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The Bucks Advertiser and Aylesbury News, no. 5979, 1948 December 24
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Archival Collection
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Reveille for the Weekend, no. 311, 1949 June 24 to 1949 June 26
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Archival Collection
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The Times (incomplete run), 1793 to 1935
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Archival Collection
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Manuscript material
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Archival Collection
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Playbills, slip ballads, broadsides, and illustrations, approximately 1780 to 1799
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Lucile Bunker oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Lucile Bunker conducted by herself on March 10, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Bunker recalls her early experiences and various jobs in Las Vegas, Nevada. She also describes her experiences as the wife of former Senator Berkeley Bunker and living in Washington, D.C.. Bunker then discusses her missionary work, the early above-ground atomic testing, and the building of Hoover Dam.
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Robert K. Bunker oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Robert Bunker conducted by Kent Harmon on October 11, 1972 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. This interview covers Mr. Bunker’s family life from Bunkerville to Las Vegas, Nevada. During the interview Robert discusses farming, religious life, and raising a family in Las Vegas. He also discusses the crash of Carole Lombard’s plane on Mount Potosi and describes McCarran Airport and Nellis Airport in the early days.
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Vernon Earl Bunker oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Vernon Earl Bunker conducted by Janice E. Sellers on October 19, 1972 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Bunker discusses his religious affiliation with the Latter-Day Saints Church in Las Vegas, Nevada; First State Bank, Moapa Valley, and the flood of 1910.
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Wendell Bunker oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Wendell Bunker on October of 1971 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Wendell Bunker (b. 1911 in St. Thomas, Nevada), discusses early Las Vegas, Nevada and the socio-economic changes that have taken place in the Valley. Bunker talks about the Boulder (Hoover) Dam and religion and education in Nevada. He also describes working for the Union Pacific Railroad and the importance of the railroad to the economic development of Las Vegas.
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Lestor Burgwardt oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Lestor Burgwardt conducted by Connie Carr on February 09, 1980 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Burgwardt covers local entertainment, Lake Mead, school districts, and gaming’s effect on the educational system. He also recalls his move to Nevada and offers a general overview of Henderson, Nevada in 1954.
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