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William L. Fox Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2006-15
Abstract
William L. Fox, poet, writer and artist, has worked with arts and literary organizations, including the Western States Arts Foundation and the Western States Book Awards, co-founded the West Coast Poetry Review (a small press) with Bruce McAllister, has been an artist-in-residence in Nevada and Washington, deputy and executive director of the Nevada Arts Council (1979-1993), and served as poetry program director for the Squaw Valley Community of Writers...
Dates:
1968-2010
Walter S. Hunsaker Records
Collection
Identifier: 94-43
Abstract
The Hunsaker collection consists of some of Hunsaker's personal papers and those of his wife but a major part of the collection contains the Las Vegas business records of Leigh Hunt and his family. This collection is important because it documents the twentieth century development of Las Vegas as a resort town and illustrates the long-term impact of the construction of Hoover Dam. It also serves to illustrate the formation of a multi-business, family-held corporate structure. Dates range...
Dates:
1884-1988; Majority of material found within 1924-1980
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- Barker, Bill, 1957- 1
- Burning Man (Festival) 1
- Colorado River Exploration Company 1
- Fox, William L. (Title of a work--Driving by memory) 1
- Fox, William L. (Title of a work--In the Desert of Desire: Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle) 1
- Fox, William L. (Title of a work--Mapping the empty: eight artists and Nevada ) 1
- Fox, William L., 1949- 1
- Hunsaker, Martha Morrison, -1982 1
- Hunsaker, Walter S., 1906- 1
- Hunt, Henry L. (Henry Leigh), 1886-1972 1
- Hunt, Jessie N. 1
- Hunt, Leigh S. J., 1855-1933 1
- Huntco (Firm : Las Vegas, Nev.) 1
- Johnson, Ellis Stanley, 1898-1975 1
- McAllister, Bruce 1
- McCormick, James C. (James Calvin), 1936- 1
- McDonald Mines Company 1
- New York and Las Vegas Investment Company 1
- Overton Syndicate 1
- Potts Syndicate 1
- Ridgeview Estates 1
- Rives, Helen Hunt 1
- Schwa Press 1
- Watkins, Minnie Pearl, -1973 1
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