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Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00331

Abstract

The Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Photograph Collection contains black-and-white and color photographic prints, negatives, postcards, and slides of William "Bill" Harrah at events in Nevada between approximately 1930 and 1991. Also included are views of Harrah’s Nevada properties including Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Hotel and Casino, Harrah’s Reno Hotel and Casino, and the Holiday Inn Hotel and Casino (that later became Harrah’s Las Vegas Hotel and Casino).

Archival Collection

Harrah’s Entertainment Corporate Archives

Identifier

MS-00460

Abstract

The Harrah’s Entertainment Corporate Archives (dating from 1811 to 2004 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1940 to 2000) contain the promotional and corporate files of Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. and its predecessors, as well as Bill Harrah’s personal papers and card game collection. The materials were compiled and developed as a corporate archive by Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.’s Corporate Communications Department. The collection is primarily comprised of casino and employee periodicals, reports, manuals, promotional files, ephemera, and newspaper articles that document Bill Harrah’s casinos in Reno, Nevada and Lake Tahoe as well as Harrah’s Inc., Holiday Inns, Inc., Holiday Corporation, the Promus Companies, and Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Also included are photographs that document the construction of Harrah’s properties, business operations, the people who worked and performed at Harrah’s properties, and Bill Harrah’s automobile collection. The collection also contains Bill Harrah’s collection of playing cards and card games. Also included are photographs of the Harrah family.

Archival Collection

Bill Harrah, Harrah's Hotel and Casino founder, image 004: photographic print

Date

1959

Description

Bill Harrah with his father, John Harrah, outside Harrah's Bingo Club, Reno, Nevada.

Image

Bill Harrah, Harrah's Hotel and Casino founder, image 010: photographic print

Date

1959

Description

William Harrah (left) and his father John Harrah outside Harrah's Bingo Club in Reno.

Image

Bill Harrah, Harrah's Hotel and Casino founder, image 015: photographic print

Date

1970 (year approximate) to 1979 (year approximate)

Description

From left to right: Kenny Rogers, Verna Harrah, Bill Harrah, and Steve Martin photographed at the Last Entertainer Dinner at Villa Harrah.

Image

Bill Harrah, Harrah's Hotel and Casino founder, image 020: photographic print

Date

1930 (year approximate) to 1980 (year approximate)

Description

Color portrait of Bill Harrah.

Image

Bill Harrah, Harrah's Hotel and Casino founder, image 013: photographic print

Date

1970 (year approximate) to 1979 (year approximate)

Description

Bill Harrah (left) and Lloyd Dyer (his successor).

Image

Bill Harrah, Harrah's Hotel and Casino founder, image 009: photographic print

Date

1970 (year approximate) to 1979 (year approximate)

Description

William Harrah, Chairman of the Board.

Image

Bill Harrah, Harrah's Hotel and Casino founder, image 003: photographic print

Date

1938

Description

Original staff in the Tango Parlor, 1938. Bill Harrah is the tall man in the dark glasses at Harrah's in Reno, Nevada.

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