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Photograph of Thanksgiving banquet at the Holland Hotel, Pioneer (Nev.),November 24, 1911
Date
1911-11-24
Description
Thanksgiving banquet at the Holland Hotel, Pioneer, Nevada, November 24, 1911
Caption: Handwritten in bottom margin of photograph:"Mrs. O'Brien at head of table. C W Thomas 2nd on right." Caption handwritten below photograph: "Thanksgiving banquet, Pioneer Hotel,Pioneer, Nevada, November 1911." The hotel was the Holland Hotel, in Pioneer, Nevada. It was managed by Mr. & Mrs. J. D. O'Brien at the time. Charles W. Thomas became the postmaster of Pioneer, Nevada in October 1911.
Site Name: Holland Hotel (Pioneer, Nev.)
Caption: Handwritten in bottom margin of photograph:"Mrs. O'Brien at head of table. C W Thomas 2nd on right." Caption handwritten below photograph: "Thanksgiving banquet, Pioneer Hotel,Pioneer, Nevada, November 1911." The hotel was the Holland Hotel, in Pioneer, Nevada. It was managed by Mr. & Mrs. J. D. O'Brien at the time. Charles W. Thomas became the postmaster of Pioneer, Nevada in October 1911.
Site Name: Holland Hotel (Pioneer, Nev.)
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Photograph of people at the pavilion during Clark's Las Vegas townsite sale, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1905
Date
1905
Description
An auction held May 15-16, 1905 to sell lots within Clark's Las Vegas Townsite. A group of men and women stand on and around a covered wooden platform outdoors. The auctioneer stands to the left of center at the front of the platform. The decision to auction lots within Clark's Las Vegas Townsite was not made until May 10, 1905. Auctioneer C.O. Whittemore was the president of the Las Vegas Land and Water Company.
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Photograph of Mayor Oran K. Gragson and Sammy Davis, Jr. cutting the ribbon for the Las Vegas Pageant of Progress, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1960s-1970s
Date
1960 to 1979
Description
Several people, including two Pageant contestants, look on as Las Vegas Mayor Oran K. Gragson (left) assists Sammy Davis, Jr. (center) in cutting the ribbon for the Las Vegas Pageant of Progress. Oran Kenneth Gragson (February 14, 1911 – October 7, 2002) was an American businessman and politician. He was the longest-serving mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, from 1959 to 1975. Gragson, a member of the Republican Party, was a small business owner who was elected Mayor on a reform platform against police corruption and for equal opportunity for people of all socio-economic and racial categories. Gragson died in a Las Vegas hospice on October 7, 2002, at the age of 91. The Oran K. Gragson Elementary School located at 555 N. Honolulu Street, Las Vegas, NV 89110 was named in his honor. Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American Jewish entertainer. Primarily a dancer and singer, he was also an actor of stage and screen, musician, and impressionist, noted for his impersonations of actors, musicians and other celebrities. Davis was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for his television performances. He was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1987, and in 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Slide of Lilly Fong, circa 1980
Date
1979 to 1982
Description
Lilly Fong, University Regent, University of Nevada System.
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Photograph of Lilly Fong, 1974
Date
1974
Description
Lilly Fong, member of the University of Nevada Board of Regents, and Las Vegas, Nevada civic leader and philantrhopist.
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Photograph of Lilly Fong, circa late 1960s-1980s
Date
1967 to 1989
Description
Lilly Fong, member of the University of Nevada Board of Regents, and Las Vegas, Nevada civic leader and philanthropist.
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Photograph of Wing Fong, Lilly Fong, and Hau Pei-Jen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1982
Date
1982
Description
L to R: Hau Pei-Jen, Wing Fong and Lilly Fong. Pei-Jen is an internationally known artist, six of his paintings hang in Artemus Ham Hall. They were purchased (under terms of a grant) from the Fongs.
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Photograph of Spencer Tracy and Laraine Day, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Description
Actors Spencer Tracy and Laraine Day pictured at an unknown special event.
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Photograph of Nevada Southern University commencement, Las Vegas, May 09, 1973
Date
1973-05-09
Description
Description provided with image: "Mrs. Paul McDermott, James Gibson, Mary Woitishek display Distinguished Nevadan awards."
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Photograph of Hal and Candy March, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Description
Actor Hal March pictured with his wife, actress Candy (Toxton) March and another unidentified woman.
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