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HARRAH'S COLLECTION

*** Items #1-53 in this collection have been
scanned to a disk. Numbers on scans
are the same as the photo numbers.

0001 Bill Harrah, early 1960s. (COLOR TRANSPARENCY)
0002 Bill Harrah -- color photo on cover of Harrah-scope magazine, June 1972.
0003 Bill Harrah, 1978. Color photo on cover of the memorial issue of
Harrah-scope.
0004 Original staff in the Tango Parlor, 1937. Bill Harrah is the tall man in the
dark glasses.
0005 Bill Harrah with his father, John Harrah, outside Harrah's Bingo Club, Reno,
Nevada. (1959)
0006 Bill Harrah cutting the ribbon at the opening of the new Reno Casino and
restaurant addition, 1962.
0007 Bill Harrah (3rd from right) and Harrah's executives on floor of New York Stock
Exchange, 1973, holding the ticker tape of Harrah's first trade.
0008 Highway 50 at State Line, Nevada, before Harrah's was built.
0009 Stateline. The Gateway Club. The property next door was Harvey's Wagon
Wheel, precursor of Harvey's hotel and resort. (Pls credit: Nevada Historical
Society)
0010 Harrah's Stateline Country Club, 1956.
0011 Harrah's Club, 1958, across from the Country Club.
0012 A newspaper ad for Harrah's Greyhound Bus promotion.
0013 Bill Harrah (left) and Bob Ring (3rd from left) showing the model of the new
Stateline restaurant and showroom.
0014 The Stateline Restaurant Showroom - Harrah's Tahoe now concentrated on one
site across the highway from the lake.
0015 Harrah's Tahoe Tower, Martin Stern Jr.'s original concept. (Martin Stern
Collection) (OVERSIZE)
0016 Harrah's Tahoe, Stern's revised concept. (Martin Stern Collection)
0017 Harrah's Tahoe. Stern's final design as constructed. (Martin Stern Collection)
0018 Bill Harrah (rt.) with Martin Stern Jr., signing a girder at the topping out
ceremony for the Lake Tahoe Hotel Tower, 1972.
0019 Color photo of Harrah's Lake Tahoe.
0020 Commercial Street in Reno, Nevada. (1938)
0021 Color transparency of Harrah's Club in Reno. (1960s) Downtown.
0022 Harrah's Reno early conceptual design (in color) by Martin Stern.
(Martin Stern Collection)
0023 Harrah's Reno -Stern's design as built. (color drawing)
(Martin Stern Collection) (OVERSIZE)
0024 Harrah's Reno-Reno, Nevada, 1980s. (color photo)

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0025 Martin Stern's conceptual design for Harrah's Marina in Atlantic City.
(Martin Stern Collection)
0026 Martin Stern's conceptual design for Harrah's Marina in Atlantic City.
(Martin Stern Collection) (see also #0331 0025)
0027 Harrah's Marina in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (1980s) (color photo)
0028 Cover of Harrah-scope, 1983. Las Vegas Holiday Inn/Holiday Casino
joins Harrah's. The original hotel and casino had been designed by
Homer Rissman.
0029 Martin Stern's proposed master plan for the tower expansion of the Las
Vegas Holiday Inn, now Harrah's. (Martin Stern Collection)
0030 Example of stock entertainment ad for Harrah's Tahoe.
0031 Red Skelton at the opening party for the new Harrah's Stateline
showroom, 1959.
0032 Bill Harrah (rt.) and Sammy Davis Jr.
0033 Frank Sinatra (left) and John Denver performing together at Harrah's Lake
Tahoe in 1975.
0034 Advertising postcard for Harrah's Club Reno, featuring the Little Sultan
trademark.
0035 Early rendering of the proposed Hard Rock Hotel in which Harrah's was to
be a partner. From Harrah's People , summer 1991 issue, pp. 14-15.
0036 The first issue of the Harrah-Scope, April 1955. Rosemary Primm, an
employee whose name for the new magazine was chosen in an employee
contest, was featured.
0037 Cover of Harrah-scope, April 1980. Harrah's new management, Chairman
Mead Dixon and President Richard Goeglein.
0038 Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. "Identity Book" introducing and launching the
"new" Harrah's Corporation after its spin-off from the Promus Companies.
(1995)
0039 Harrah's People, November-December 1990 issue, "We're a Brand of Better
People", pp. 6-7.
0040 Harrah's People, special issue - Spring 1994, "The Legend of Our Logo".
(on back cover)
0041
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0048 Vacated
0049 Harrah's Club, Reno - letterhead.
0050 Harrah's Club, Reno. (no date)
0051 Original artist's rendering of Tango Heart Club (Reno), 1937.
(COLOR TRANSPARENCY)

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0052 Harrah's Tahoe South Shore. (Lake Tahoe) Advertising art.
0053 Harrah's Club, Reno, advertising pamphlet, "The Amazing Air Curtain".


*** THE FOLLOWING ARE SLIDES, HOUSED IN THE SLIDE NOTEBOOKS

They are of the World Series Sportsbook Promotion, Harrah's Reno, which
opened October 14, 1989.

0054 Introduction slide.
0055 Full size poster promoting the event.
0056 Game pieces (Sportsbook punch card, back with the rules, gaming with
special hole punch.)
0057 Poster with promotion ball and bat.
0058 Poster with promotion bat.
0059 Poster with promotion T-Shirt.
0060 Game pieces (Sportsbook card, back with the rules, Gaming Card), with
special punch, betting tickets, chips and playing cards.
0061 All facets of the promotion.


Additions to Collection

0062 Portrait of William Harrah - Feb. 5, 1959.
0063 Bill Harrah at Harrah's Club (Reno, Lake Tahoe?), standing by a pile of
Casino chips. (c. 1950s?)
0064 William Harrah, Chairman of the Board. (portrait) (c. 1970s)
0065 William Harrah (left) and his father John Harrah outside Harrah's Bingo Club,
Reno, c. 1959.
0066 Bill Harrah (left) on a boat with Bill Cosby. (c. 1970s) (color photo)
0067 Jim Nabors (left) and Bill Harrah fishing. (c. 1971)
0068 Bill Harrah (left) and Lloyd Dyer (his successor). (c. 1970s)

 

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