Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 1301 - 1310 of 2766

Interview with Raymond Chester Harbert, February 18, 2005

Date

2005-02-18

Description

Narrator affiliation: Resident Engineer, Holmes and Narver; Program Manager, Plowshare

Text

Film strip of Boulder City or Hoover Dam construction, image 022: photographic print

Date

1930 (year approximate) to 1939 (year approximate)

Description

This photograph has four images. The first one (0272_0104) reads, "Union [Pacific] Station sitting at the end of Fremont St. West - A beautiful promenade lost forever in oblivion." The second one (0272_0105) shows the Clark County Court House. The handwritten inscription reads "Hireing hall (slave market) for dam, was just across the street. Men waiting for a chance to be hired, would gather on court house lawn, under the shade of trees - No 'Keep of the grass' here, as they were in my town. Gave me a feeling of doing something wrong when I walked on the grass." The third image (0272_0106) has the caption of "'Death Valley Scotty's' Castle." The fourth one (0272_0107) depicts the historic 20-mule team borax wagons, at Death Valley near Las Vegas.

Image

Photograph album 1, Leon Rockwell Collection, circa 1900s-1910s

Date

1900 to 1910
1905 to 1919

Description

Photographs taken circa 1907-1914 in the Las Vegas, Nevada area, including Fort Callville, and during travels in California; Washington State; Idaho; Montana; and Oregon, with emphasis on Yosemite National Park and Yellowstone National Park. Album also features photographs taken at the 1911 Yakima (Washington) State Fair and in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Goodsprings, Nevada during the same period.

Image

Joyce, James "Jim", 1937-1993

Between 1973 and his death in 1993, Jim Joyce managed campaigns for some 300 candidates, and lost only about 10 percent of them. Having helped elect so many legislators, it is not surprising he was the most effective lobbyist ever seen in the state Capitol. Victorious politicians and fallen rivals thought him a genius. He was certainly imaginative. Which brings us to those garbage cans.

Person

Sachs, Allan D. "Al", 1925-2002

Allan D. "Al" Sachs (1925-2002) was a Las Vegas, Nevada casino executive who owned the Stardust, Fremont, and Sundance (now known as The D) hotel-casinos with partner Herb Tobman during the 1980s. Sachs was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 17, 1925. He lied about his age and joined the Navy at age 16. After the navy, he entered the illegal gambling industry in Chicago and later worked as a dealer in Cuba and Las Vegas. In Las Vegas, he opened the Royal Nevada Casino in 1955 and was a minor investor in the Tropicana in 1958.

Person

Houghton, Fred B., 1894-1977

Fred Houghton was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 27, 1894. Houghton attended the University of Chicago Law School, and passed the Illinois State Bar examination at the age of 25. He received his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in 1919. The next year, Houghton opened his own law practice and maintained the law firm until 1943, when he moved to California.

Person