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Nevada Test Site protest sign: photographic slide
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Archival Collection
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From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Written on sign: "Sagebrush Alliance convert N.T.S." .
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Nevada Test Site protest sign: photographic slide
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Archival Collection
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From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Written on sign: "Stop storing nuclear waste in Nevada".
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A traditionally dressed Mexican girl is cheered on by onlookers as she tries to break a swinging pinata at a fiesta in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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A traditionally dressed Mexican girl tries to break a swinging pinata filled with candy and other goodies at a fiesta in Las Vegas. She is being cheered on by her friends.
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John Pacheco, portrait and commercial artist, stands inside his studio surrounded by his artwork: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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A native Las Vegan, John Pacheco has been a commercial artist for much of his adult life. Pacheco grew up in East Las Vegas and attended Sunrise Acres Elementary School and graduated from Rancho High School. Pacheco's works as a portrait artist, master sign painter, and commercial artist over the past 50 years can be found throughout southern Nevada in restaurants, businesses, art stores, and private homes.
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Soccer players from two of the sixteen teams comprising the Hispanic Soccer League compete, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Shown here are players from two of the sixteen teams comprising the Hispanic Soccer League. The teams play each Sunday during a six month season. Teams are make up of Hispanics from Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, South America, and native Las Vegas. The games have become a family affair and each Sunday you can find families with their picnic baskets out watching their favorites and socializing.
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Lupe Nunez and Saul Arebas at a Mexican Independence Day celebration at Lion's Park: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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In every Chicano barrio throughout the Southwest, a subculture exists among some Hispanic adolescents and young adults which includes a unique way of speaking, dressing and acting. A fierce loyalty to the neighborhood and the people one grows up with develops during this period as well. Hispanic youth who live in a particular barrio (neighborhood) call each other "Homeboy," Saul Arebas, a local "homeboy" and his lady friends, Lupe Nunez, both pictures of "Urban Chicano Cool" are shown here at the Mexican Independence Day celebration at Lion's Park.
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Siblings David Carrero, Doris Rodriguez, and Yvette Carrero stand together (identified from left to right): photographic print
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Archival Collection
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In 1981, Doris Rodriguez (center) moved to Las Vegas from Topeka, Kansas, with her husband and young son. In 1983, her younger sister, Yvette Carrero (right) and her boyfriend moved to Las Vegas from Lorain, Ohio. The next year, 1984, her brother David Carrero (left), his wife and young son also moved to Las Vegas. In 1985, Doris' sister, Elizabeth and her husband moved here with their two daughters from Lorain, Ohio. In the years since moving to Las Vegas, Doris gave birth to another son as did her brother's wife. Such interfamilial migration patterns and subsequent family expansions are responsible in large part for the impressive growth of Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Emilia Pachecho holds granddaughter Amber Sanchez under a fig tree at their family home in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Emilia Pacheco, in her 80s, is shown here cuddling her grand daughter, Amber Sanchez, under the giant old fig tree whose branches have been trained to lie over sprawling trellis. The trellis was constructed over many years by her brother, Antonio, during his annual visits from Mexico. Emilia, a widow and mother of five surviving children, was born in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. While visiting family in Los Angeles, California, she met her future husband, Francisco. In 1940, the Pacheco's moved to Las Vegas where Francisco worked as a cement finisher, a trade he practiced well into his 80s. Today, Emilia gardens a bit but spends most of her time cooking Mexican meals and relaxing with her children, grand children, and great grand children.
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Clark County Fire Department Captain Ray Vasquez stands near other firefighters after putting out a residential fire: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Shown here taking a breather after putting out a residential fire is Fire Captain Ray Vasquez and his men of the Clark County Fire Department. Vasquez is a native Las Vegan who joined Clark County Fire Department in 1964 after having served a stint in the U.S. Navy. Of his long career, Vasquez is perhaps most proud of his important role in fighting and extinguishing the catastrophic, life-taking fires at the MGM and Hilton Hotels.
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Manny Mandel, manager of Los Trobadores (one of the oldest for-hire mariachi groups in Las Vegas) talks on the phone during a pre-performance rehearsal in his home in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Los Trobadores is one of the oldest for-hire mariachi groups in Las Vegas. As one of the more successful mariachi groups, Los Trobadores regularly performs in local Mexican restaurants, fiestas, weddings, birthdays, quinceneras, and backyard barbeques. Manny Mandel, the group's manager and also a performer is pictured talking on the phone during a pre-performance rehearsal in his home.
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