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Elizabeth Gemmell Frizzell Photograph Collection
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The Elizabeth Gemmell Frizzell Photograph Collection, approximately 1982 to 2015, contains black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of depicting life at the Prince Mine in Pioche, Nevada. Images portray Tom Wah and his wife Gue Gim Wah posing in front of the one-room school house where Tom served meals and lived for a short time prior to purchasing the mine store. Images are reproductions created between 1982 and 2020 of scenes from approximately 1920 to 1939.
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Relda Leavitt Photograph Collection
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The Relda Leavitt Photograph Collection (1983) consists of reproductions of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of images taken between approximately 1913 and 1954. The images depict Leavitt’s relatives in Southern Nevada. Other images portray students at the 5th Street Grammar School in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, September 21, 1972
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Andress, Donna, 1925-
Donna Hanley Andress arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the early 1930s with her mother Clarabelle Decker who taught at the Las Vegas Grammar School. In 1944 she married Clyde Gail Andress and, except for relocations due to military service in World War Two, remained an active citizen of Las Vegas until retiring to Nelson, Nevada, in 1987. Donna volunteered to serve in a number of community organizations, principally the Service League, the forerunner of the Junior League of Las Vegas.
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Goodall, Leonard E.
Leonard Goodall was born in Warrensburg, Missouri on March 15, 1937. After high school he attended Central Missouri State College. He earned his master's at the University of Missouri and attended the University of Illinois for his doctorate in political science. After college, he taught at Arizona State University in the Political Science department. He then moved to the Univesity of Ilinois, Chicago starting out as an instructor, but eventually becoming a chancellor at the unviersity.
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Henry, Audrey June Taylor
Audrey "June" Taylor Henry was born February 24, 1935. Her parents were members of the Brownskin Models, a touring carnival show in the mid-1930s. Audrey grew up in the care of nannies while her parents toured. She went to the New York School of Performing Arts and was a dancer. For a while, she sold black history books over the phone. Audrey earned undergraduate and master's degrees in education and counseling, and maintained a successful ten-year radio broadcast career.
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Sitton, Pamela
Pamela Sitton was born October 27, 1948. In 1963, her family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where her father worked at the Nevada Test Site. She attended the original Las Vegas High School and then the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), where she earned a degree in English literature. Sitton worked a series of part-time jobs from cocktail waitress to post office worker, and got married to Stanford Lee Sitton II in October 7, 1973.
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Moore, Janie
Janie (Tobman) Moore is a native of Las Vegas, Nevada and the daughter of small business owners Herb and Jean Tobman. Janie Moore attended West Charleston Elementary, Hyde Park Junior High School, and Clark High School. After a semester at Arizona State University, Moore worked at the Stardust Hotel for many years, both as a cashier in Freddie's clothing store and for the chief of security.
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Wright, Samuel E., 1946-
Samuel E. Wright was born in Washington, D. C. He attended Howard University. Wright arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1979. Samuel E. Wright candidly discusses growing up during the 1960s racial riots and notes the influence of black activist Stokely Carmichael during that era. He attended Howard University and began a career in public transportation that eventually brought him to Los Angeles and then to Las Vegas with a personal invitation from Mayor Bill Briare.
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