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Desert Sea News Bureau

Founding Date

1947

Dissolution Date

1949

advertising agency

Photograph of men building the Sands Hotel (Las Vegas), circa 1952

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Photograph of the Sands Hotel under construction (Las Vegas), circa 1952

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Photograph of a floating craps game in the Sands Hotel swimming pool (Las Vegas), 1954

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Photograph of YESCO workers installing Vegas Vic at the Pioneer Club (Las Vegas), 1951

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Grace Hayes clowning around with her "soap box" as she campaigns: photographic print

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Sands media brochures, envelopes, Sands Times magazines, Sands printing block, and story boards. Includes portrait of Congressional Committee on Interstate Commerce Investigating Grand Canyon Air Disasters hearings

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Sands Hotel time capsule: photographs

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Dance teams at the Sands Hotel: photographs

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Ballerina in the desert: photographs

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Weddings at the Sands Hotel: photographs, correspondence, and publicity records

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Wedding of Rita Hayworth and Dick Haymes: photographs

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Opening of the Sands Hotel: photographs

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Sands Hotel "Somebody Goofed" Helldorado Parade float: photographs

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Sands Hotel Helldorado Parade floats: photographs and records

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Sands Hotel "There's No Business Like Show Business" Helldorado Parade float: photographs

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Make Room for Daddy television show filmed at the Sands Hotel: photographs

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Fabulous Las Vegas photographs

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1955 atomic test in Nevada: Sands Hotel correspondence, records, and photographs

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