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"Getting One's Halls Decked": article draft by Roosevelt Fitzgerald

Date

1980 (year approximate) to 1995 (year approximate)

Description

From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Drafts for the Las Vegas Sentinel Voice file. Reflection on the author's Christmas years ago in Natchez, Mississippi.

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Slide of Anderson Brothers Dining Hall, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1931-1936

Date

1931 to 1936

Description

Interior view of the Anderson Brothers Dining Hall for the men working on the Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada.

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Postcard showing the interior of the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall (Las Vegas), after 1946

Date

1946 to 1960

Description

Bar area of the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall. Printed text on back of postcard: "The million dollar Golden Nugget Gambling Hall, Saloon and Restaurant, Las Vegas, Nevada, 'where fortune smiles,' See the old-style West in our modern world. A place of mahogany bars, crystal chandeliers, with the genuine hospitality and old-time gaity of the Barbary Coast and the Virginia City of fifty years ago. 'Plastichrome' by Colourpicture, Boston 15, Mass., U.S.A"
Site Name: Golden Nugget Las Vegas
Address: 129 East Fremont Street

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Photograph of Howard Hughes in cockpit, New York, February 15, 1946

Date

1946-02-15

Description

Description given with photo: "Non-Stop Los Angeles - New York Flight Inaugurated New York -- Howard Hughes, pilot, and Joseph Bartles (right), relief pilot, at the controls of the TWA Constellation which inaugurated non-stop Los Angeles - New York flights when the ship landed at LaGuardia Airport Feb. 15. Hughes, famous flier and TWA executive, was at the controls during the flight made in 8 hours, 38 minutes. Many Hollywood luminaries made the first flight. Credit (ACME). 2-15-46."

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Film transparency of Frazier Hall of Las Vegas High School, Las Vegas, circa 1940s

Date

1940 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

Two unidentified men standing in front of Frazier Hall, Las Vegas High School. Frazier Hall was designed in the Art Deco style and built in 1931.

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Photograph of a neon sign for the Silver Slipper Gambling Hall (Las Vegas), circa 1960

Date

1960

Description

Nighttime view of the neon sign for the Silver Slipper Gambling Hall. Hank Henry and Brandy Long, and Charlie Teagarden's Jazz Group are featured on the marquee.
Site Name: Silver Slipper
Address: 3100 Las Vegas Boulevard South

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View of New Orleans from across the Mississippi River, New Orleans, Louisiana: panoramic photographs

Date

1981-01-25

Archival Collection

Description

From the Bob Paluzzi Panoramic Photographs

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Postcard showing the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall interior (Las Vegas), after 1946

Date

1946 to 1950

Description

Photographic postcard featuring table games and the bar area of the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall. Transcribed from original: "The Million Dollar Golden Nugget Gambling Hall, Saloon and Restaurant, Las Vegas. Thousands of visitors are attracted annually by the lavishly decorated Casino with its Crystal Chandeliers, Famous Paintings and Mahogany Beams, reminiscent of the Barbary Coast days." Publishing info from original: "Plastichrome' by Colourpicture, Boston 15, Mass -- 6270 Mosley Ave., L.A."
Site Name: Golden Nugget Las Vegas
Address: 129 East Fremont Street

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Slide presentation from a hearing at City Hall: photographic slide

Date

1979-05

Description

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). The slide reads: "Comparison of the cumulative estimated dose with diagnostic x-rays 1951 to 1958.

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Unidentified persons at a hearing at a City Hall in Nevada: photographic slide

Date

1979-05

Description

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). 

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