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Tammy Bass (wearing black jacket) at Operation Life Christmas party. She was a HUD counselor who worked for Operation Life. Ruby Duncan (seated, wearing white) and Renee Diamond (standing, holding cup), 1980s

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Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
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Collection Number: PH-00323
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: Folder 02

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Negative: Tammy Bass (wearing black jacket) at Operation Life Christmas party. She was a HUD counselor who worked for Operation Life. Ruby Duncan (seated, wearing white) and Renee Diamond (standing, holding cup), 1980s

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Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
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Collection Number: PH-00323
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: Box SH-033

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Negative: (L-R): Aldine Weems; Marty Makower, National Economic Development and Law Center, Berkeley, California; Renee Diamond; unidentified federal employee; Ruby Duncan, executive director of Operation Life. HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s

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Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
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Collection Number: PH-00323
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: Box SH-033

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Left to right (L-R): Aldine Weems; Marty Makower, National Economic Development and Law Center, Berkeley, California; Renee Diamond; unidentified federal employee; Ruby Duncan, executive director of Operation Life. HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s

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Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
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Collection Number: PH-00323
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: Folder 01

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HUD regional office, San Francisco. Signing paperwork for the grant for Ruby Duncan Manor in Las Vegas, Nevada (housing for the elderly and the handicapped, funded under Sec. 202 of HUD). Ruby Duncan (right), executive director; Renee Diamond (left) board member for Operation Life, 1980s

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Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00323
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: Folder 01

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Negative: HUD regional office, San Francisco. Signing paperwork for the grant for Ruby Duncan Manor in Las Vegas, Nevada (housing for the elderly and the handicapped, funded under Sec. 202 of HUD). Ruby Duncan (right), executive director; Renee Diamond (left) board member for Operation Life, 1980s

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Archival Collection

Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00323
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: Box SH-033

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Renee L. Diamond oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02188

Abstract

Oral history interview with Renee Diamond conducted by Barbara Tabach on November 20, 2014 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, Renee Diamond discusses coming to Las Vegas, Nevada via Los Angeles, California with her husband and children in the 1970s and getting involved in politics. She talks about her husband, Leo, and his business selling vinyl records in L.A., and her work in a doctor's office. Once in Las Vegas, the Diamonds joined Temple Beth Sholom and later Congregation Ner Tamid. Diamond also talks about her involvement in the political arena in southern Nevada, including the League of Women Voters.

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Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life

Identifier

PH-00323

Abstract

The Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life (1970s-1980s) is comprised primarily of photographic prints with some corresponding 35 mm negatives of Ruby Duncan and other Operation Life organizers, as well as important organization buildings. Materials include photographs of Ruby Duncan, Aldine Weems, Renee Diamond, and Jack Anderson in the original Operation Life Las Vegas, Nevada Operation Life headquarters and the regional office in San Francisco, California. Also pictured are other employees and beneficiaries of the organization at a Christmas Party.

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Photograph from Dorothy Eisenberg papers, 1970-1991

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Women's Democratic Club, 1990. Back left: Sara Besser, Judy Klein, Sharon Segerblom?, Renee Diamond, Helen Meyers, Lindsey Jydstrip, Shelley Berkley, Jan Jenkins. Front Left: Beverly Carlino-Banta, Bonnie Bryan, Dorothy Eisenberg, Marie Ripps

Video, Congregation Ner Tamid oral history roundtable, September 21, 2016

Date

2016-09-21

Description

Rabbi Sanford Akselrad, Gerald Gordon, Bob Unger, David Wasserman, Renee Diamond and Gilbert Shaw discuss the founding of Congregation Ner Tamid in 1974. It became the first Reform synagogue in Las Vegas. The conversation includes discussion about the first meeting, the move into the current location, and the hiring of Rabbi Akselrad.

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