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"The Unlikely Look Alike": article draft by Roosevelt Fitzgerald

Date

1980 (year approximate) to 1995 (year approximate)

Description

From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Drafts for the Las Vegas Sentinel Voice file. On contests that exclude major segments of population.

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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie George

Date

1917-02 to 1917-03

Archival Collection

Description

This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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Pom Fritz oral history interview: transcript

Date

2021-06-08

Archival Collection

Description

Oral history interview with Pom Fritz conducted by Kristel Peralta and Stefani Evans on June 8, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Pom talks about her family and upbringing in Udon Thani, Thailand and her immigration to the United States with her second husband, an American citizen, in 1972. She discusses living on Air Force bases in North Carolina and California before moving to Las Vegas and finding work at different hotels. Pom shares her experiences as a member, steward, and executive board representative of the Culinary Workers Union and what she recalls from the Frontier Strike. She also talks about her children and grandchildren, some of whom still live in Thailand.

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Photograph of the Flamingo Hotel at sunset, Las Vegas, circa mid 1950s

Date

1953 to 1958

Archival Collection

Description

Exterior view of the Flamingo Hotel at sunset. The illuminated champagne tower is visible and a marquee advertising Betty Grable and Harry James is seen in the background.

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Photograph of individuals at Special Collections, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, September 1975

Date

1975-09

Description

From left to right: Susan Jarvis, Hal Erickson, and Alfreda Blood in the Special Collections department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). They are examining the Leonard T. Blood papers just donated to UNLV Special Collections.

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Lawrence Revere Papers

Identifier

MS-00064

Abstract

The Lawrence Revere Papers primarily consist of correspondence between Lawrence Revere and the developers of blackjack betting systems dating from 1965 to 1970. The collection includes information about blackjack gambling systems, correspondence with gambling experts, and press material regarding the publication of Revere's book Playing Blackjack as a Business.

Archival Collection