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Press release about proposed expenditures from bond issue, Clark County, Nevada, 1953
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Archival Collection
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News announcement release of the Las Vegas Valley Water District's spending plans for money raised from a $8,700,000 bond issue. The list was compiled by the district consulting engineer, James M. Montgomery and included improvement projects and their estimated cost. A document which detailed the voter registration process for the bond election is referenced below.
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Dennis Ortwein oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Dennis Ortwein conducted by Claytee D. White on May 06, 2009 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Ortwein discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956 and his various careers as an elementary school teacher, a junior high teacher, and an elementary school principal. He also discusses working at a teacher's college in Nigeria, being a church choir director, and his experience as a singer. He then talks about school integration in Las Vegas and above-ground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site.
Archival Collection
Architectural drawing of the Hacienda (Las Vegas), alternate plot plan, January 6, 1955
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Archival Collection
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Early plans for the Lady Luck, later the Hacienda. "VOID" written on the drawing. Drawn by: M.S. Original medium: pencil on paper.
Site Name: Hacienda
Address: 3590 Las Vegas Boulevard South
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National Foundation for Asthmatic Children, Sahuaro School: photographs and correspondence regarding Red Skelton's sponsorship of fundraising
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Archival Collection
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Series XI. Red Skelton
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