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Photograph of Raymonde Fiol, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 17, 2016

Date

2016-05-17

Archival Collection

UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Jewish Community of Southern Nevada

Description

Raymonde "Ray" Fiol at her Summerlin neighborhood home. A Jewish Holocaust survivor whose parents were killed in Auschwitz, Fiol was hidden by a Christian family of resistance fighters during her childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, France. She married an American service member, Phil Fiol, in 1957. Upon retirement, the couple moved to Las Vegas around 2003 and Raymonde became active in the local Holocaust Survivors Group.

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Photograph of children with their teacher outside of a schoolhouse in Tonopah, Nevada, circa 1909

Date

1908 to 1910

Archival Collection

Nevada Mining Photograph Collection

Description

A group of schoolchildren pose with their teacher, Clarice Bateman (at left), in front the elementary schoolhouse in Tonopah, Nevada. An unidentified woman is seen in the second row. An African-American boy and and Native American Indian boy are seen in the back row; another Native American Indian boy is seen in the front row at the right.

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Photograph of Ruth McGonagill with neighbor, Kawich Range, Nevada, circa 1904

Date

1904 to 1905

Archival Collection

Irma McGonagill Photograph Collection

Description

Photograph of Ruth McGonagill and a neighbor's baby at tent house with pipe from milk-can stove. The family lived here, in the Kawich Range, from about September 1904 through March 1905. (This camp was called Wheaton and was a couple miles up the gully from Silver Bow, Nevada.)

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Film transparency of a view of Boulder Club, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1931

Date

1931

Archival Collection

Elton and Madelaine Garrett Photograph and Architectural Drawing Collection

Description

A view of Boulder Club in Las Vegas, Nevada with sign advertising Ma Kennedy's revival, August 23-30, 1931. (See news articles: Las Vegas Evening Review Journal, August 4-6, 8, 12, 22, 24, 25, 27). The original image has been damaged.

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