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Dedication of the Gold Star Mothers War Memorial in City Hall Park in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, 1952

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Nita Londo Rieger Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00315
Collection Name: Nita Londo Rieger Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01

Archival Component

Frazier Hall: photographic print

Date

1978 (year approximate)

Description

From the Historic Building Survey Photograph Collection (PH-00345). Frazier Hall, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Press release announcing Howard Hughes' purchase of the Sands Hotel

Date

1967-07-24

Description

Press release quoting Bob Paige announcing Howard Hughes' acquistion of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

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Howard Cannon portrait: photographic print

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1983 (year approximate)

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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Howard Cannon posing: photographic print

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1983 (year approximate)

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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Howard Cannon posed in a conference room with others at the Air Force Ballistic Missile Headquarters, X-15 Test Facility in Los Angeles, California: photographic print

Date

1959-03-04 (approximate) to 1959-03-07

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Official United States Air Force Photograph - Anderson AFB Washington 25, D.C."

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Proceedings: Public Hearings before the Freeway Study Committee at Las Vegas City Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada, regarding expansion of I-15 through West Las Vegas, 1970 January 13 to 1970 January 16

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Las Vegas City Engineering and Planning Department Reports
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Collection Number: MS-00270
Collection Name: Las Vegas City Engineering and Planning Department Reports
Box/Folder: Box 02

Archival Component

Workers from the Hoover Dam in the Anderson Brothers Dining Hall, Boulder City, Nevada, approximately 1931-1936

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Charles P. Squires Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00002
Collection Name: Charles P. Squires Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 03

Archival Component

Two boys donating money to erect a monument in City Hall Park in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

From the Nita Londo Rieger Photograph Collection (PH-00315). Identified from left to right: Sadie Alger, Butch Woolley, Ned Londo, and Thelma Swanner. "The boys are each donating $10 toward the monument to be erected in the Las Vegas City Park in honor of Las Vegas youths who lost their lives in World Wars I, II, and the Korean War. Mrs. Swanner and Mrs. Alger are members of the Gold Star Mothers."

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Photograph of town hall and movie theater, Beatty (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Patron provided the following comment: This was located in the 200 block of West Montgomery behind where the ambulance garage is now. Building originally was the Miner's Union Hall in Rhyolite. It was moved to Beatty in 1914.
Caption: The hall affording dances and movies.

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