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"Hard Copy" segment about Bob Stupak: video
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Archival Collection
Description
News anchor reports on Stupak placing the largest legal bet in history; Vegas World and Stupak "brand" and creation of the Stratosphere Tower; Stupak guest starring in "Crime Story" episode;. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486. From the Bob Stupak Professional Papers (MS-01016) -- Professional papers -- Audiovisual material -- Digitized audiovisual clips file.
Moving Image
Memos from advertising organizations; newspaper articles about advertising; informational materials on marketing and crime; and notes about lottery advertising, 1998, 1999
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
Box/Folder: Box 37
Archival Component
News segments about the Stratosphere's financial problems and bankruptcy filing: video
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Moving Image
Memo from A. M. Folger to Walter R. Bracken about drill wells, June 12, 1945
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Account of a meeting called by the State Engineer to discuss applications to drill wells. The Las Vegas Land and Water Company and Robert Griffith both dropped their objections and both were allowed permits. Those in attendance discussed the issues going forward. Memo has date stamps from E.E.B., H.E.D. and U.P. R.R. Co. Law Department, Los Angeles.
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Jacques Ribbons photos and narrative about Nazi gold, 1999
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Scope and Contents
Jacques Ribbons was a Holocaust survivor who later resettled in Las Vegas; this folder contains a story by the New York Times about American G.I.'s looting Nazi gold and Jacques Ribbon's recollections about that event
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Joshua Abbey Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01
Archival Component
Channel 8 news segment about expansions to the Stratosphere: video
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Moving Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes being escorted into the Rico Hotel, Houston, Texas, July 30, 1938
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Archival Collection
Description
Image
Dickover, LaPorta, Ivary, Engel, and Van Waganen being sworn in as city officials: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
Image
Photograph of the Union Pacific Railroad Depot being transported from Boulder City (Nev.), 1974
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Film transparency of a canyon wall being blasted by dynamite, Hoover Dam, November 13, 1932
Date
Archival Collection
Description
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