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Photograph of the Copa Girls performing in feathered skirts, Las Vegas, April 1963

Date

1963-04

Archival Collection

Description

Copa Girls performing onstage at the Sands Hotel in April of 1963. In cartouche from left to right, Charlotte Nort, Rowena Buttenweiser, Barbara. Seated from left to right, unidentified woman, unidentified woman, Marlene, Jane and Joan Ryba (the Ryba Twins), Jackie Lee, Diane Marlow (Diane Holladay), unidentified woman, Lee Temple.
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino

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Las Vegas Women Oral History Project

From the Women's Research Institute of Nevada:

"The Las Vegas Women Oral History Project (LVWOHP) evolved from a collaboration to build a collection of sources on women’s lives in Las Vegas. At the time it began (circa 1994), a critical shortage of information on women’s lives existed in traditional repositories and few oral history projects collected the narratives of women. By 2009, other efforts have taken hold to include women in southern Nevada’s history.

Corporate Body

Jerry Jackson Papers

Identifier

MS-00573

Abstract

The Jerry Jackson Papers, 1953 to 2009, contain materials related to Jackson's career in entertainment as a director, producer, choreographer, writer, lyricist, and costume designer. Jackson's work on Folies-Bergère at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada is the most extensive show represented. Materials also include documentation of Jackson's other stage, film, and television productions. The papers include general production information, correspondence, costume design drawings, wardrobe notes, choreography notes, sheet music, music scores, lyrics, budgetary information, production photographs, show outlines and rundowns, set designs, scripts and publicity materials.

Archival Collection

Costume design drawing, Spanish dance couples, Las Vegas, circa 1970s

Date

1970 to 1979

Archival Collection

Description

Costume Details: Two couples in rust and peach-colored flamenco costumes. Women are in beaded long silk dresses, men in boleros trimmed with jewels, frilled shirts and high-waisted trousers; one woman has fox fur trim on her dress and is wearing a tiara-type headpiece, all the others are wearing felt hats. Notations on back of sketch: "Danseurs Espagnols. Opening: Femme - Robe en faille recouverte en strass, chapeau et boucles d'orielles. Homme - Pantalon et gilets alpaga marron, chemise avec jabot dentelle. Reuers veste et garniture en strass - chapeau feutre. Finale: Robe en satin brodee de strass - Renard beige - boucles - peignes - bracelets - et boules pendantes en strass. Boy: Pantalon en alpaga - gilet satin - garnitures en strass - chapeau beige feutre."
Show Name: Casino de Paris
Performance Name: Finale
Site Name: Dunes (hotel and casino)

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