Abstract
The Nancy Austin Papers (1966-1978) consist of newspaper clippings and photographs documenting the career of Las Vegas, Nevada entertainer Nancy Austin. The photographs document Austin’s entertainment career as well as other business ventures, including her own clothing line for plus-size women, called Pudgy Playmates.
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The Nancy Austin Papers (1966-1978) consist of newspaper clippings and photographs documenting the career of Las Vegas, Nevada entertainer Nancy Austin. The photographs in the collection document Austin’s entertainment career as well as other business ventures, including her own clothing line for plus-size women, called Pudgy Playmates.
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Collection is open for research.
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Las Vegas, Nevada comedic entertainer Nancy Byrne Austin was born in Silver Springs, Maryland in 1934. She received her education at the University of Maryland, earning a degree in Education. She taught elementary school for a short time before committing full time to show business. She began performing comedy in New York City in the 1950s and moved to Las Vegas in the early 1960s. Austin made an initial impression as one of the original cast members of the popular Las Vegas daytime review Bottoms Up. She and her husband, Las Vegas entertainer David London, also performed a morning radio show in the 1970s called "Coffee with the Londons."
Austin appeared in many movie and television programs including
Preferred Citation
Nancy Austin Papers, 1966-1978. MS-00613. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 1998 by David London to the Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center and subsequently transferred to the Special Collections Department, Lied Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Accession number; 2005-031.
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Material was processed by Joyce Moore in 2005. In 2014, as part of a legacy finding aid conversion project, Ian M. Baldwin revised and enhanced the collection description to bring it into compliance with current professional standards. Subsequently, Ian M. Baldwin entered the data into ArchivesSpace.
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A six-hour taped interview with Nancy Austin's husband, David London, has been removed from this collection and housed in Special Collections with the other Arnold Shaw tapes.