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Promissory note from Aaron Winters to E.B. Kiel
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Archival Collection
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Keeler, Dorothy A., 1900-1976
Dorothy Keeler (1900-1976) served as the Chief Deputy County Clerk in Clark County, Nevada in the 1930s. In this position, she issued many marriage licenses to Hollywood celebrities and others who came to Las Vegas to get married. Born Dorothy Alice Vandewerkern in Otego, New York, she married Charles Keeler in Reno, Nevada in 1927. The couple relocated to Las Vegas where Charles Keeler worked for Frank Garside at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The Keelers later moved to Washington, D.C.
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Louise Kirkwood interview, February 28, 1979: transcript
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Archival Collection
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On February 28th, 1979, collector Richard Probst interviewed Louise Kirkwood (born December 13th, 1925 in Kemmerer, Wyoming) at her residence in North Las Vegas, Nevada. In the interview, Mrs. Kirkwood discusses moving to Nevada and raising her family. She also discusses recreation in Nevada and her involvement in church activities.
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Mining equipment in Esmeralda County: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Stocker, Harold J., 1900-1983
Harold Stocker was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on March 8, 1900. He and his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1911. Harold Stocker operated Nevada Silica Sand Company in Overton, Nevada, from 1932 to 1940. He was elected to the Clark County Commission in 1938. In 1939, he built the Chief Hotel Court, and in 1948, the Desert Plaza Apartments. Stocker was state GOP chairman in the 1950s. Harold died January 9, 1983 in Las Vegas.
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