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Basil Harris Scrapbook
Coll # 95-23
Date: ca. 1940s-1960s
Extent 1 oversize box
Collection consists of a scrapbook on the Las Vegas Strip from the 1940s-1960s consisting of cocktail napkins, show programs, menus, swizzle sticks, postcards from a number of different hotel/casinos including the Flamingo, the Sands, the El Rancho, and the Last Frontier.

Frank's Cafe
Coll # Mss24
Date: n.d.
Extent 1 folder (containing 1 item)
Collection consists of a discount ticket for Frank's Cafe, $2.50 for $2.25, 122 South First St., Las Vegas, Nevada sold to Jose A. Ramos, signed F. Rivero.

Hart, Nat
Coll # 2000-15
Date: 1950-1990's
Extent 16 record storage boxes
Collection consists of the personal papers and photographs of noted Las Vegas chef and
restaurateur, Nat Hart, who ran the Bacchanal Restaurant in Caesar's Palace. Material includes
news clippings, scrapbooks, awards, architectural plans, recipes, and photographs.

Heffner, Van V.
Coll # 93-34
Date: ca. 1980's - 1990's
Extent 2 record storage boxes
Collection contains the convention programs for Nevada Lodgings (for the Nevada Hotel and Motel Association) annual meetings and the Chef of the Year convention, and the Food Executive Newsletter, Nevada Hospitality, Nevada Lodging, International Food Service Executive Association Magazine, and other culinary and lodging/management publications.

IFSEA
Coll # 89-32
Date: ca. 1910-1990s
Extent 144 boxes (record storage and document)
Collection is comprised of the organizational records of the International Food Service
Executives Association. The records include meeting programs, minutes, menus, conference
reports and proceedings, financial reports, newsletters, awards certificates, photographs,
scrapbooks. Materials are from both national and regional branches of the organization. Club artifacts and trophies also form part of the collection. INVENTORY AVAILABLE

Lannegrasse, Vern
Coll # 88-107
Date: 1960's-1980's
Extent 1 slim document box
Collection consists of menus, programs from various culinary events and dinners, magazines

Olmstead, Vern
Coll # MS8
Date: x
Extent 69 document boxes, 6 record storage boxes
Collection consists of Olmstead's materials on meat cutting, marketing, and production. There are a number of books in the collection. INVENTORY AVAILABLE
NOTE: THIS COLLECTION IS STORED IN LIED LIBRARY'S LASR SYSTEM, PLEASE CALL AHEAD TO OBTAIN BOXES.

Shaw, James C.
Coll # 86-55
Date: 1986
Extent 1 slim document box
Collection contains menus and sales packages from various hotels in Canada and the U.S.

Stevens, Muriel
Coll # 86-67
Date: 1971 - 1981
Extent 1 record storage box
Collection contains some of the records of television chef Muriel Stevens. Included are brochures and programs from the Restaurant Hotel Motel Expo and the National Fancy Food and Confection Show, recipes for cooking demonstrations, the chef's menu for the Boardwalk Regency Hotel and Casino, cooking certificates, city maps, and newspaper articles about a milk supplier controversy with allegations of kickbacks INVENTORY AVAILABLE

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