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Risk Analysis of Gambling: Study of the Nature and Extent of Gambling in the Netherlands, 1993 October

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

William R. Eadington Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00646
Collection Name: William R. Eadington Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01

Archival Component

Shelly Roberts tours Stardust Gambling Museum: video

Date

1987-08-03

Description

Local news segment on the Stardust's "olde-tyme gambling museum" which houses a $3 million dollar collection put together by Boyd Gaming. Shelly Roberts tours Channel 3 reporter through the museum, with early gaming machines including a triple machine (to avoid licensing fees). A room set up like a saloon, old arcade games, a vertical roulette wheel, and photographs of early Las Vegas line the walls. The fourth segment is a repeated segment from earlier. Original media VHS, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486. From the Stardust Resort and Casino Records (MS-00515) -- Photographs and audiovisual material -- Digitized audiovisual material file.

Moving Image

National Council on Problem Gambling, "Problem and Pathological Gambling in America: The National Picture" report, 1997 January

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Gary W. Royer Collection on Gaming
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Collection Number: MS-00658
Collection Name: Gary W. Royer Collection on Gaming
Box/Folder: Box 140

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Photograph of women gambling, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1934-1950

Date

1934 to 1950

Description

Women sit at a table gambling during the Helldorado Days festival.

Image

Sahara Hotel roulette gaming guide: postcard

Date

1952 (year approximate) to 2000 (year approximate)

Description

Roulette Gaming Guide - advertising the Hotel Sahara - Las Vegas.

Image

Postcard of gun fight gambling scene, 1954

Date

1954

Description

A postcard illustrating a gambling scene where someone is cheating. The caption reads, "When a pair of sixes beats aces: Surprised in the act of padding his hand with aces fed to him by the town roust-about, the crooked gambler looks into the muzzles of a pair of six guns". The depiction is from an original oil painting by Ernest Reedstrom.

Image

Decree forbidding gambling games in Spain's American Colonies (Reinos de las Indias) from King of Spain Ferdinand VI, 1747 April 26

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Item

Archival Collection

UNLV Libraries Collection of Spanish Broadsides
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Collection Number: MS-01096
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Spanish Broadsides
Box/Folder: Oversized Box SH-081 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Basham, Patrick, and Karen White, "Gambling with Our Future? The Costs and Benefits of Legalized Gambling" report, 2002

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
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Collection Number: MS-00092
Collection Name: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
Box/Folder: Box 73

Archival Component

National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, "Compulsive Gambling: Crime and Drugs" report, 1995 October 28

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File

Archival Collection

Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
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Collection Number: MS-00092
Collection Name: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
Box/Folder: Box 75

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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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File

Archival Collection

UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
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Collection Number: MS-00626
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 05

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