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Ruthe Scott Photographs of Las Vegas, Nevada Hotels and Casinos
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The Ruthe Scott Photographs of Las Vegas, Nevada Hotels and Casinos contain color and black-and-white negatives and transparencies of Las Vegas hotels and casinos from 1960 to 1986. The collection includes the Sahara Hotel, Castaways Hotel and Casino, the Desert Inn Hotel, the Dunes Hotel, the Riviera Hotel, the Sands Hotel, the Silver Slipper Gambling Hall, Tally Ho Grounds, the Thunderbird Hotel, and the Hotel Flamingo. The collection also includes people gambling in Las Vegas casinos and two transparencies of Nevada politician Phil Tobin, who sponsored the bill to legalize gambling in 1931.
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Interior of Golden Nugget Gambling Hall in Las Vegas, Nevada: postcard
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Basham, Patrick, and Karen White, "Gambling with Our Future? The Costs and Benefits of Legalized Gambling" report, 2002
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Collection Name: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
Box/Folder: Box 73
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Volberg, Rachel A. A Review of Two Measures of Pathological Gambling in the United States, Journal of Gambling Studies 6(2), 1990
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Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 17
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Hess, Harrie F. Motivation for gambling as revealed in the marketing methods of legitimate gambling industry, Psychological Reports, 1969
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Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 05
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National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, "Compulsive Gambling: Crime and Drugs" report, 1995 October 28
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Collection Name: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
Box/Folder: Box 75
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Popkin, James and others. America's gambling fever: how casinos empty your wallet, U.S. News and World Report 116(14), 1994 March
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 18
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Lalli, Sergio. Nevada Casinos Enjoy Big Year as Gambling Hits New Heights, Hotel and Motel Management 203(15), 1988 October 17
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Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 06
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Friedman, Joseph, Simon Hakim and J. Weinblatt. Casino Gambling as a "growth pole" strategy and its effect on crime, Journal of Regional Science 29(4), 1989 November
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 16
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Photograph of the men at the Apache Casino, Las Vegas, circa 1930s-1940s
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