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Casino, racetrack, sports betting, and hospitality industry facilities and corporations files, 1975-2000
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Materials contain management and operational control procedure manuals, reports, statistics, pamphlets, informational packets, and newspaper articles about gaming facilities and corporations collected by Gary W. Royer for consulting purposes in his role as a gaming consultant and President of Casino Control Corporation (CCC) (1975-2000). Materials are primarily comprised of management and operation control procedure manuals and research files about various gaming facilities in Nevada. Also included is data compiled by Royer that include company profiles, financial data, type of gaming conducted on premises, notes, and record of owners and key employees.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Gary W. Royer Collection on Gaming
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Marshall L. Wright Collection on the Riviera Hotel
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The Marshall L. Wright Collection on the Riviera Hotel (1944-1956) consists of a disassembled scrapbook, a small amount of newspaper clippings, and correspondence from Marshall L. Wright. He served as the general manager of the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada beginning in 1954 and remained in the role through the hotel’s opening on April 20, 1955. By late 1955, he moved to a similar role at the Flamingo Las Vegas. Materials document the opening of the Riviera including black-and-white photographs of the construction of the hotel, press kits, brochures, and other promotional material. The collection includes a small amount of promotional material from the Flamingo.
Archival Collection
Transcript of interview with Alice Key by Claytee D. White, February 17, 1997
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Archival Collection
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Interview with Alice Key conducted by Claytee D. White on February 17, 1997. Dancer, writer, and community activist, Key served as Deputy Labor Commissioner for the State of Nevada and leader of the NAACP in Las Vegas. As a newspaper reporter, she exposed the separation of blood plasma according to race in World War II. With Bob Bailey, Key created the first all-black television show in the nation and a radio program, interviewing black entertainers in a talk-show format.
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Publicity photographs of Howard Hughes and Hughes aircraft and clippings about technical drawings of Hughes aircraft: photograph album
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Archival Collection
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Mixed Content
Correspondence, 1939-1968
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Letter from Howard Keele, Nevada Federation of Labor; from Nevada Veterans of Foreign Wars; from Governor E.P. Carville appointing H. E. Hazard to the Council of Defense of Nevada; letter of recommendation from Wayne McLeod, Surveyor General of Nevada; letter of recommendation from J. G. Allard, Secretary, Nevada Tax Commisson; from E. P. Carville; letter of recommendation from E. P. Carville, governor of Nevada; letter of appointment as Inspector of the Nevada Tax Commission; letter of resignation to Governor Pittman as Inspector of Nevada Tax Commission; from the Legislative Counsel Bureau requesting a biography; letter from Governor Alan Bible; letter from Peyton Ford; letter from William Walker resigning as Director of Planning of the Regional Planning Commission of Clark County, Nevada; letter from Clark County Clerk about the dissolution of the Regional Planning Commission; letter from Judge David Zenoff; correspondence to Mrs. Hazard about book, The Newspapering Murrays; two letters from Senator Alan Bible.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: H. E. and Ruth Hazard Political Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01
Archival Component
Clyde Rufus Terrell seated at the linotype machine at the Tonopah Times Bonanza: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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This photo was taken about two years prior to his death in 1950. From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.D. Terrell Family. Clyde Rufus Terrell seated at the linotype machine at the Tonopah Times Bonanza, which he owned, Tonopah, Nevada. Terrell would compose stories for the newspaper at the linotype keyboard.
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