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New Years Eve firework celebrations in Las Vegas: video
Date
2000-12-31 to 2001-01-01
Archival Collection
Description
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. From the Stardust Resort and Casino Records (MS-00515) -- Photographs and audiovisual material -- Digitized audiovisual material file.
Moving Image
New Year's dinner 1927, Dresden Hotel
Date
1905-04-10
Archival Collection
Description
Note: Hotel logo on cover. "Price $1.25." Back of menu has cartoon of a chef with a knife, carrying a large bird on a platter Restaurant: Dresden Hotel
Text
New Year's menu, 1979, Hotel Sahara
Date
1978-12-31
Archival Collection
Description
Note: Portrait drawing of Don Rickles on menu cover Restaurant: Hotel Sahara Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Text
Postcard of New Yellow Jacket shaft, Gold Hill, Nevada, 1891
Date
1891
Archival Collection
Description
Description provided with the postcard: "New Yellow Jacket Shaft (Gold Hill); depth 3000 feet - Photo 1891."
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Map of parts of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, atlas sheet no. 70(A), 1877
Date
1877-05-07
Description
37 x 50 cm. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Issued May 7th, 1877. 2nd ed., June 30th, 1881." "Atlas sheet no. 77(B)." "Expeditions of 1871 & 1786 under the command of 1st. Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army." "Weyss, Herman & Lang, del." Probably originally published as part of the geological atlas which is an appendix to the Surveys' Report upon United States geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian. Geological map. "Prof. John J. Stevenson, geological assistant." Original publisher: U.S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Scale: 1 inch to 4 miles or 1: 253440.
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes at the New York World's Fair, 1939-1940
Date
1939 to 1940
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes (center) riding on back of car in a parade marking the New York World's Fair, 1939-1940.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, July 14, 1938
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
Description
The up close view of Howard Hughes being escorted through a crowd of people at Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Escorted through crowd- 7/14/38 (Daily News)"
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