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Chabad of Southwest

Chabad of Southwest is in the center of the southwest part of the Las Vegas Valley. It offers weekly prayer services, holiday’s programs, women’s only gathering, as well as adult and child education classes. Rabbi Levi and Mrs. Chayala Wilhem are directors of this center and are constantly thinking of ways to expand Jewish activities into the Southwest Las Vegas Valley.

 

People in the American Southwest photographs, 1939 to 1980

Level of Description

Series

Scope and Contents

The people in the American Southwest photographs series depict people in locations throughout the American Southwest from 1939 to 1980. The locations include a town in Nevada; Berkeley, Van Nuys, and Escondido, California; and the Davis Dam in Arizona.

Archival Collection

Elton and Madelaine Garrett Photograph and Architectural Drawing Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00265
Collection Name: Elton and Madelaine Garrett Photograph and Architectural Drawing Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Southwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and West Sahara Avenue, looking southwest, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-10-06

Description

Items left on the southwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and West Sahara Avenue as a memorial for the victims of the 1 October shooting remain under a large billboard.

Image

Photograph of a mine in the southwest, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1930

Description

An unidentified mine in the southwest, possibly Nevada or Arizona.

Image

Pacific Southwest Development

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Las Vegas Real Estate Brochures Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00574
Collection Name: Las Vegas Real Estate Brochures Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Southwest regional subject files, 1993-2012

Level of Description

Sub-Series

Scope and Contents

The Southwest regional subject files include materials about Native American communities and gaming in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, dating from approximately 1993 to 2011. The materials include socioeconomic reports, tribal-state gaming compacts, journal articles, correspondence, Dr. Spilde’s research photographs, annual reports, brochures, booklets, Native American newspapers, conference materials, periodicals, promotional materials, and newspaper articles. The Southwest series focuses primarily on gaming, sociocultural, and economic topics in Arizona and New Mexico. Materials also document the gaming enterprises and community life of various Native American nations.

Archival Collection

Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
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Collection Number: MS-00092
Collection Name: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Postcard of Spanish bayonets in the southwest, circa 1930s to 1950s

Date

1930 to 1959

Description

Spanish bayonet in bloom in the southwest desert.

Image

Scenic Southwest, 1950-1955

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Scenic Southwest Travel Guide
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Collection Number: MS-00709
Collection Name: Scenic Southwest Travel Guide
Box/Folder: Box 1

Archival Component

Southwest Organizing Project, 1989

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Citizen Alert Records
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Collection Number: MS-00415
Collection Name: Citizen Alert Records
Box/Folder: Box 04

Archival Component