, 1976 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Goot recalls the growth of Las Vegas, Nevada after 1945. He also talks about winning the Man of the Year Award from his temple.
Archival Collection
Unknown restaurant, dinner menu, May 22, 1901
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Archival Collection
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Las Vegas Gay and Lesbian Chorus marching in the Gay Pride parade: photographic print, 1999
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 040
Archival Component
Photograph of Sheriff Sam Gay, Las Vegas, circa 1906-1920s
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Archival Collection
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Robert Maheu oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Robert Maheu conducted by K. J. Evans on April 19, 1999 for the Las Vegas Review-Journal First 100 Oral History Project. In this interview, Maheu discusses Howard Hughes and attempts by Bill Gay and associates to take Hughes' business. Maheu then discusses his career in the FBI and CIA before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada. Finally, Maheu talks about working for Hughes.
Archival Collection
Lawrence Nelson oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Lawrence Nelson conducted by John Turner on February 22, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Nelson discusses the history of early Las Vegas, Nevada. He talks about the Old Mormon Fort, the importance of railroads in Las Vegas, and the construction of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam.
Archival Collection
Sunrunners booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Gay Pride at Sunset Park, 1998. Photographer: Dennis McBride. Sunrunners booth.
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Unidentified entertainment at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Gay Pride 1999 (Dennis McBride, photographer) Sunset Park. (5-8-99) Entertainment.
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