Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Collection. [1911-1988].

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Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Collection. [1911-1988].

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The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Collection contains an incomplete series of minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors as well as general meetings of the membership from the Chamber's founding in 1911 through 1913, from 1924-29, and from 1944-48. Financial records include a dues ledger from 1911 (in which minutes of meetings were penciled) and two cash books covering the years 1929-41. A series of scrapbooks of activities of the Merchants' Bureau of the Chamber from 1963 complied by the Bureau's manager, Ken O'Connell, includes memoranda, correspondence and press clippings and photographs. There are a series of files on the history of the Chamber of Commerce, gathered for the diamond anniversary in 1986 including the calendar produced by the chamber as well as narrative histories of the chamber and the Las Vegas News Bureau, photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous brochures and information. The collection also contains a number of Chamber of Commerce publications from 1948 to 1988. Some items duplicate library holdings.

2 boxes (2 linear feet) .

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7281884

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

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