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Rancho California Resort: sketches of interior building perspectives, approximately 1997 to 2017
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Bergman Walls & Associates Architectural Drawings
Box/Folder: Flat File 19, Digital File 00
Archival Component
Robert Woodruff Papers
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Abstract
The Robert Woodruff Papers (1927-2001) are comprised of materials documenting Woodruff’s career and family life in Las Vegas and Henderson, Nevada, as well as his travels around the United States and abroad. Materials include newspaper clippings, photographic prints and transparencies, personal correspondence, and publications such as Las Vegas tourist brochures and pamphlets dating from the 1930s and 1940s. Visual materials include portraits, city scenes, and landscapes throughout Nevada and the United States, as well as some photographs of international travels.
Archival Collection
Geuder, Patricia A.
Patricia Geuder was born August 15, 1931 in Pontiac, Michigan. She moved to Nevada in July of 1957 to accept a teaching position at Basic High School in Henderson, Nevada. She went to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) to obtain her master’s degree when there was only one building on the whole campus: Grant Hall. Geuder became part of the Department of English staff of UNLV in 1966. She left to Albuquerque, New Mexico during 1970-1971 to work on her doctorate degree, and moved back to Las Vegas to work as a Humanities professor.
Person
Snyder, William E., AIA
William Snyder was born and raised in Easton, Pennsylvania. When he was growing up, he discovered the challenge of architecture first by perusing books in the library and then by hands-on construction experience. His love of art allowed him to build homes, office buildings, airport terminals, and the McCaw School of Mines on the campus of McCaw Elementary School in Henderson, Nevada. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978 with his wife, Joy and raised their two sons. In 2001, The William E.
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Summerhill Project, 1981 July 10
Level of Description
Scope and Contents
This set includes: preliminary sketches and site plans.
This set includes drawings for Bronze Construction (client).
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings
Box/Folder: Roll 523
Archival Component
Sunnymeade Town Homes, 1981 October 08
Level of Description
Scope and Contents
This set includes: site plans.
This set includes drawings for Charles McHaffie (client) by Peckham Engineering (engineer).
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings
Box/Folder: Roll 525
Archival Component
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Foothills Ward, Greenway Ward, and Lake Mead Ward, 2000 October 20; 2001 March 17
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Alton Dean Jensen Architectural Records
Box/Folder: Roll 217
Archival Component
Master Craft Boat Sales and Maintenance Facility, 2005 December 20; 2006 January 12
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Alton Dean Jensen Architectural Records
Box/Folder: Roll 132
Archival Component
Harry Reid oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Harry Reid conducted by Claytee D. White on July 28, 2017, December 1, 2017, August 8, 2019, and September 12, 2019 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In the first interview, Senator Harry Reid talks about his experiences as chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981. He discusses casino decisions related to the Stardust Resort and Casino, the Fremont Hotel, the Aladdin Hotel and Casino, and the Hacienda Resort Hotel and Casino as well as the FBI requesting wiretaps and the Nevada Gaming Commission issuing gaming licenses at that time. In the second interview, Reid shares details as city attorney in Henderson, Nevada, his work with the University Medical Center Hospital Board, and case details as an attorney with the firm of Singleton, DeLanoy, and Jemison. Some of the cases he describes include litigation against Safeway stores, charges of drugs and murder, and evictions.
In the third interview, Reid discusses his term serving the United States House of Representatives and his role as Senate Majority Leader. He recalls his election to Nevada Assembly in 1968, his tenure as Lieutenant Governor of Nevada from 1971 to 1975, his position as chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981, and his position as Nevada's delegate in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1987. Reid also talks about his political defeats when running for United States Senate and for Mayor of Las Vegas. In the fourth interview, Reid talks about various significant sites in Nevada including Searchlight, Yucca Mountain, and the Nevada Test Site.
Archival Collection