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Louis Yoxen interview, 2003: transcript

Date

2003-10-08
2003-10-15

Description

Yoxen begins her interview by discussing how she first arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada to work for the U.S. State Department in the 1950s. She then describes her childhood in Alabama, competing in the Miss America pageant, and her life in Miami, Florida. Yoxen also discusses living in North Africa and Berlin, Germany while working for the State Department as a clerk. She then talks about moving around with her sister and her family, and eventually coming to Las Vegas. She describes what Las Vegas was like in the 1950s. Yoxen ends her interview with a discussion on her family, her husband's work, and their recreational activities.

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Margo Knowles interview, March 25, 1981: transcript

Date

1981-03-25

Description

From the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas, OH-01039. On March 25, 1981, collector Sonny Neighbors interviewed his mother, Margo Knowles (born October 13th, 1935 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) at her home in Las Vegas, Nevada. Margo speaks about growing up and going to school in Las Vegas. She also discusses her work as a telephone operator in Las Vegas, and at the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada.

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Transcript of interview with Mildred Breedlove by Steve Drappo, February 18, 1979

Date

1979-02-18

Description

Steve Drappo interviews Mildred Breedlove (b. 1904) who was born in Coal Hill, Arkansas. Breedlove relocated to Nevada in 1949. During this interview Breedlove discusses her personal experience of owning her own ranch in Nevada.

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Transcript of interview with Gwen Walker by Claytee White, July 15, 2014

Date

2014-07-15

Description

Gwendolyn K. Walker arrived in North Las Vegas in 1962 from Houston, Texas, as a five-year-old with her parents, two brothers, and her cousins. The Walker family at first moved to a rented house on D Street, and Gwen attended Kit Carson Elementary School for first grade. Her mother enrolled in nursing school, so she sent Gwen back to Delhi, Louisiana, to be raised by her grandmother. In Delhi Gwen picked cotton with her aunt while she was in the second grade. Gwen returned to North Las Vegas to live with her mother and complete elementary school at Jo Mackey before matriculating to J. D. Smith Elementary School for junior high school and then to Clark High School. Later she attended UNLV. Gwen and her mother joined Saint James Catholic Church at H Street and Washington Avenue, but after she returned from Delhi she joined Second Baptist Church, where she became close with a cohort of friends that remained strong even as she experienced racism and bullying and love for the first time.

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"Around the World with Bob" calendar, 2011

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File

Archival Collection

Robert L. Forbuss Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00888
Collection Name: Robert L. Forbuss Papers
Box/Folder: Oversized Box SH-081 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Tecopa Railroad #1 2-6-2T at Noonday Mine, Tecopa, California: photographic print, approximately 1900 to 1935

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00305
Collection Name: Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01

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Noonday Mine, Tecopa Consolidated Mining Co., nine miles east of Tecopa, California: photographic print, approximately 1900 to 1935

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00305
Collection Name: Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01

Archival Component

Tecopa Railroad #1 2-6-2T BLW 1909 #34089 at Noonday Mine, near Tecopa, California: photographic print, approximately 1900 to 1932

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Item

Archival Collection

Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00305
Collection Name: Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01

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View of Tonopah from the Railroad Depot part of the Tonopah Railroad yard showing freight which has spilled over from depot platform: photographic print, 1905

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Item

Archival Collection

Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00305
Collection Name: Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01

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Shipping ore at Tonopah, Nevada railroad yard: photographic print, approximately 1900 to 1935

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00305
Collection Name: Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01

Archival Component