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Christian Chan oral history interview: transcript

Date

2022-05-06

Description

Oral history interview with Christian Chan conducted by Cecilia Winchell, Jerwin Tiu, and Stefani Evans on May 06, 2022 for the Reflections: the Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. In this interview, Chan begins by describing her childhood in Hong Kong and later moving to San Francisco, California with her family, then to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1965. She recalls attending Sunrise Acres and Roy Martin Middle School before graduating from Valley High School as valedictorian. In college, Chan attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and graduated with a degree in engineering. After college, she found work in the Las Vegas Valley Water District and became the first woman engineer. During her five years there, she excountered subtle sexism for the first time. Chan continues the interview by describing her work while she lived in California, as well as her years internationally living in the Philippines as well as Ecuador. Throughout the interview, Chan touches on topics ranging from identity, to her impressions of the different generations, discrimination, and the growth of Las Vegas.

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Photograph of Chapter #9 International Footprinters Association, North Las Vegas, Nevada, June 22, 1976

Date

1976-06-22

Description

Chapter #9 International Footprinters Association, North Las Vegas, Nevada, June 22, 1976.

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Photograph of Roy Rogers, Las Vegas, August 22, 1980

Date

1980-08-22

Description

Roy Rogers helps his wife Dale Evans down from a Sam's Town stagecoach.

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Las Vegas Club: mechanical plans, 1978 November 22

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File

Archival Collection

J. A. Tiberti Construction Records

Archival Component

Nancy Brune oral history interview: transcript

Date

2019-08-21

Description

Oral history interview with Nancy Brune conducted by Monserrath Hernandez and Rodrigo Vazquez on August 21, 2019 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. In this interview, Brune recalls her childhood and her experiences growing up in Austin and San Antonio, Texas to a Mexican-American father and British mother. She often identifies herself as tejana. Brune has lived in Las Vegas, Nevada since 2007 and is the Executive Director of the Kenny Guinn Center for Policy Priorities. Brune is a graduate of Harvard and has a doctoral degree from Yale University. She and her husband, Richard Boulware, who is a born and raised Las Vegan, have three children.

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Growth of Jewish Population in Las Vegas, 1999 March 22

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Archival Collection

Jewish Nevada Records

Archival Component

Luna! Las Vegas: photographic prints, 2002 February 22

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Item

Archival Collection

Dennis McBride Photograph Collection

Archival Component

Kathia Quiros Pereira oral history interview: transcript

Date

2020-03-06

Description

Oral history interview with Kathia Quiros Pereira conducted by Monserrath Hernández on March 6, 2020 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Pereira discusses her personal history and immigration from Lima, Peru to the United States. She also talks of her educational background as a student at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and her current work as a founding partner of Pereira Immigration Law Group where she exclusively practices immigration law in Las Vegas.

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Photograph of Rabbi Shea Harlig with wife Dina, Las Vegas (Nev.), September 22, 2016

Date

2016-09-22

Description

Rabbi Shea Harlig poses with his wife Dina in the library of the Chabad of Las Vegas at 1261 Arville Street.

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Rotary Club of Las Vegas luncheon, 1973 June 22

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Archival Collection

Frank Mitrani Photographs

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