Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 1481 - 1490 of 2343

Interview with Raymond Chester Harbert, February 18, 2005

Date
2005-02-18
Description
Narrator affiliation: Resident Engineer, Holmes and Narver; Program Manager, Plowshare

Text

Newspaper clipping, Campaign started to complete signatures for Water District, Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 19, 1948

Date
1948-05-19
Description

Story about a campaign to collect enough signatures to call an election for a vote on the creation of a water district for the Las Vegas valley.

Text

Letter from F. M. Grace to J. Ross Clark, July 21, 1905

Date
1905-07-21
Description
Letter concerns horse-drawn freight teams moving away from Las Vegas to roads that provide better water and feed. Suggest railroad company build wells closer to Las Vegas.

Text

Photograph of Howard Hughes with Senator Harry P. Cain, Culver City, California, August 16, 1947

Date
1947-08-16
Description
Description given with photo: "Howard Hughes Is Asked About His XF-11 By Senator! Culver City, Calif. - Millionaire plane builder Howard Hughes, left, is asked about his controversial XF-11 photo reconnaissance plane, background, by Senator Harry Cain, right, Republican of Washington. Cain is member of the Senate War Investigating Committee, and inspected Hughes craft after the plane builder had test flown the ship. An earlier model of same design nearly cost Hughes his life when it crashed in Beverly Hill last winter. Note wind-blown hair on both Pilot Hughes and observer Cain. Photo by Felix Pagel. 8/16/47."

Image

Bowman, Steve Eligie labor union materials: employment, 1932 to 1951

Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Dennis McBride Personal Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01099
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Personal Papers
Box/Folder: Box 27 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Van Buuren, Christiaan

Christiaan Van Buuren grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. He started working as a dealer in casinos at a property that was run by Caesars World. Chris then went to work for Gold Reef Casino Resorts as a development manager to develop casinos in South Africa. Next he worked in casinos on cruise ships as a dealer and as an assistant casino manager for Casinos Austria International and also set up casinos for them in South Africa.

Person

Audio recording clip from interview with Sonny Thomas by Barbara Tabach, February 28, 2013

Date
2013-02-28
Description

Part of an inverview with Sonny Thomas conducted by Barbara Tabach, February 28, 2013. Thomas describes job options when he arrived in Las Vegas in 1959.

Sound