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Crosses at the former location of the Berlin Wall: photographic print

Date

1989

Description

Site where the Berlin Wall was recently taken down. Memorial crosses are pictured honoring those who died trying to escape from East Germany. Berlin, Germany 1989.

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Memorial at the former location of the Berlin Wall: photographic print

Date

1989

Description

Site where the Berlin Wall was recently taken down. Memorial crosses are pictured honoring those who died trying to escape from East Germany. Berlin, Germany 1989.

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Sister Rosemary Lynch holding a protest sign: photographic print

Date

1997-05-10

Description

A group of protestors from the Lenten Desert Experience at the Federal Building in Las Vegas, protesting nuclear testing and the Nevada Test Site. January 27, 1986. (colored print available)

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Photograph of men playing poker at World Series tournament, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1976

Date

1976

Description

A table of players in the Horseshoe Casino's Seventh World Series of Poker playing an intense game, thinking about their next move. Site Name: Horseshoe Club (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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James R. Dickinson Library

Corporate Body Alternate Name

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Library

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Corporate Body Alternate Name

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

No description.

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Transcript of interview with Brad Nelson by Stefani Evans, October 30, 2017

Date

2017-10-30

Description

In 1984, with the advice of his father ringing in his ears, Brad Nelson uprooted his wife and two children from their Denver home and moved them to Henderson, Nevada, where he would begin a new adventure in shaping the new master-planned community of Green Valley with Mark Fine and American Nevada Corporation (ANC). Nelson, lifelong Nebraskan and only child of his parents, arrived armed with a Bachelor's degree in landscape architecture with urban planning option, a Master's degree in urban planning, and fifteen years of planning and executive experience with the national firm of Harmon, O'Donnell and Henniger Planning Consultants. He arrived in time to plan Green Valley's first village, the Village of Silver Spring. By the time he left ANC for Lake Las Vegas in 1999, his work was done and most large parcels had been sold. As Nelson puts it, by 1999 ANC was "out of land, and I'm a land guy." Lake Las Vegas had plenty of undeveloped land, so "land guy" Nelson a chief operating officer

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Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (HPAIED) files, 1990-2010

Level of Description

Sub-Series

Scope and Contents

The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (HPAIED) files document the HPAIED’s efforts to research the socioeconomic impacts of Native American gaming from 1990 to 2010, with the bulk of materials dating from 2000 to 2005. The materials in this subseries document Dr. Spilde’s research while working for the HPAIED, offering valuable insight into the administration of the organization. The subseries includes materials collected by Dr. Spilde about HPAIED, the ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ (Cherokee Nation), the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and the Mvskoke (Muscogee [Creek] Nation). Also included are socioeconomic reports, NIGA reports, site visit reports, notes, HPAIED studies, essays, “Honoring Nations” HPAIED awards program materials, Harvard University promotional materials, research proposals, Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association materials, census data, bibliographies, informational booklets and packets, conference materials, and newspaper articles.

Archival Collection

Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
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Collection Number: MS-00092
Collection Name: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Postcard of a house made of glass bottles, Tonopah, (Nev.), 1900-1920

Date

1900 to 1920

Description

Caption: The Bottle House, Tonopah, Nevada
Site Name: Peck's Bottle House (Tonopah, Nev.)

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Photograph of men standing in front of Justice of the Peace and Recorder office, Round Mountain (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Jefferson Canyon Mining District
Site Name: Office of Justice of the Peace (Round Mountain, Nev.)

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