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Photograph of Boulder City High School gym, November 06, 1951
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of the front desk in the Showboat Hotel and Casino (Atlantic City), 1987
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Archival Collection
Description
Front desk of the Showboat Casino, Atlantic City.
Site Name: Showboat Hotel and Casino (Atlantic City)
Address: 801 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ
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Film transparency of Ragtown, near Boulder City, Nevada, 1931
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Archival Collection
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Mississippi of the West recording, 1991 July 04
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Scope and Contents
In this recorded KNPR documentary, Mississippi of the West or Promised Land, the narrator discusses a racially-segregated Las Vegas, Nevada, maltreatment of black performers prior to 1947, Jim Crow laws during World War II, refusal of hotel owners to abolish the color line, desegreation of most hotels in 1960, modern remnants of historically black neighborhoods, police department—black community tensions in these neighborhoods, and furthering of race relations in Las Vegas.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Arnold Shaw Interviews and Performance Recordings
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
Archival Component
Cover of Las Vegan: The City Magazine, August 1981
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Archival Collection
Description
Donn Ardenn and two showgirls from "Jubilee!" on the cover of Las Vegan: The City Magazine in August 1981. Printed on the cover: "Don Arden's Jubilee The MGM Reopens in Grandeur / Private Schools on the rise / Frank Waters interviewed."
Show Name: Jubilee!
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