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Photograph of Virginia Page, Miss Las Vegas, Sands Hotel, June 2, 1957

Date
1957-06-02
Description
Nineteen year old Virginia Page from Brighton, England, winner of Meet Me In Las Vegas contest. Page, as Miss Las Vegas, won a trip to Las Vegas for a week starting June 2, 1957. Ms. Page is pictured here at the Sands Hotel speaking to reporter Chuck Van Goerbun during a rehearsal.

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Photograph of Virginia Page, Miss Las Vegas, Sands Hotel, June 2, 1957

Date
1957-06-02
Description
Nineteen year old Virginia Page from Brighton, England, winner of Meet Me In Las Vegas contest. Page, as Miss Las Vegas, won a trip to Las Vegas for a week starting June 2, 1957. Ms. Page is pictured here at the Sands Casino, center, speaking to reporter Chuck Van Goerbun.

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Photograph of the Von Tobel family, Las Vegas, circa 1906

Date
1904 to 1907
Description
The family of Ed Von Tobel, Sr. are present at the ceremony by the City of Las Vegas honoring Ed Von Tobel Sr., and Jake Beckley. The City of Las Vegas Diamond Jubilee (1905-1980) Historic Marker was placed at the site where Von Tobel and Beckley established their lumber yard in 1906. Standing left to right are George Von Tobel, Ed Von Tobel Jr., Ed's wife Mary, Elizabeth Von Tobel Zahn (married name), and Jake Von Tobel.

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Photograph of Social Directors of the City and Resort Hotels of the West meeting, Los Angeles (Calif.), 1936

Date
1936
Description
Well-dressed women stand together under an awning for a group photo. Dorothy is in the fourth row from the front, wearing a black hat. All of the women are wearing a pin on their blouses, (their left side). Inscription with photo reads: "The Social Directors of the City and Resort Hotels of the West. A hotel club group who stimulated business for all making reservations from place to place for them, as well as doing social work for guests in resorts, etc. Mrs. Coffman (Palm Springs), Mrs. Curry (Yosemite), Mrs. Hull (all Hull chain incl. El Rancho Vegas were members)." See Image 0131 0282 for another image from the event.

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Photograph of people at a banquet, circa 1915-1920

Date
1915 to 1920
Description
A group of people sitting and standing around a long table with place settings. Handwritten on back of photograph: Standing by wall: R.E. Rockwell; (?); Bonnie Botts; Harry Jameson; (?); H. Case; Mrs. Arnold Scott; Shorty DeBrink; (?); Bill Hall; (?). Seated left side of table: Mun Levitt; Lolla Adams; Bill Johnson; Mrs. Mun Leavitt; Lauren Shaw; Mrs. Wm. Hall; Irene DeBrink; (?); Scotty Brewner; (?); Walt Bond. Right side of table: Mrs. Dick Leavitt; Mother Rockwell; Archie Mellott; Mrs. Walt Bond; Lt. Rockwell; Jim Downs; Dick Levitt. Small table: Bessie Rockwell; Lynn Botts; Mrs. H. Case. A "Welcome" banner is on the wall in the background.

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Costume design drawing, topless dancer in top hat and feathers, Las Vegas, June 5, 1980

Date
1980-06-05
Description
Pete Menefee design. Transcribed from original drawing index: "2 nudes from e or f."
Costume Details: Female topless dancer in black and white striped top hat trimmed with yellow and orange feathers, jeweled bikini bottom, open jeweled vest, and long feathered cuffs.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Minstrel
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino

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Photograph of the bar area of the Boulder Club (Las Vegas), 1953

Date
1953-08
Description

The long bar on the west side of the Boulder Club, later part of Binion's Horseshoe. Behind the bar is Ben Turner, bar manager, and bartender Chet Blue. Transcribed from original: "About August, 1953, The long bar on the west side of the old Boulder Club on Fremont St. now a part of the Horseshoe." Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Behind the bar, left to right: Ben Turner, bar manager; unidentified bartender; bartender, Chet Blue."
Site Name: Boulder Club
Address: 118 East Fremont Street

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Film transparency of rowboats on Lake Mead, August 1, 1947

Date
1947-08-01
Description
Black and white image with the following printed description detailing the list of boat passengers in the picture: Jay Porter, Boulder City, in his Express Cruiser escorts the Nevills Expedition into Pierce Perry, Arizona, at the headwaters of Lake Mead. Left to right in the "Joan" are: Mrs. Otis Marston, Berkeley, Calif., Joe Desloge, Jr., St. Louis, Missouri, at the oars, and Dr. Otis Marston, Berkeley, Calif.; in the "Sandra" are: Anne Desloge, St. Louis, Missouri, Garth Marston, Berkeley, Calif., at the oars and Zoe Desloge, St. Louis, Missouri; in the "Mexican Hat" are: Joe Desloge, St. Louis, Missouri, Kent Frost, boatman, and Marie Salnsfrank, St. Louis, Missouri; in the "Wen" are: Randall Henderson, Editor of Desert Magazine, El Centro, Calif., Norman Nevills at the oars and A. Milotte Wait, Disney Productions, Burbank, Calif.

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Photograph of Western Shoshone women, Goldfield (Nev.), early 1900s

Date
Unknown year in the decade of the 1900s
Description
Photograph of Western Shoshone women, Goldfield (Nev.), early 1900s

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Photograph of a woman and child in Eldorado Canyon (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date
1900 to 1925
Description
Caption: El Dorado Canyon (Mills N. Waterhouse, left, and [probably] Grandma S. M. Mills.)

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