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Film transparency of women in front of a high school dormitory, Las Vegas, 1912-1913
Date
1912 to 1913
Description
Black and white image of several young women, including Mary Syphus, Florence Bishop, Martha Kramer, Helen Bunker, Wanda Ball, and Olive Lake, standing in the front yard of a dorm where most of them lived while attending high school in Las Vegas.
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Photograph of Ada Lake's Sunday school class, Las Vegas, circa 1917
Date
1917
Description
Black and white image of Ada Lake's Sunday school class at her Methodist Church on 3rd and Bridger Streets in Las Vegas. Standing (left to right): unidentified, unidentified, Edith Fell, unidentified, unidentified, Byrd Rhodes, Fontella Feetham, Ada Lake, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Jack (Lucille) Rhoades, Emily Lake, Margaret Moffat, unidentified. Seated (left to right): unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Dora Boyd, Louise Crowe, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified.
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Photograph of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, Las Vegas, February 27, 1940
Date
1940-02-27
Description
A black and white image from a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Las Vegas. This group of men and women are standing in front of an unidentified building with signs advertising its dining room and the Apache Beauty Salon. This photo was taken from a time capsule in the cornerstone of the Union Pacific Railroad station located in Las Vegas. The time capsule was placed there in 1940 and was later retrieved when the building was demolished around 1970.
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Photograph of Helen Slattery and Dutch Goerman, Las Vegas, 1940
Date
1940
Description
A black and white image of Helen Slattery, Chicago General Traffic employee for United Airlines, sitting with Dutch Goerman, Secretary of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, in a vehicle from 1904 with the sign "Desert Love Buggy." This photo was taken from a time capsule in the cornerstone of the Union Pacific Railroad station located in Las Vegas. The time capsule was placed there in 1940 and was later retrieved when the building was demolished around 1970.
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Photograph of Louis C. Pico, Antonia Eva Pico, and Louis, Jr., Las Vegas, February 7, 1938
Date
1938-02-07
Description
A black and white image of Louis C. Pico (seated), Antonia Eva Pico, Louis C. Pico Jr., and their dog in Las Vegas. The family is an example of "a satisfied water user." This photo was taken from a time capsule in the cornerstone of the Union Pacific Railroad station located in Las Vegas. The time capsule was placed there in 1940 and was later retrieved when the building was demolished around 1970.
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Photograph of Jack Entratter with celebrities in the Copa Room at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, December 1964
Date
1964-12
Description
An image of celebrities seated in the Copa Room showroom at the Sands Hotel. Jack Entratter is standing behind table at the left. Seated: L-R: Nancy Sinatra (wife of Frank Sinatra); actor Yul Brynner and his wife Doris Kleiner; actor Edward G. Robinson. At right, seated, entertainer Tommy Sands and his wife Nancy, née Sinatra (Frank and Nancy Sr.'s daughter).
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Photograph of Lena Horne, Mitch Miller and others at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, circa 1963
Date
1963
Description
An image of Lena Horne (center) seated next to band leader Mitch Miller during a recording of the CBS radio show "Password All-Stars" (probably on January 27, 1963). Donald O'Connor (left, in tweed jacket) sits next to Allen Ludden (with glasses), the host of the TV show, "Password." Two other unidentified men are at the table.
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Photograph of singer Peggy Lee, taken during one of her performances, 1967
Date
1967
Description
A photograph of singer Peggy Lee, taken during one of her performances. The location where the photograph was taken is unknown. Peggy Lee (born Norma Deloris Egstrom; May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer and actress, in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and performer. She wrote music for films, acted, and created conceptual record albums—encompassing poetry, jazz, chamber pop, and art songs.
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Photograph of the Wildwood Show at the Manor House, New Jersey, 1964
Date
1964
Description
Four topless female dancers in beaded bikini costumes with partial long skirts, arm bands and bracelets, with tall feathered headdresses, and five female dancers in beaded bikini costumes with sheer beaded long skirted dresses, sheer face veils, and small tiara headdresses surround a male and female pair of dancers at the center of the stage. The male dancer is wearing beaded tights, gloves, beaded ankle cuffs, and hat. The female dancer is topless, and wearing a beaded fringe-style skirt, beaded ankle cuffs, arm band, bracelet, and beaded tiara. The audience is seated on either side of a runway. A cutout of the Buddhist Deity Amoghapasha (Six Arms) is visible in the background.
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Photograph of women on porch steps, Goodsprings (Nev.), early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1925
Description
Group photo of women family and friends. Written on the back of the photograph, "back sitting left to right: Mrs. G. Homer Black, Miss Madge Henderson (niece of Jean Fayle), Mrs. G.A. Jean Fayle (baby?), unknown, unknown. Standing left to right: unknown, Mrs. Frank G. Florence Doherty (Goodsprings Gazette), unknown, unknown, Mrs. Lawrence J. Tusnet, Mrs. Roy W. Moore, unknown, unknown, Mrs. Harvey Hardy, Mrs. Jack Frederickson, Mrs. Janee Ashbough."
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