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Hell's Angels, approximately 1922 to 1965
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The Hell’s Angels sub-series (1922-1965) contains material related to the development, production, and post-production of The Caddo Company film, Hell’s Angels. Both the silent and sound versions of the film are represented in the materials.
Materials include contracts and lawsuits, correspondence, financial, story development, and production and direction records, editing and special effects, aviation logs, and advertising, as well as musical scores for the silent version composed by Adolph Tandler and the sound version composed by Hugo Riesenfeld. Also included are black-and-white photographic prints and negatives and twenty-four miniature airplane models.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
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Credit Professionals of Las Vegas Records
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The Credit Professionals of Las Vegas Records (1941-1999) include information about the organization and its two predecessors, the Credit Women's Club of Las Vegas, Nevada and the Credit Women's Breakfast Club of Las Vegas, Nevada. The collection includes scrapbooks, procedure manuals from the local and international division of the organization, awards received by the local division, and regional and local newsletters.
Archival Collection
Blue Diamond Mine Photograph Collection
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The Blue Diamond Mine Photograph Collection depicts operations at the Blue Diamond Mine from approximately 1950 to 1971. The photographs include images of heavy machinery, mining structures, and workers. The photographs also contain aerial views of Blue Diamond Mine and the surrounding landscape.
Archival Collection
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Women's Studies Department Records
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Records are comprised of memoranda, committee minutes, and planning documents from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Women's Studies Department from 1966 to 1993. The records document the inception of both the Women's Center and Women's Studies program at UNLV. The materials from the Women's Center document the efforts of UNLV staff to begin a women's center on campus and efforts to create a Women's Studies program.
Archival Collection
Robert Worts Photographs
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The Robert Worts Photographs depict the Corn Creek Ranch in Nevada from 1936 to 1939. Located northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, Corn Creek Ranch was home to writer George F. Worts in the late 1930s. Materials in the collection include photographs of Worts, buildings on Corn Creek Ranch, and a camp on Mount Charleston.
Archival Collection
Alan Cummings Research Files
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The Alan Cummings Research Files (1974-2004) are comprised of research files compiled by Cummings, an elementary school teacher for the Clark County School District (CCSD) in Southern Nevada. The files represent Cummings's work to persuade the Teacher's Health Trust, the employee benefit plan for the school district, to consider domestic partnership benefits for CCSD educators and administrators. Materials include personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazines, and court cases.
Archival Collection
Jackie Brett Collection on Las Vegas, Nevada Entertainment
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The Jackie Brett Collection on Las Vegas, Nevada Entertainment (1977-1996) consists of writings by Jackie Brett and publications and clippings about Las Vegas, Nevada entertainment and tourism. Brett worked for the Nevada Commission on Tourism and promoted southern Nevada through her column "Brett's Vegas View." She wrote about production shows, concerts, special performances, and events as well as the overall development of Las Vegas tourist industry in the 1980s and 1990s.
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