The Leon Rockwell Photograph Collection (approximately 1850-1979) contains black-and-white photographic prints, negatives, and slides, as well as postcards and tintypes. The images portray the lives of the Rockwell family in southern Nevada, their travels throughout New York and the western United States, and their immediate and extended family members. Also included are images of the volunteer and early firefighters of Las Vegas, Nevada, the Rockwell's family cabin at Mount Charleston, Nevada, and the Rockwell family home in Las Vegas. Portions of the images are from the Rockwell family travels across Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and California and depict historic locations such as Cove Fort, Utah; Rhyolite, Nevada; and Pueblo Grande de Nevada.
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The Las Vegas, Nevada News Coverage Collection on September 11, 2001 (2001-2002) contains recordings of local television news and radio coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, New York and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The news coverage was recorded and compiled by UNLV Journalism and Media Studies Professor Julian Kilker to use as research material for examining how mainstream news media covered the attacks.
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The nightclubs series is comprised of materials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s that document Donn Arden's work in nightclubs throughout the United States. Cities included are New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; Miami Beach, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; Reno, Nevada; and Fort Lee, New Jersey. Nightclubs include the Latin Quarter, Moulin Rouge, Riviera, and the Painted Desert Room at the Desert Inn Hotel and Casino. Also includes documentation on the Arden-Fletcher Dancers, Arden's line of dancers with dancer and choreographer Ron Fletcher.
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Materials depict the Hughes H-1 Racer in 1937. The photographs primarily depict Howard Hughes standing with the plane or in the plane's cockpit. The plane was designed by Glenn Odekirk and built by Hughes Aircraft Company in 1935, the first plane produced by the company. Hughes broke several records in the H-1, including the landplane speed record in 1935. In 1937, Hughes broke his own transcontinental speed record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City, New York in 7 hours, 28 minutes. Despite its speed, Hughes was unable to sell the H-1 to the U.S. military.
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