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Costume design drawing, long blue evening gown #4, Las Vegas, June 5, 1980
Date
1980-06-05
Archival Collection
Description
Bob Mackie design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "principal girl singer (blue long #4)."
Costume Details: Showgirl wearing a long blue evening gown with matching hair ornaments.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Bandwagon Finale: Stairway
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Costume Details: Showgirl wearing a long blue evening gown with matching hair ornaments.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Bandwagon Finale: Stairway
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Photograph of Vassili Sulich, Tessa Beaumont and an unidentified male dancer performing in the ballet "L'Echelle," Paris, France, 1956
Date
1956
Archival Collection
Description
L-R: Vassili Sulich, Tessa Beaumont, and an unidentified male ballet dancer in the ballet "L'Echelle," choreographed by Milko Sparemblek, in Paris, France.
Show Name: L'Echelle (ballet)
Show Name: L'Echelle (ballet)
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Photograph of Donn Arden, René Fraday, Pierre-Louis Guérin, Margaret Kelly and two unidentified men dining at the Lido, Paris, France, 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Donn Arden, René Fraday, Pierre Louis Guerin, Margaret Kelly (Madame Bluebell), and two unidentified men dining at an after-show party at the Lido in Paris.
Show Name: Lido (Paris, France)
Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)
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Costume design drawing, black ruffled Spanish flamenco costume with brimmed hat and lace detailing, circa 1965-75
Date
1965 to 1975
Archival Collection
Description
Costume Details: Black and white Spanish flamenco female dancer costume with oversized black ruffled sleeves, a white net top, black ruffles at the knees, white boots, and a black brimmed hat, shown front and back.
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Costume design drawing, blue ballet costume for male dancer, Las Vegas, 1981
Date
1981
Archival Collection
Description
Bob Mackie design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "4 Principal boy dancers (Vienna, ballet look)."
Costume Details: Male dancer in blue ballet style costume with sheer ballooned sleeves; decorated with fuchsia trim; matching boots.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Bandwagon finale: Vienna
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
Costume Details: Male dancer in blue ballet style costume with sheer ballooned sleeves; decorated with fuchsia trim; matching boots.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Bandwagon finale: Vienna
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Photograph of Bluebells posing outside of Pan Am jet, 1958
Date
1958
Archival Collection
Description
The Bluebells dance troupe poses on the steps of a Pan Am jet plane as they arrive in Las Vegas to open the new Lido de Paris show at the Stardust Hotel. Other members of the Bluebells pose with Margaret Kelly ("Madame Bluebell") and Lido owner/producer Pierre-Louis Guérin on the tarmac below the plane. All are dressed in street clothes and some are holding small carry-on bags.
Show Name: Lido de Paris (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Show Name: Lido de Paris (Las Vegas, Nev.)
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Aerial photograph of the Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, July 14, 1938
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial view of the crowd greeting Howard Hughes and crew at the Floyd Bennett Airport in New York after completion of the around-the-world flight.
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Photograph of the Hughes HK-1 Flying Boat docked at the Los Angeles Harbor, November 1, 1947
Date
1947-11-01
Archival Collection
Description
View of Hughes Flying Boat port bow in dry dock at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor. Howard Hughes and Jack Jerman can be seen on the platform in the background.
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Photograph of Maurine Wilson and her nieces at the Thomas and Mack Si Redd Room in Las Vegas, March 12, 1988
Date
1988-03-12
Archival Collection
Description
Maurine Wilson, seated, is surrounded by her nieces Jeanne Honrath Williams and Mary Jane Reiter of the pioneer Las Vegas Griffith Family at the 90th birthday party held for Maurine Wilson on March 12, 1988 at the Thomas and Mack Si Redd Room.
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Photograph of a group of women at Maurine Wilson's 90th birthday party at the Thomas and Mack, Las Vegas, March 12, 1988
Date
1988-03-12
Archival Collection
Description
Maisie Gibson Ronnow (left), Maria Tiberti, Harley Harmon, Carolyn Thompson Trelease and Flo Mlynarczyk, the first president of the University Library Society. Both Harmon and Trelease were piano students of Mrs. Wilson. The 90th birthday party held for Maurine Wilson at the Thomas and Mack Si Redd Room.
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