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Tourists using overpass on the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-02-28

Description

Providing security and access to both automobile and pedestrian traffic is handled differently along Las Vegas Boulevard and has changed over the years on the Strip. First installed in the 1990s, the pedestrian overpass has become commonplace along the Las Vegas Strip. Here, tourists ride an escalator near the Cromwell Las Vegas hotel and casino.

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Tourists using overpass on the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-02-28

Description

Providing security and access to both automobile and pedestrian traffic is handled differently along Las Vegas Boulevard and has changed over the years on the Strip. First installed in the 1990s, the pedestrian overpass has become commonplace along the Las Vegas Strip. Here, tourists ride an escalator near the Cromwell Las Vegas hotel and casino.

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Photograph of Las Vegas Water Board, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1940s

Date

1940 to 1949

Description

The Las Vegas Water Board, L-R: Miller, Chief of Police, Tom Campbell (Campbell Realty), Otto Underhill (Coca Cola), Jim Cashman, Sr., Victor Shurtliff, ?, Helen Scott Reed-County Clerk

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Slide of Las Vegas Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1971-1977

Date

1971 to 1977

Description

Distant view of Las Vegas Stadium (later the Silver Bowl, then Sam Boyd Stadium).

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The Wheel of Rotary Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, July 28, 1949

Date

1949-07-28

Archival Collection

Description

Newsletter issued by the Las Vegas Rotary Club

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Photograph of the exterior corner of the Las Vegas Club (Las Vegas), circa 1980s

Date

1980 to 1989

Description

Nighttime view of the exterior corner of the Las Vegas Club at Fremont and Main Streets. Part of the Mint can be seen to the right.
Site Name: Las Vegas Club
Address: 18 East Fremont Street

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Fountainbleau Las Vegas Sits Dormant, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2016-02-06

Description

The dormant Fontainebleau Las Vegas on the Strip as seen from the SLS Hotel and Casino valet. The Fontainebleau was announced as the Las Vegas version of a classic Miami Beach hotel. Construction started in 2007, and stopped in 2009. In November of that year, financier Carl Ichan purchased the unfinished Fontainebleau out of bankruptcy. The following year, he sold off the fittings and furnishings purchased for the hotel. In late 2015, the Fontainebleau was listed as being for sale.

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Film transparency of the Las Vegas Day train ride, Las Vegas, circa 1980

Date

1980

Description

Elbert Edwards and his family at the Las Vegas Day train ride in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Las Vegas

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Robert Woodruff Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00455
Collection Name: Robert Woodruff Papers
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Las Vegas

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Harold Stocker Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00006
Collection Name: Harold Stocker Photographs
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component