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Photograph of water running high in flood channel and North Las Vegas Boulevard flood channel
Date
1970 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Flood channel with water running high under North Las Vegas Boulevard. Signs on front for 91 and 93 freeways
Transcribed Notes: Notes from photo sleeve: "Las Vegas Boulevard North and North Las Vegas flood channel, ca. 1970s." Notes on back: "Las Vegas Blvd North and NLV flood channel."
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Aerial photograph of Las Vegas in the mid to late 1930s
Date
1935 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial photo of Las Vegas looking south.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "[L. Foreground, old city hall. R. foreground, post office. Circular Park w/Boy scout structures (7)] "Aerial view of Las Vegas shows old park with race track (about where municipal swimming pool is) Small huts in group were Boy Scout huts made of stone. Scout troups met here surrounded by park taken middle or late 30's."- Dave Coons"
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Photograph of the Horseshoe Hotel & Casino at night (Las Vegas), 1960s
Date
unspecified year in 196X
Archival Collection
Description
Night view of the Horseshoe Hotel and Casino. Stamped on original: "Jay Florian Mitchell. Photographer. 614 So. 6th DU 4-5148 Las Vegas, Nevada. Douglass Studio, Inc. 614 South Sixth. Dudley 4-5148. Las Vegas, Nevada."
Site Name: Horseshoe Club
Address: 128 East Fremont Street
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Photograph of Peter Lawford performing at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, circa 1960
Date
1960 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Peter Lawford performing at the Sands, in the late 1950s to early 1960s. Seated in the front of the stage are several celebrities, including Marilyn Monroe, Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, Dean Martin, and his wife, Jeanne Martin.
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Photograph of the MGM Grand Las Vegas and hotels on Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1993-1994
Date
1993 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
A night view of the MGM Grand Las Vegas (with lion's head entrance) at the right, on the northeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada. The Aladdin Hotel, Bally's and other properties are seen to the left.
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Photograph and newspaper clipping of Las Vegas Rotary Club party, Las Vegas, circa 1941-1942
Date
1941 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Rotary party at Jack Woods' ranch at the southeast intersection of Flamingo and Maryland Parkway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Standing in the front row on deck: Robert Russell, Allye Lawson, Frances Butterfield, Dr. Stan Hardy, Major Sweeney. Seen sitting in the second row: Mrs. James Shaver, Mrs. Harvey Luce, Bess Gatewood, Maxwell Kelch, Laura Belle Kelch, William J. Moore, Pat Moore, ?, Pop Squires, Al Sharp, Mrs. Fred O'Donnell, Anna Fayle, Vanita Sharp, Ora Sells. Standing in the third row: Mrs. Harry Miller, Mathilda Russell, Jack Wollenzine, Mrs. Wollenzine, ?, ?, Charlie Dimock, Mrs. Dimmock, ?, ?, Leo McNamee, Florence Lawson, Mrs. O.W. Yates, Delphine Squires, Mrs. Frank Case, ?, ?, Nola Hardy, Les Edwards, Muriel Edwards, Cecile Oram. Seen in the fourth row: Mrs. Rosemary Ruymann, Hary Miller, Carl Hyde, James Cashman Sr., Dr. ?, Mrs. ?, Bryan Bunker, Al Wendelboe, Mrs. Cashman, Mrs. B. Bunker, Juanita Gusewelle, ?, Marge Allen, R.J. Willstead, Frank Case, Chris Rasmussen, Mrs. ?, Reine Underhill, Otto Underhill, Lola Woodbury, Clare Woodbury, Charlie Sells, Leonard Fayle, ?, ?, Dalton Buck, Mrs. ?, Fran McNamee, J.W. Wilson. Seen in the top row: Frank Gusewelle, Jim Shaver, Jack Wood, ?, Dick Clough, Mrs. Clough, ?, Coach Harvey Stanford, Cliff Leonard, ?, Harvey Luce, Harry Allen, Marion Earl, Vic Shurtleff, Mrs. ?, Myrtle Ronnow, ?, Lorin Ronnow.
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Fine, Mark L., 1946-
Mark Fine was born February 10, 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio, and was raised with a strong Jewish identity. When Fine was in fourth grade, his parents moved the family to Shaker Heights, and again moved to Arizona during his senior of high school. Upon graduation, Fine enrolled at the University of Arizona and became a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. He graduated in 1964 with a degree in business administration with an emphasis in real estate.
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Rojas, Mirtha
Mirtha Rojas is originally from La Habana, Cuba and came to the United States to join his brother that had lived in Miami since Mirtha was a child. Mirtha describes her childhood as many happy moments where she learned and enjoyed musical instruments from a young age, and became a music teacher in Cuba as well. Mirtha states after her parents had died, she faced some difficult times and her brother invited her to come to Miami where she arrived in 2009 along with her nine year old daughter.
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