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

Date
1970 to 1979
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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Clifford Jones Family Papers

Identifier
MS-00596
Abstract

The Clifford Jones Family Papers (1900-2005) consist of awards for community service, newspaper clippings, correspondence sent to family members by Cliff Jones when he was in the military, and photograph albums of the Jones family. Clifford Jones was the 20th Lieutenant Governor for Nevada from 1947 to 1954.

Archival Collection

Frank Suda oral history interview

Identifier
OH-01894
Abstract

Oral history interview with Frank Suda conducted by Eileen Green on March 03, 1976 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Suda describes life in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1942, where he was sent for military training during World War II. He discusses the history of the Las Vegas Flexible Gunnery School which was located in what became Indian Springs, Nevada, and the establishment of Nellis Air Force Base. He talks about recreational activities in Las Vegas, including listing different entertainers and casinos that were present at the time.

Archival Collection

Bobbie and Cody Lin Jones oral history interview

Identifier
OH-03365
Abstract

Oral history interview with Bobbie and Cody Lin Jones conducted by Claytee D. White on December 9, 2017 for the Remembering 1 October Oral History Project. In this interview, Bobbie and Cody Lin Jones, mother and daughter, discuss their love for country music and their experience going to the Route 91 Harvest music festival in 2017. Bobbie describes how her military training helped her and her daughter survive the shooting of that weekend, and both discuss what they had seen during the shooting. Bobbie and Cody Lin talk about adjusting to life after the event and the little things that have changed in their day-to-day living.

Archival Collection

Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego

Latitude/Longitude
32.74087, -117.19692
Feature
military installation

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Childers, Sonny

"[Sonny] Childers flew for two of his 12 years in the military with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds."

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Photograph of Captain Mike Schoenfeld and Major Charlie Harr at an open house at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, October 3, 1980

Date
1980-10-03
Description
Left to right: Capt. Michael Schoenfeld and Major Charlie Harr, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Site Name: Nellis Air Force Base (Nev.)

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Aerial photograph of the Army's Golden Knights performing above Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 25, 1983

Date
1983-03-25
Description
Two of the U.S. Army's Golden Knights parachute team performing in the air above Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Site Name: Nellis Air Force Base (Nev.)

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Photograph of Bob Fleer, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, circa 1982

Date
1982
Description
U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot Bob Fleer, Logistics, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

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