Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 4701 - 4710 of 5988

Neighborhood with Stratosphere Tower from Santa Rosa Drive looking northwest, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-09-12

Description

The Stratosphere Tower can be seen from the southwest corner of Santa Rosa and San Pablo Drives in this single family neighborhood just north of East Sahara Avenue.

Image

Stratosphere Tower and Monorail station on Paradise Road Looking north, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-09-12

Description

The Stratosphere Tower is seen along with the Las Vegas Monorail station at the SLS Hotel and Casino looking north down Paradis Road south of East Sahara Avenue.

Image

Film transparency of Club Bingo (Las Vegas), 1947-1952

Date

1947 to 1952

Archival Collection

Description

Nighttime view of the exterior of Club Bingo, which became the Sahara Hotel and Casino in 1952.
Site Name: Club Bingo
Address: 2535 Las Vegas Boulevard South

Image

Las Vegas Art Museum Records

Identifier

MS-00549

Abstract

The Las Vegas Art Museum Records (1952-2009) contain administrative files, press, marketing materials, and scrapbooks that document the history of the Las Vegas Art Museum (LVAM). Collection materials include exhibition files, annual reports, financial statements, board meeting agendas and minutes, event invitations, press releases, and newspaper and magazine clippings documenting the museum's activities. Materials include photographs from museum events as well as photographs of artwork displayed as part of visiting and permanent exhibitions. Audio and video recordings include interviews with museum staff and local news coverage of events. Also included are architectural floor plans for the Sahara West Library, which was used as a gallery space for LVAM. Digital files in this collection include recordings and presentation slides from LVAM lectures with curators and artists. Other digital files include photographs from LVAM events and workings files from LVAM staff.

Archival Collection

Transcript of interview with Betty Joyce Clark by Steven Knowles, February 16, 1978

Date

1978-02-16

Description

On February 16, 1978, Steven Knowles interviewed Betty Joyce Clark (born 1940 in Cartersville, Georgia) about her experiences living in Las Vegas, Nevada. Clark first talks about her early places of residence, the schools she attended, and some of the businesses she remembered from the time. She also discusses bus transportation, the first hospitals in town, and the early development of the Las Vegas Strip. Additional topics include the development of utility services for homes, early railroad activity, the development of North Las Vegas, and the first airport and airline services. The latter part of the interview includes discussion of the first department stores, the tourist population, the racial makeup of the city, the police department, and the extent of crime in Las Vegas. The interview finalizes with Clark’s thoughts on the growth of Las Vegas.

Text

Peach Orchard Road with Stratosphere Tower, looking west, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-09-28

Description

The Stratosphere Tower can be seen in the distance behind single family homes along Peach Orchard Road north of East Sahara Avenue west of Tree Line Drive.

Image

Shaded parking in the Villas at Sunrise Mountain Apartment Complex, looking west, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-09-28

Description

Shaded parking lines a road inside of the Villas at Sunrise Mountain Apartments off Tree Line Drive and East Sahara Avenue. The Stratosphere Tower can be seen in the distance.

Image

Shaded parking in the Villas at Sunrise Mountain Apartment Complex, looking west, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-09-28

Description

Shaded parking lines a road inside of the Villas at Sunrise Mountain Apartments off Tree Line Drive and East Sahara Avenue. The Stratosphere Tower can be seen in the distance.

Image

Shaded parking in the Villas at Sunrise Mountain Apartment Complex, looking west, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-09-28

Description

Shaded parking lines a road inside of the Villas at Sunrise Mountain Apartments off Tree Line Drive and East Sahara Avenue. The Stratosphere Tower can be seen in the distance.

Image

Man walks dog at Sloan Trailhead marker, looking northwest, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-09-28

Description

A man walks his dog near the Sloan Trailhead marker near Sloan Lane south of East Sahara Avenue. The trailhead is part of the Flamingo Arroyo Trail system.

Image