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Costume design drawing, topless showgirl as visiting royalty #16, Las Vegas, June 5, 1980
Date
1980-06-05
Archival Collection
Description
Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "bluebell (d) or nude (g) (visiting royalty #16)."
Costume Details: Topless showgirl wearing a large headdress and pleated cape.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Samson and Delilah: Banquet
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Costume Details: Topless showgirl wearing a large headdress and pleated cape.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Samson and Delilah: Banquet
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Costume design drawing, Samson, tattered look, Las Vegas, June 5, 1980
Date
1980-06-05
Archival Collection
Description
Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "principal male dancer (Samson, tattered look)."
Costume Details: Male bare-chested dancer with blindfold and chains.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Samson and Delilah: Underground
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Costume Details: Male bare-chested dancer with blindfold and chains.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Samson and Delilah: Underground
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Photograph of showgirls and performers in the Lido de Paris at the Stardust Hotel, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1977
Date
1977
Archival Collection
Description
Showgirls wearing beaded bikinis and large feathered headdresses perform with two female singers wearing gowns and tiaras in a production number from the Lido de Paris at the Stardust Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Show Name: Lido de Paris (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Site Name: Stardust Resort and Casino
Show Name: Lido de Paris (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Site Name: Stardust Resort and Casino
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Costume design drawing, feathered turquoise showgirl costume decorated with stars, Las Vegas, 1974
Date
1974
Archival Collection
Description
Costume design for Hallelujah Hollywood!, an MGM Grand Hotel production.
Costume Details: Two-piece bikini-type jeweled showgirl costume with stars, with matching cuffs and headpiece; embellished with oversized turquoise feather tail and plumes.
Show Name: Hallelujah Hollywood!
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Costume Details: Two-piece bikini-type jeweled showgirl costume with stars, with matching cuffs and headpiece; embellished with oversized turquoise feather tail and plumes.
Show Name: Hallelujah Hollywood!
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Photograph of billboard in Paris advertising Lido, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Outdoor night shot from a street lined with parked cars of a billboard advertising the Lido Cabaret-Restaurant in Paris. A lamppost and traffic signal are seen to the left in front of another billboard advertising TWA. The billboards are illuminated by electric spotlights.
Show Name: Lido (Paris, France)
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
Show Name: Lido (Paris, France)
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
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Photograph of the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, Nevada-Arizona border, January 12, 2011
Date
2011-01-12
Archival Collection
Description
Photographer's notes: "The full form and structure of the bridge, its arch, piers and girders, are revealed in a view from the Nevada canyon wall near the old Nevada hairpin turn. The reflected light of Hoover Dam provides the primary night time illumination of this side of the bridge." Site Name: Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge
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Photograph of a search party at the remains of Maury Graham's crashed plane, Utah, circa 1930
Date
1930 to 1932
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white image of a search party at the site of Maury Graham's plane crash. Graham, an airmail pilot, made a forced landing in the mountains near Zion National Park in 1930. He survived, but froze to death in a blizzard that winter. The plane was located in June after the snow had finally melted, and his body was found weeks later.
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Photograph of a search party at the remains of Maury Graham's crashed plane, Utah, circa 1930
Date
1930 to 1932
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white image of a search party at the site of Maury Graham's plane crash. Graham, an airmail pilot, made a forced landing in the mountains near Zion National Park in 1930. He survived, but froze to death in a blizzard that winter. The plane was located in June after the snow had finally melted, and his body was found weeks later.
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Photograph of Scotty's Castle, Death Valley (Calif.), 1922-1935
Date
1922 to 1935
Archival Collection
Description
Scotty's Castle, also known as Death Valley Ranch, is located in the Grapevine Mountains in Death Valley National Park. It was built by Albert Mussey Johnson and named after Walter Scott. Inscribed on the front of the photo is: "Scotty's Death Valley Ranch, Death Valley. Frashers Foto - Pomona." Site Name: Scotty's Castle (Death Valley, Calif.)
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Photograph of the Sahara Hotel float in the Helldorado Parade, Las Vegas (Nev.), circa 1948
Date
1948 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
Dozens and dozens of people sit and watch the swan-shaped float from the Sahara hotel drive during the Helldorado parade. The float is in front of the Western Gambling Hall. The float is driving down Fremont Street in 1948 or 1949. Site Name: Westerner Gambling Hall and Saloon (Las Vegas, Nev.) Street Address: 23 Fremont Street
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