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New Years Eve firework celebrations in Las Vegas: video

Date

2000-12-31 to 2001-01-01

Archival Collection

Description

Aerial footage from local Las Vegas, Nevada news stations of New Years Eve fireworks going off along Las Vegas Boulevard. Various songs play over the video footage; for other videos you can hear crowds cheering, fireworks erupting, and music playing in the distance. The Stardust Hotel is featured in most of the videos. Final segment is an actual newsbroadcast segment that also shows Times Square in New York City. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486. From the Stardust Resort and Casino Records (MS-00515) -- Photographs and audiovisual material -- Digitized audiovisual material file.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes, Bennett Field, New York, July 4, 1938

Date

1938-07-04

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection

Description

Howard Hughes sitting in an unidentified aircraft in a hangar at Bennett Field, New York.

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Transcript of interview with Jacqueline Evans by Susan Rapport, March 15, 1981

Date

1981-03-15

Archival Collection

Jacqueline Evans oral history interview

Description

On March 15, 1981, Susan Rapport interviewed Jacqueline Evans (born 1940 in Long Beach, California) about her experiences in Nevada. Evans first talks about living in Reno and Tonopah before moving to Las Vegas where she attended high school. She talks specifically about her extracurricular activities in high school, recreational activities, and other forms of entertainment. The two also discuss political events during the sixties, her husband’s involvement in Indian affairs, and the flood problem in Las Vegas. Evans also talks about bringing children up in Las Vegas, camping as a recreational activity, and the development of Lake Mead.

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Photographs of Hotel Construction: Monte Carlo, New York-New York, and Stratosphere, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1996 June (folder 1 of 1)

Date

1996-06

Archival Collection

Culinary Workers Union Local 226 Las Vegas, Nevada Photographs

Description

Arrangement note: Series III. Internal: Work

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Photograph of Howard Hughes in New York, July 1938

Date

1938-07

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection

Description

A view of Howard Hughes sitting in a car, being driven away from Floyd Bennett Airfield.

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Photograph of crowds at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, July 1938

Date

1938-07-14

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection

Description

The black and white view of Howard Hughes and his crew exiting the Lockheed 14 aircraft after they performed the final landing on the Round the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Crowds jammed on field around Hughes' plane New York City-- Police holding back part of the wildly cheering crowd of 30,000 persons from the plane of Howard Hughes after Hughes and his crew of four had landed the faint Lockheed at Floyd Bennett Field, July 14th, after the record-smashing 3 day, 19 hour, 14 minute flight around the world. Credit Line (ACME) 7/14/38 (SS)"

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