The people in the American Southwest photographs series depict people in locations throughout the American Southwest from 1939 to 1980. The locations include a town in Nevada; Berkeley, Van Nuys, and Escondido, California; and the Davis Dam in Arizona.
Archival Collection
Elton and Madelaine Garrett Photograph and Architectural Drawing Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00265 Collection Name: Elton and Madelaine Garrett Photograph and Architectural Drawing Collection Box/Folder: N/A
Items left on the southwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and West Sahara Avenue as a memorial for the victims of the 1 October shooting remain under a large billboard.
The Southwest regional subject files include materials about Native American communities and gaming in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, dating from approximately 1993 to 2011. The materials include socioeconomic reports, tribal-state gaming compacts, journal articles, correspondence, Dr. Spilde’s research photographs, annual reports, brochures, booklets, Native American newspapers, conference materials, periodicals, promotional materials, and newspaper articles. The Southwest series focuses primarily on gaming, sociocultural, and economic topics in Arizona and New Mexico. Materials also document the gaming enterprises and community life of various Native American nations.
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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