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Senator Howard Cannon is pictured with a group of Nevada constituents, Harry Reid, and Frank Scott: photographic print

Date

1988-08-09

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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Unidentified group of men at a dinner: photographic print

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)

Description

A dinner event with many men sitting and standing in a small room. The tables are covered with dinnerware - all men are unidentified and location is unknown.

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Ken Tiffany Music Scores

Identifier

MS-00611

Abstract

The Ken Tiffany Music Scores (approximately 1956-1999) comprise a collection of published sheet music and original handwritten scores composed by Tiffany. The material also includes several pictures of Tiffany.

Archival Collection

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Institute for Security Studies Training Video on Terrorism

Identifier

UA-00026

Abstract

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Institute for Security Studies Training Video on Terrorism includes copies of the institute's training video for resort employees called "7 Signs of Terrorism" that was produced in 2008. The collection includes English language and Spanish language versions of the video.

Archival Collection

Willis B. Smith Collection on Western Airlines

Identifier

MS-00123

Abstract

The Willis B. Smith Collection (1958) on Western Airlines consists of two news releases from Western Airlines about the company's history and two letters to Willis B. Smith. The collection describes the founding of Western Airlines and its early flights from Salt Lake City, Utah to Los Angeles, California. It also contains a color photograph of a Western Air DC-10 airliner in flight.

Archival Collection

Erma Cunningham Collection on the Eldorado School District, Nelson, Nevada

Identifier

MS-00156

Abstract

The Erma Cunningham Collection on the Eldorado School District, Nelson, Nevada is comprised of materials related to the elementary school that was located in Nelson, Clark County, Nevada from 1941 through 1952. It includes attendance records, student grades, and assorted materials related to education.

Archival Collection

Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March 27, 1995

Date

1995-03-27

Description

Includes meeting agenda and minutes. CSUN Session 25 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

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Transcript of interview with Ronald "Ron" Lurie by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White, October 17, 2016 and November 10, 2016

Date

2016-10-17
2016-11-10

Archival Collection

Description

Ron Lurie is a product of Las Vegas. Ron Lurie knows Las Vegas. The Los Angeles native arrived in Las Vegas with his parents when he was twelve years old; his father opened Market Town next to White Cross Drug Store. Lurie graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1958 and attended Nevada Southern, where he played baseball and basketball before joining the United States Army Reserves. Returning from training, he began working at a new store, Fantastic Fair. Soon the owner, builder Lloyd Whaley, asked him to manage a new Fantastic Fair. At 24 years of age, he managed the entire Fantastic Fair store, which later became Wonder World. Over time, Lurie would manage three of the four Wonder World stores. In this interview, the former mayor of the City of Las Vegas and former Las Vegas City Council member talks about running for City council because he wanted more parks and ball fields downtown and about his political career, which coincided with the years of explosive growth in the 1970s and 1980s. The current vice president and general manager of Arizona Charlie's also v discusses his careers in the grocery business and in gaming; he speaks to giving back to the community and the changing demography of the area surrounding Arizona Charlie's; he talks of the ways Steve Wynn pioneered an aura of glamour that helped to upgrade Downtown Las Vegas; he recalls the challenges of public safety, regional transportation, flood control, and the Monorail and of civic dreams of a magnetic levitation train that would connect Downtown Las Vegas to Cashman Field. He remembers his parents and his wife; he talks about his children, and he shares vignettes of, among many others, Ernie Becker IV, Bill Briare, Al Levy, Steve Miller, and Bob Stupak. Throughout, Mayor Lurie especially beams when he talks about his family, his friends, his work, Las Vegas, the Boys and Girls Clubs, and baseball. This man loves baseball.

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