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Unknown author. Gambling Fever: Other Forms of Gambling, State Policy Reports, 1989 June

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
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Collection Number: MS-00626
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 16

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Photograph of the Westerner Gambling House (Las Vegas), circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

Color Photograph of the facade of the Westerner Gambling House.
Site Name: Westerner
Address: 23 Fremont Street

Image

Issues of "Journal of Gambling Studies," volume 20 number 2; "International Gambling Studies," volume 3 number 2; and "Gambling Law Review," volume 3 numbers 5 and 6, 1999, 2003, 2004

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File

Archival Collection

Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
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Collection Number: MS-00092
Collection Name: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
Box/Folder: Box 56

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Mapes Casino and Riverside Casino in Reno, Nevada: postcard

Date

1940 (year approximate) to 1990 (year approximate)

Description

From the Harvey's Hotel and Casino Postcard Collection (PH-00367) -- Mapes Casino entrance at night. Jessie Beck's Riverside Casino is in the background in Reno, Nevada.

Image

Ruthe Scott Photographs of Las Vegas, Nevada Hotels and Casinos

Identifier

PH-00220

Abstract

The Ruthe Scott Photographs of Las Vegas, Nevada Hotels and Casinos contain color and black-and-white negatives and transparencies of Las Vegas hotels and casinos from 1960 to 1986. The collection includes the Sahara Hotel, Castaways Hotel and Casino, the Desert Inn Hotel, the Dunes Hotel, the Riviera Hotel, the Sands Hotel, the Silver Slipper Gambling Hall, Tally Ho Grounds, the Thunderbird Hotel, and the Hotel Flamingo. The collection also includes people gambling in Las Vegas casinos and two transparencies of Nevada politician Phil Tobin, who sponsored the bill to legalize gambling in 1931.

Archival Collection

Photograph of the men at the Apache Casino, Las Vegas, circa 1930s-1940s

Date

1932 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

Black and white image of men gambling inside the Apache Casino.

Image

Postcard of people in a casino, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1940-1945

Date

1940 to 1945

Description

Men and women gather together to gamble at a casino. The play the roulette wheel, black jack table, and wheel of fortune in Las Vegas at an unknown casino.

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Lalli, Sergio. Nevada Casinos Enjoy Big Year as Gambling Hits New Heights, Hotel and Motel Management 203(15), 1988 October 17

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File

Archival Collection

UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00626
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 06

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Friedman, Joseph, Simon Hakim and J. Weinblatt. Casino Gambling as a "growth pole" strategy and its effect on crime, Journal of Regional Science 29(4), 1989 November

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00626
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 16

Archival Component