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Photograph of Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah, Nevada, pre-1980
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Archival Collection
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Slide of the Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, circa late 1940s-early 1950s
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of the front exterior of the Las Vegas Club, 1930s
Date
Archival Collection
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Site Name: Las Vegas Club
Address: 18 East Fremont Street
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Photograph of Las Vegas Club and Overland Hotel (Las Vegas) at night, after 1949
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Archival Collection
Description
Site Name: Las Vegas Club
Address: 18 East Fremont Street
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Photograph of the hotel lobby of the Desert Inn (Las Vegas), after 1950
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Archival Collection
Description
Site Name: Desert Inn
Address: 3045 Las Vegas Boulevard South
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Lillian and Lloyd Morrison oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Lillian and Lloyd Morrison conducted by Don Morrison on October 20, 1991 for the UNLV Libraries Oral History Collection. The Morrison's talk about the loss of their Iowa farm in the Great Depression and Lloyd's decision to set out for Nevada to seek work at the Hoover dam construction site. He speaks at length about finding work, working on the dam, and an injury suffered in a fall that left him temporarily in a wheelchair. Lillian recalls arriving in Boulder City, Nevada some three years after Lloyd, of various homes the couple and their young son lived in, taking in boarders for extra money, and the growth and contraction of the town's population.
Archival Collection
Audio clip from interview with Mike and Sallie Gordon by Adriane Massa, March 2, 1977
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Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Mike and Sallie Gordon on March 2, 1977. In this clip, Gordon discusses moving to Nevada and life in Las Vegas.
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