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Company history
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Gay Switchboard: founding meeting minutes and agendas, 1982-1984
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Terry Wilsey Papers on the Las Vegas, Nevada LGBT Community
Box/Folder: Box 01 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Research for "Straight America, Gay America", 1993 May 10
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Daniel Hinkley Papers
Box/Folder: Box 05
Archival Component
Rotary Club of Las Vegas meeting, 1979 February 22
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 48
Archival Component
Architectural drawing of Sahara Hotel Convention Center (Las Vegas), ground and pavilion floor plan, March 22, 1967
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Architectural plans for the Sahara Hotel Convention Center from 1967. Includes revisions, notes, and banquet room capacities. Printed on mylar. Berton Charles Severson, architect; Brian Walter Webb, architect; Masyoshi Tokubo, delineator.
Site Name: Sahara Hotel and Casino
Address: 2535 Las Vegas Boulevard South
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Family Histories
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Collection on the Las Vegas, Nevada Jewish Community
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Photograph of the mural at the Gay Nineties bar, Last Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas, circa 1940s
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Archival Collection
Description
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Yeon-Kyung (Mar) Chung oral history interview: transcript
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Archival Collection
Description
Oral history interview with Yeon-Kyung (Mar) Chung conducted by Emilee Caivin on November 10, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. In this interview, Yeon-Kyung (Mar) Chung talks about her upbringing in Korea and her educational history, studying Spanish abroad in Spain and Italy before earning her graduate degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas, Austin. Mar Chung talks about her move to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1999 to enroll at the College of Southern Nevada and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to pursue pharmaceutical studies like her parents. She talks about her experience as a single mother, her path to citizenship in the United States, and the Las Vegas Asian American community. Mar Chung also reflects on differences between how she was raised compared to the upbringing of her two children.
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Alber A. Mora oral history interview: transcript
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Archival Collection
Description
Oral history interview with Alber A. Mora conducted by Rodrigo Vazquez and Laurents Bañuelos-Benitez on December 7, 2018 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Alber Mora talks about his life growing up in Cuba with his family and the circumstances of their departure from the country; his brother faced pressures to join the military, which led the Mora family to immigrate to the United States by way of a fishing boat in 1994. Alber discusses the family's lives in Houston, Texas and how he met and married his wife, Rosemary, before the couple moved to Los Angeles and Alber began working at Porto's Bakery, a famous Cuban eatery in L.A. Alber shares how he and his wife eventually moved to Las Vegas, where he works for Caesar's Palace and for the Culinary Workers Union as a Shop Steward.
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#64014: Gay, Jonathan - Employee of the Month, 2003 November 04
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2000s)
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component