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Crockett Family Photographs

Identifier

PH-00431

Abstract

The Crockett Family Photographs (approximately 1940-2008) are comprised of aerial photographs of Alamo Airport (later Harry Reid International Airport) and the surrounding Las Vegas Valley in the 1940s and 1950s. Photographs of the interior, exterior, and airfield at Alamo Airport document the early stages of what is now one of the busiest international airports in the United States. The collection also contains audiovisual material, which depict events including the Miss Rodeo America pageant and the Sahara Cup boat races on Lake Mead, and locations including Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada and Hoover Dam. A significant portion of the collection consists of photographs of the Crockett family at various events, on family vacations, and their home in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Archival Collection

Photographic slide of Las Vegas cityscape, circa 1950s-1970s

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1979 (year approximate)

Description

Written on the slide: "Looking east. Vegas Range. Las Vegas, Clark Co. Nevada."

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Boyd Gaming/Stardust Resort makes donation to Oklahoma City bombing victims: video, 2000 December 31 to 2001 January 01

Level of Description

File

Scope and Contents

Aerial footage from local Las Vegas, Nevada news stations of New Years Eve fireworks going off along Las Vegas Boulevard. Various songs play over the video footage; for other videos you can hear crowds cheering, fireworks erupting, and music playing in the distance. The Stardust Hotel is featured in most of the videos. Final segment is an actual newsbroadcast segment that also shows Times Square in New York City. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486.

Archival Collection

Stardust Resort and Casino Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00515
Collection Name: Stardust Resort and Casino Records
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Box 031

Archival Component

Photograph of Lake Mead, Hoover Dam, circa 1940-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

Color image showing an aerial view of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

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Photograph of interior of an Army Air Forces airplance, circa 1940s-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

The interior of a plane that was being used by the Army Air Forces to take aerial photographs. The photo has the identification F-23471 A. C. in the bottom right corner.

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Newspaper clipping, Water level decline shown, Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 15, 1945

Date

1945-03-15

Archival Collection

Description

Newspaper article summarizing a 1945 U.S. Geological Survey report of a sharp water level decline in the Las Vegas artesian basin.

Text

Alan Bible Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00386

Abstract

The Alan Bible Photograph Collection contains color photographic prints of the Hoover Dam; an aerial of the Colorado River; an Atomic Energy Commission drill rig in Central Nevada; and views of a Nuclear Rocket Development Station (NRDS) facility at the Nevada Test Site between approximately 1970 to 1974. These photographs are captioned and were originally framed and hung in Alan Bible's United States Senate office.

Archival Collection

Photograph of town and mine, Goodsprings (Nev.), circa 1917

Date

1916 to 1918

Description

Aerial view of Yellow Pine Mine in Goodsprings, Nevada.

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Postcard of the Grand Canyon, circa mid 1930s to 1950s

Date

1935 to 1959

Description

An aerial view of the Grand Canyon in artistic rendering.

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