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New Years Eve firework celebrations in Las Vegas: video
Date
2000-12-31 to 2001-01-01
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial footage from local Las Vegas, Nevada news stations of New Years Eve fireworks going off along Las Vegas Boulevard. Various songs play over the video footage; for other videos you can hear crowds cheering, fireworks erupting, and music playing in the distance. The Stardust Hotel is featured in most of the videos. Final segment is an actual newsbroadcast segment that also shows Times Square in New York City. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486. From the Stardust Resort and Casino Records (MS-00515) -- Photographs and audiovisual material -- Digitized audiovisual material file.
Moving Image
Photograph of a couple standing next to a car on a flooded road, St. Thomas, 1938
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
A man and woman standing near a car on a road that is being covered by the waters of Lake Mead
Image
Photograph of museum basement stairway, Boulder City (Nev.), January 10, 1938
Date
1938-01-10
Archival Collection
Description
Basement room of Boulder Dam Museum, showing a stairway and basement door in the southwest corner of the room.
Image
Photograph of museum basement corner, Boulder City (Nev.), January 10, 1938
Date
1938-01-10
Archival Collection
Description
Basement museum room, looking north, showing north corner of room. Boxes of materials are seen near the entrance doorway as light shines in from the windows.
Image
Photograph of museum basement corner, Boulder City, (Nev.), January 10, 1938
Date
1938-01-10
Archival Collection
Description
East corner of basement in Boulder City Museum.
Image
Gaming legislation: newspaper articles about gambling legislation in England and a report on Statutory Instruments, London, England; state of Illinois tax forms; copy of a Massachusetts Act on raffles and bazaars; congressional record of 92th Congress, first session; report on New York State lottery and a report on New York city police brutality; memorandum of First International Conference on Gambling; dictionary of police terms used in Knapp Commission hearings; a photocopy of article of "Casino sued by attorney," and a copy of The Sportsman Magazine, 1950 to 1971
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
UNLV Libraries Collection of Gaming Artifacts and Ephemera
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00110
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Gaming Artifacts and Ephemera
Box/Folder: Box 13
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Gaming Artifacts and Ephemera
Box/Folder: Box 13
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes and Cordell Hull, Washington D.C., July 21, 1938
Date
1938-07-21
Archival Collection
Description
Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "As Hughes Visited Washington To Thank Cordell Hull, Washing, D. C. -- Police escorting Howard Hughes holding hat, through the admiring throungs at the Washington Airport as the intrepid flyer and his four companions on his Round-The-World flight came to the Capital, July 21st, to personally thank Secretary of State Cordell Hull for his cooperation in clearing their take-offs on their flight. Credit Line (ACME) 7/21/38."
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes and Lily Pons, Beverly Hills, California, November 8, 1938
Date
1938-11-08
Archival Collection
Description
Lily Pons (left), Howard Hughes (center), and an unidentified man (right) at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Text printed on an attached strip of paper: "Noted flier and his hostess at cocktail party Los Angeles, Cal. -- Howard Hughes, noted flier, with Lily Pons, singing star, as he attended the cocktail party given by Miss Pons at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Credit Line (ACME) 11/8/38 NY LOND PAR."
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