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Oral History Research Center at UNLV presentations, 2016
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southwest Oral History Association Records
Box/Folder: Box 15
Archival Component
Hardy, Bill, Las Vegas Board of Realtors, 1974 November 22
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 25
Archival Component
Leroy Burt, Joseph Kine, and Tommy Nelson oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Leroy Burt, Joseph Kine, and Tommy Nelson conducted by Dennis McBride on November 10 and 11, 1986 for the Boulder City Library Oral History Project. The men discuss what they had been doing when the depression started in 1929, when they moved to Nevada, and their first jobs in Boulder City and the dam site. They share stories about their work experiences and discuss the different types of work at the dam, including high scalers, form strippers, jackhammer operators, and concrete pouring and puddling. They also talk about incidents and accidents that occurred during production, and the differences in safety standards in the 1930s and the 1980s.
Archival Collection
Oral history association newsletters, approximately 1990 to 2010
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southwest Oral History Association Records
Box/Folder: Box 23
Archival Component
Doris Merolle, Alan Rosenberg, and David Rosenberg oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Doris Merolle, Alan Rosenberg, and David Rosenberg conducted by Claytee D. White on December 19, 2018 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Merolle discusses her early life in Holland and moving to the Bronx, New York in 1945. Brothers Alan and David Rosenberg met their sister Doris Merolle for the first time in 2018. Alan and David talk about their education in New York, their employment as cab drivers, and Alan’s decision to become a nurse. David remembers researching the genealogy of his family and realizing that Merolle was related through their father. Merolle describes moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1986, her employment at the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino, and being unable to make Las Vegas her home. Lastly, Merolle and the Rosenberg brothers discuss the difference between the neighborhoods in the Bronx and in Las Vegas.
Archival Collection
Oral history correspondence and planning documentation, 2003-2004
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: History of Nursing in Southern Nevada Oral History Project Records
Box/Folder: Box 01 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Oral history interviews with Nevada principals, 2001-2006
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Patrick W. Carlton Papers on the Oral History of the Public School Principalship Project
Box/Folder: Box 06
Archival Component
Oral history interviews with Nevada principals, 2002-2003
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Patrick W. Carlton Papers on the Oral History of the Public School Principalship Project
Box/Folder: Box 07
Archival Component
Oral history interviews with Nevada principals, 2006-2009
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Patrick W. Carlton Papers on the Oral History of the Public School Principalship Project
Box/Folder: Box 08
Archival Component
Oral history interviews with Nevada principals, 2002-2004
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Patrick W. Carlton Papers on the Oral History of the Public School Principalship Project
Box/Folder: Box 09
Archival Component