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Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 5 includes materials relating to the Nugget's performing elephants. Beginning in 1961, a deal was made to buy Bertha the elephant from a circus museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin for $8,000. Bertha arrived in Sparks the following year in 1962, just in time for the opening of the Nugget's Circus Room. Although the Circus Room featured many top performers including Jimmy Durante, Red Skelton, Dinah Shore, and Liberace, Bertha became a staple of entertainment at the Nugget and the de facto mascot...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 5 includes materials relating to the Nugget's performing elephants. Beginning in 1961, a deal was made to buy Bertha the elephant from a circus museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin for $8,000. Bertha arrived in Sparks the following year in 1962, just in time for the opening of the Nugget's Circus Room. Although the Circus Room featured many top performers including Jimmy Durante, Red Skelton, Dinah Shore, and Liberace, Bertha became a staple of entertainment at the Nugget and the de facto mascot...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 5 includes materials relating to the Nugget's performing elephants. Beginning in 1961, a deal was made to buy Bertha the elephant from a circus museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin for $8,000. Bertha arrived in Sparks the following year in 1962, just in time for the opening of the Nugget's Circus Room. Although the Circus Room featured many top performers including Jimmy Durante, Red Skelton, Dinah Shore, and Liberace, Bertha became a staple of entertainment at the Nugget and the de facto mascot...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 5 includes materials relating to the Nugget's performing elephants. Beginning in 1961, a deal was made to buy Bertha the elephant from a circus museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin for $8,000. Bertha arrived in Sparks the following year in 1962, just in time for the opening of the Nugget's Circus Room. Although the Circus Room featured many top performers including Jimmy Durante, Red Skelton, Dinah Shore, and Liberace, Bertha became a staple of entertainment at the Nugget and the de facto mascot...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 6 includes a 1917 issue of The Billboard Magazine, a plaque and belt buckle dedicated to "Happy" Bill Howard for breaking the flagpole-sitting record, a chef's hat with Ascuaga's name embroidered on the front, various certificates recognizing Ascuaga and his family, license plates from the Ascuaga's Jeep Cherokee, and a small souvenir shovel commemorating the groundbreaking for the east hotel tower construction in 1995. Also present are several...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 6 includes a 1917 issue of The Billboard Magazine, a plaque and belt buckle dedicated to "Happy" Bill Howard for breaking the flagpole-sitting record, a chef's hat with Ascuaga's name embroidered on the front, various certificates recognizing Ascuaga and his family, license plates from the Ascuaga's Jeep Cherokee, and a small souvenir shovel commemorating the groundbreaking for the east hotel tower construction in 1995. Also present are several...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 6 includes a 1917 issue of The Billboard Magazine, a plaque and belt buckle dedicated to "Happy" Bill Howard for breaking the flagpole-sitting record, a chef's hat with Ascuaga's name embroidered on the front, various certificates recognizing Ascuaga and his family, license plates from the Ascuaga's Jeep Cherokee, and a small souvenir shovel commemorating the groundbreaking for the east hotel tower construction in 1995. Also present are several...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 6 includes a 1917 issue of The Billboard Magazine, a plaque and belt buckle dedicated to "Happy" Bill Howard for breaking the flagpole-sitting record, a chef's hat with Ascuaga's name embroidered on the front, various certificates recognizing Ascuaga and his family, license plates from the Ascuaga's Jeep Cherokee, and a small souvenir shovel commemorating the groundbreaking for the east hotel tower construction in 1995. Also present are several...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 6 includes a 1917 issue of The Billboard Magazine, a plaque and belt buckle dedicated to "Happy" Bill Howard for breaking the flagpole-sitting record, a chef's hat with Ascuaga's name embroidered on the front, various certificates recognizing Ascuaga and his family, license plates from the Ascuaga's Jeep Cherokee, and a small souvenir shovel commemorating the groundbreaking for the east hotel tower construction in 1995. Also present are several...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 6 includes a 1917 issue of The Billboard Magazine, a plaque and belt buckle dedicated to "Happy" Bill Howard for breaking the flagpole-sitting record, a chef's hat with Ascuaga's name embroidered on the front, various certificates recognizing Ascuaga and his family, license plates from the Ascuaga's Jeep Cherokee, and a small souvenir shovel commemorating the groundbreaking for the east hotel tower construction in 1995. Also present are several...