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Costume design drawing, topless showgirl in purple and black ensemble, Las Vegas, 1981
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Archival Collection
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Costume Details: Topless showgirl in jeweled purple and black collar and split skirt costume with large matching trailing headdress trimmed in purple and black feathers; teal and fuchsia accents. The costume was worn from the opening night of Jubilee, July 1981 until May 1984.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Bandwagon finale: Stairway
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Costume design drawing, Vienna finale costumes, Las Vegas, 1981
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Archival Collection
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Costume Details: Female performer in pale pink hoop skirt costume decorated with large fuchsia and purple grapes, black ribbons at waist, and teal hair ribbons. Male performer wearing a stylized military uniform costume with white tights, blue jacket, cape and hat trimmed with black feathers, and black boots.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Bandwagon finale: Vienna
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam) shaking a child's hand at an airport. Other people are unidentified and location is unknown: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute
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Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam) center), with two other unidentified people at an unknown location in front of an airplane: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute
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People gather and view the crosses at the 1 October memorial located at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, looking east-northeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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Following the October 1, 2017 killing of 58 people at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, the Las Vegas community responded in a variety of ways. This series of photographs document the impromptu memorial created at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign.
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Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection
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The Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection (1959-1977) consists of photographic prints, slides, and negatives pertaining primarily to aviation in Nevada. The collection includes images of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds, McCarran International Airport, vintage airplanes, air shows, and assorted events and people, including Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford, Betty Ford, and Jack Nicklaus. Erle A. Taylor served as the aviation director for Clark County, Nevada throughout the 1970s.
Archival Collection
Gladys Boggs Marshall Photographs
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The Gladys Boggs Marshall Photographs contain nine black-and-white photographs of Gladys Boggs Marshall from approximately 1912 to 1975. The photographs include three team photographs of the Clark County High School girls' basketball team, of which Gladys Boggs was a member, and four photographs of Gladys Boggs Marshall and her husband Edward B. Marshall spending time with the Ullom Family.
Archival Collection
Margaret Riskin oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Margaret Riskin conducted by Anna Huddleston on August 12, 2014 for the West Charleston Neighborhoods: an Oral History Project of Ward 1. In this interview, Riskin discusses living in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1993. She talks about moving into a home in the Scotch 80s neighborhood, her neighbors, and the home owner association for the neighborhood. Riskin describes security concerns in the Scotch 80s, experiencing a home robbery, and why she decided to relocate. Lastly, Riskin discusses community events held in her neighborhood.
Archival Collection
Richard and Gertrude Rudiak with Dani Ramage oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Richard and Gertrude Rudiak with Dani Ramage conducted by Barbara Tabach on December 30, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Richard talks about his father, who was an early Nevada Assemblyman and a civil rights activist. Gertrude discusses her hobby of playing the pipe organ, teaching in both secular and Jewish education, and being on many community boards.
Archival Collection
Sharon Maurer-Schwartz oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Sharon Maurer-Schwartz conducted by Barbara Tabach on February 01, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Maurer-Schwartz, with her wife Edna Rice, talks about being part of the gay/Jewish life together over the years including in Las Vegas, Nevada. Both women discuss why they moved to Nevada and the early days of The Center, an LGBT center, which hosted a Passover Seder.
Archival Collection