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Film transparency of the Hotel National, Las Vegas, circa 1920s to early 1940s
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Photograph album, Henry Wieking Collection, circa late 1920s-early 1930s
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Denton, Hazel Baker, 1887-1962
Hazel Baker Denton (1887-1962) was a prolific writer, educator, active community member, and elected to serve the Nevada State Assembly in the early 1950s.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles), regarding cultivation of land from water of new well and springs to protect our water filings, November 15, 1924
Discussion of ways to put more land under cultivation to protect their water filings.
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The Wheel of Rotary Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, November 23, 1949
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Transcript of interview with Emma Ellsworth by Clark Ellsworth, March 5, 1980
On March 5, 1980, Clark Ellsworth interviewed his grandmother, Emma Ellsworth (born 1902 in Payson, Utah) about her experiences in Southern Nevada. Ellsworth first talks about growing up in Utah and getting married before moving to Pioche, Nevada during the Great Depression. She also talks about bringing up a family in Las Vegas as well as her and her husband’s work in running Beneficial Life, a life insurance business, in Las Vegas. Ellsworth also talks about the Mormon churches in Las Vegas, the schools her children attended, and the number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren she had at the time.
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Harrah’s Entertainment Corporate Archives
The Harrah’s Entertainment Corporate Archives (dating from 1811 to 2004 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1940 to 2000) contain the promotional and corporate files of Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. and its predecessors, as well as Bill Harrah’s personal papers and card game collection. The materials were compiled and developed as a corporate archive by Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.’s Corporate Communications Department. The collection is primarily comprised of casino and employee periodicals, reports, manuals, promotional files, ephemera, and newspaper articles that document Bill Harrah’s casinos in Reno, Nevada and Lake Tahoe as well as Harrah’s Inc., Holiday Inns, Inc., Holiday Corporation, the Promus Companies, and Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Also included are photographs that document the construction of Harrah’s properties, business operations, the people who worked and performed at Harrah’s properties, and Bill Harrah’s automobile collection. The collection also contains Bill Harrah’s collection of playing cards and card games. Also included are photographs of the Harrah family.
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Map showing proposed new 12" well and pipe line changes at Water Springs, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1920
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Tonopah's Championship Basketball Team: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Credit: Franks Photos. Back row, standing, from left, Coach Snyder, John Casselli, McGuire, Jimmy Burns, Paul Richards, and Manager Bernard Fuetsch. Second row, Bill Dumble, John Starr, and Ed Slavin. Sitting in front, Chester Geyer and George Brown. While playing its Last game in Ely that season the team received a telegram from home staying, "Beat Ely and Chicago next." About $2,500 was raised in a few hours in Tonopah to send the team to participate in a tournament in Chicago. The Tonopah lads, however, did not fare well in Chicago against older and bigger competitions.
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