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Photograph of Howard Hughes, standing by the XF-11, April 3, 1947
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of new machine shop for Research, Product and Metallurgical engineering departments, circa 1924
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Archival Collection
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Postcard of Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1940
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of pickers at work harvesting celery plants on the Iki Ranch near Logandale, Nevada, June 4, 1947
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Archival Collection
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Men harvesting celery on the Iki ranch near Logandale, Nevada.
Transcribed Notes: Bureau of Reclamation typed notes appended to back of photo: Boulder Canyon Project, Nevada Region 3 "Pickers" at work harvesting celery plants on the IKI Ranch near Logandale, Nevada. Raising celery plants is a relatively new type of irrigated specialty farming in southern Nevada. Water from the Muddy River is used to irrigate the fields. Twenty million celery plants were harvested from the 60 acres planted this season. The plants were shipped to the neighboring western states.
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Panoramic view of residential home at 359 Desert Inn Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, summer 1994
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Archival Collection
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Location photos taken by Maggie Mancuso for production of the 1995 motion picture "Casino." Seven photographs taped together to create panoramic view of residential home at 359 Desert Inn Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, summer 1994. The Mid-Century Modern home is in the Paradise Palms District in Las Vegas, developed in the early 1960s by the Molasky Group and built by Palmer and Krisel, architects.
Site Name: Paradise Palms (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Address: 359 Desert Inn Road, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Panoramic view of residential home at 1414 Maria Elena Dr., Las Vegas, Nevada, September 30, 1994
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Archival Collection
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Location photos taken by Maggie Mancuso for production of the 1995 motion picture "Casino." Six photographs taped together to create panoramic view of residential home at 1414 Maria Elena Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada, summer 1994. The Mid-Century Modern home is in the Paradise Palms District in Las Vegas, developed in the early 1960s by the Molasky Group and built by Palmer and Krisel, architects.
Site Name: Paradise Palms (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Address: 1414 Maria Elena Dr.
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Panoramic view of street taken from front of 1414 Maria Elena Dr., Las Vegas, Nevada, September 30, 1994
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Archival Collection
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Location photos taken by Maggie Mancuso for production of the 1995 motion picture "Casino." Five photographs taped together to create panoramic view of the street from the front of residential home at 1414 Maria Elena Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada, summer 1994. The Mid-Century Modern home is in the Paradise Palms District in Las Vegas, developed in the early 1960s by the Molasky Group and built by Palmer and Krisel, architects.
Site Name: Paradise Palms (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Address: 1414 Maria Elena Dr.
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Postcard showing the interior of the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall (Las Vegas), after 1946
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Archival Collection
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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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Biographical essay by Shirley Weiss, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Shirley Weiss describes her childhood housed in army barracks in the ghetto in Beregszasz (Berehove), Hungary. She was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and several other camps, and eventually liberated from Terez?n in 1945. She came to the United States via Sweden.
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Transcript of interview with Geoconda Arguello Kline by Claytee D. White, September 18, 2014
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Archival Collection
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