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Photograph of Hal Erickson and Robbins Cahill, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 1977

Date

1977-04

Description

Hal Erickson and Robbins Cahill looking at his 5-volume oral history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Typed description provided with image: "Robbine Cahill Oral History Transcript. [April 01, 1979, L-R: Hal Erickson; Robbins Cahill]. State regulation of gaming in Nevada began with Robbins Cahill. As early as 1945 when we became a member of the nevada State Tax Commission, Cahill had been in part responsible for enforcement of the state's first gaming regulations. When Nevada's Gaming Control Board was established in 1955, Cahill became its first chairman. With his encyclopedic memory Robbins Cahill is the most authoritative figure on gaming history in Nevada. His six-volume oral history is the richest and most vivid source of information in Nevada on the development of state gaming regulation."

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Film transparency of Alaska Politicians and Air Force officials, Sands Hotel, May 6, 1959

Date

1959-05-06

Archival Collection

Description

From left to right: Colonel James Isbell (AAC, United States Air Force), Colonel A. W. Brownfield, (LADD, AFB), Burton Cohen, H. Lounsberry (The Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska), Paul Haggland ( Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska), And Judge J. L. McCarrey (4th Judicial Division Judge in Alaska) at the Sands hotel in Las Vegas, May 6, 1959

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Photograph of Alaska Politicians and Air Force officials, Sands Hotel, May 6, 1959

Date

1959-05-06

Archival Collection

Description

From left to right: Colonel James Isbell (AAC, United States Air Force), Colonel A. W. Brownfield, (LADD, AFB), Burton Cohen, H. Lounsberry (The Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska), Paul Haggland ( Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska), And Judge J. L. McCarrey (4th Judicial Division Judge in Alaska) at the Sands hotel in Las Vegas, May 6, 1959

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Photograph of Volunteer Fire Department Party, Las Vegas, 1935

Date

1935

Description

Identification given with photograph: "Volunteer Fire Department Christmas party. Identified in the photograph: Jack Wilson; Mrs. Mellott; Tom Pickett; Jas Downs; Scotty Brewner; Ed Stairnsky; Miss Farrell; Rebecca Jones; Etta May Johnson; [no first name] Snyder; Miss Bill Hall; Glen Jones; Bill [Trealease?]; Mrs. Jack Wilson; Mrs. Snyder, Sr.; Lola Adams; Mrs. Leavitt; Mrs. Tom Pickett; Bill Johnson; Dick Leavitt; Loren Shaw; Shorty [DeBrink?]; Eddie Volz; Irene [DeBrink?]; Lyn [Botters?]; [Mrs. Martin ?]; Jas Adams; Billy [Trealease?], Jr.; Leon Rockwell; Alice Johnson; Mrs. Lyn [Botters?]; Mrs. Leon Rockwell; Archie Mellott; Bill Hall; Lucille Syvinsky; [Stell?] Snyder; Harry Johnson; Mrs. [Jackson?]; [Mayden Trealease?]; Harold Case; Mrs. Brenner; Mrs. Bill [Trealease?]; [no first name] Putnam; Mrs. Voltz; Mrs. H. Case"

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Slide of Petroglyphs on a rock, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 2000s

Date

Unknown year in the decade of the 2000s (year approximate)

Description

Petroglyphs in the Boulder City Dry Fall Area. The exact location is unknown, but the location is possibly in Keyhole Canyon. Petroglyphs are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images. Petroglyphs are found world-wide, and are often associated with prehistoric peoples. The word comes from the Greek words petro-, theme of the word "petra" meaning "stone", and glyphein meaning "to carve", and was originally coined in French as pétroglyphe. The term petroglyph should not be confused with petrograph, which is an image drawn or painted on a rock face. Both types of image belong to the wider and more general category of rock art or parietal art. Petroforms, or patterns and shapes made by many large rocks and boulders over the ground, are also quite different. Inukshuks are also uni

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Photograph of Las Vegas Education Association, Las Vegas, circa late 1940s

Date

1945 to 1949

Description

Education leaders gathered together for a social event given by Las Vegas Education Association in Las Vegas, Nevada. Seated, left to right: Miss Lucille Chandler; Mrs. Clarabelle Hanley; Miss Helen Marie Smith; and Miss Maude Frazier, former Superintendent of schools in Las Vegas. Second row, left to right: Samuel B. Kurtz; Miss Rozie Copenhaver; Harvey Dondero; Duane D. Keller; Mrs. Adrian Dubois Walter V. Long; Miss Doris French; K. O. Knudson; and Mrs. Roma Knight. Third Row, left to right: Roy McCaughey and Oran Ballinger.

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Slide of the This Is The Place Monument, Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1990s

Date

1990 to 1999

Description

A statue of early trappers that is inscribed with "This is the place." A view of the left-hand side of the This is the Place Monument. Several individual sculptures make up the full monument. The This is the Place Monument is a historical monument at the This is the Place Heritage Park, located on the east side of Salt Lake City, Utah, at the mouth of Emigration Canyon. It is named in honor of Brigham Young's famous statement in 1847 that the Latter-day Saint pioneers should settle in the Salt Lake Valley. Sculpted between 1939 and 1947 by Mahonri M. Young, a grandson of Brigham Young, it stands as a monument to the Mormon pioneers as well as the explorers and settlers of the American West. It was dedicated by LDS Church President George Albert Smith on 24 July 1947, the hundredth anniversary of the pioneers entering the Salt Lake Valley. It replaced a much smaller monument located nearby.

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Photograph of Bonanza Airline Executives, Las Vegas, November 27, 1962

Date

1962-11-27

Archival Collection

Description

A meeting of Bonanza Airline Executives in Las Vegas, Nevada. From left to right, the men attending the meeting include John Hays (Phoenix Station Manager), Darrel Zickafoose (San Diego Station Manager), General Joe Battley (Sands Executive), Bernie Novia (Director of Station Operations), G. Robert Henry (Executive Vice President), Richard Hart (Arizona Station Manager), and Art Armstrong (Salt Lake City Station Manager).

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Photograph of Brigadier General Joe Battley, Mrs. William Stuart, Robert Fiedman, and William M. Stuart at the Sands Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, February 11, 1963

Date

1963-02-11

Archival Collection

Description

From left to right, retired Brigadier General Joe Battley (then Executive assistant to the President of the Sands Hotel), Mrs. William Stuart, Robert Fiedman (General council of the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America), and William M. Stuart (President of the Martin-Senour Company in Chicago, Illinois) in the Emerald Room of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Photograph of Virginia Page, Miss Las Vegas, Sands Hotel, June 2, 1957

Date

1957-06-02

Archival Collection

Description

Nineteen year old Virginia Page from Brighton, England, winner of Meet Me In Las Vegas contest. Page, as Miss Las Vegas, won a trip to Las Vegas for a week starting June 2, 1957. Here she can be seen wearing a white bathing suit, a sash, and a crown. From left to right, the people standing in the picture include Bob Ottaway, Charles Goldsmith, Virginia Page (Miss Las Vegas), Glen Cradely (Trans World Airlines), and Yolande Donlan (Chairman of the panel of judges for the contest).

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