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Las Vegas | Israeli American Council: archived website, 2016 to 2017
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Web Archive
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Stephen Nasser oral history interview: digital video and transcript, 2020 October
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Shoah Survivors Project oral history interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Porter, Irene E., 1943-2012
After Irene Porter's father's retirement from the Air Force, the family moved to Las Vegas where her aunt and uncle were involved in the gaming industry. After she married, she and her husband Dick moved to Boston. They moved back to Las Vegas due to the bad economy in Boston. Irene worked for the Clark County Planning Department as a secretary but moved up to doing the work of the director, but without the title nor the pay of that position, so she went to work in the planning department of the city of North Las Vegas and became its director of planning.
Person
Audio recording clip of interview with Lonnie G. Wright by Claytee D. White, October 23, 2009
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Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Lonnie G. Wright by Claytee D. White on October 23, 2009. Wright describes how he started the Basketball Alumni Association to help players complete their education.
Sound
Photograph of John Batchelor and others, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1961
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Archival Collection
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Image
Edna Jackson-Ferguson oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Edna Jackson-Ferguson conducted by herself on April 15, 1975 for the UNLV University Libraries Oral History Collection. Jackson-Ferguson provides many details about living in the camp with workers of the Hoover Dam and the tasks required of those workers in building the dam. Jackson-Ferguson mentions some of the other job positions her husband held and their pride in being a part of the Hoover Dam’s construction.
Archival Collection
Marion Allen oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Marion Allen conducted by Dennis McBride on April 14, 1986 for the UNLV University Libraries Oral History Collection. In this interview, Allen discusses the construction of the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) and his father’s employment on the dam. He talks about becoming a dam construction worker and the working conditions during the early stages of the dam. Allen recalls the labor strike in 1935 and the opening of the dam. Lastly, Allen talks about engineer Frank Crowe’s involvement with the the project.
Archival Collection