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Proceedings: Public Hearings before the Freeway Study Committee at Las Vegas City Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada, regarding expansion of I-15 through West Las Vegas, 1970 January 13 to 1970 January 16

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Item

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Las Vegas City Engineering and Planning Department Reports
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Collection Number: MS-00270
Collection Name: Las Vegas City Engineering and Planning Department Reports
Box/Folder: Box 02

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Activity Report - July/Aug/Sep by City of North Las Vegas, 1980

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File

Archival Collection

Clark County Planning Commission Research Library Collection
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Collection Number: MS-01027
Collection Name: Clark County Planning Commission Research Library Collection
Box/Folder: Box 83

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Photograph of town hall and movie theater, Beatty (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Patron provided the following comment: This was located in the 200 block of West Montgomery behind where the ambulance garage is now. Building originally was the Miner's Union Hall in Rhyolite. It was moved to Beatty in 1914.
Caption: The hall affording dances and movies.

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Film negative of Mayor Oran K. Gragson seated at his desk in City Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 21, 1961

Date

1961-12-21

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Description

Portrait of Las Vegas Mayor Oran K. Gragson seated at his desk in City Hall. A certificate From Delta dated June 25, 1961 hangs on the wall behind him. Oran Kenneth Gragson (February 14, 1911 – October 7, 2002) was an American businessman and politician. He was the longest-serving mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, from 1959 to 1975. Gragson, a member of the Republican Party, was a small business owner who was elected Mayor on a reform platform against police corruption and for equal opportunity for people of all socio-economic and racial categories. Gragson died in a Las Vegas hospice on October 7, 2002, at the age of 91. The Oran K. Gragson Elementary School located at 555 N. Honolulu Street, Las Vegas, NV 89110 was named in his honor.

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Remarks dedicating McCarran Field as port of entry facility, Las Vegas, 15 July 1971, and speech dedicating Reno International Airport as port of entry facility, 1971 July 15

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Howard Cannon Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00002
Collection Name: Howard Cannon Papers
Box/Folder: Box 06 (Speeches)

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