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Memorial at the former location of the Berlin Wall: photographic print
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Sister Rosemary Lynch holding a protest sign: photographic print
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Photograph of men playing poker at World Series tournament, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1976
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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
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Transcript of interview with Brad Nelson by Stefani Evans, October 30, 2017
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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
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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.
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Collection Name: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
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Postcard of a house made of glass bottles, Tonopah, (Nev.), 1900-1920
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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
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Site Name: Office of Justice of the Peace (Round Mountain, Nev.)
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Photograph of Frontier club at night, Las Vegas, circa mid 1930s to early 1950s
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