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Yucca Mountain Environmental Safety Reports Collection
Identifier
MS-00786
Abstract
The Yucca Mountain Environmental Safety Collection (1970-2011) consists of reports and impact studies collected by Clark County's Nuclear Waste Division library for documenting Yucca Mountain's potential health and safety risks to Southern Nevada. The reports contain documents pertaining to potential environmental, health, financial, and safety risks from the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, which is located in Nye County, Nevada. The collection contains scientific and social studies in support of and opposition to the site. The bulk of the collection includes licensing reports, site selection studies, and impact studies from transporting, storing, and handling radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.
Archival Collection
Dr. James B. McMillan oral history interview
Identifier
OH-02583
Abstract
Oral history interview with Dr. James B. McMillan conducted by Perry Kaufman on April 14, 1972 for the UNLV University Libraries Oral History Project. In the interview, McMillan discusses his childhood in Aberdeen, Mississippi and his parents' experience with racial discrimination. He then talks about his own experiences with racial discrimination while living in Las Vegas, Nevada. McMillan recalls his involvement with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the tension between community leaders and local politicians including Pat McCarran and John Russell. McMillan discusses integration and white power structures and how they affect the Black community in Las Vegas. Lastly, he discusses his relationship with other Black activists and figures in the community, including Dr. Charles West, Bob Bailey, Lubertha Johnson, and Mabel Hoggard.
Archival Collection
Architectural drawings of rest rooms at Zion National Park, Utah, floor plan, elevations, sections and details, December 12, 1925
Date
1925-12-12
Archival Collection
Description
Floor plan, elevations, sections and details of rest room building at Zion National Park, Utah, as constructed. Sheet 1, Job no. 351, date 12/12/25, rev. 1/10/26. "Revised April 9, 1930. Drawing made as constructed." "Recommended by D. R. Hull per T.C. Unit, Landscape Eng. N.P.S. Approved by Stephen T. Mather, Director, N.P.S." Scale: 3/4"=1'-0". "Dr. by A.P.B. Tr. by Brown. Ch. by P.R. Gage."
Site Name: Zion National Park (Utah)
Image
Architectural drawing of cabin, Zion National Park, Utah, plan, elevations, section, details, details of bed and dresser, 1924
Date
1924
Archival Collection
Description
Floor plan, elevations, details and sections for guest cabin at Zion National Park, Utah. Includes plans and elevations for furtniture. "Drawn by MB. Tr. by NY. File No. 15182-I. Sheet #1. Job #258. Revised Aug. 27-24. Revised Dec. 29-24. Revised Mar. 27-28." "Recommended by D. R. Hull, Landscape Eng. N.P.S. Approved by Stephen T. Mather, Actg. Director, N.P.S." No original date on plan.
Site Name: Zion National Park (Utah)
Image
Frank D. Rathbun Photograph Collection
Identifier
PH-00163
Abstract
The Frank D. Rathbun Photograph Collection dates from approximately 1915 to 1968 and consists primarily of black-and-white photographic prints and some corresponding negatives taken by Frank D. Rathbun and Michael Moen, who resurveyed the various sites Rathbun visited. The majority of the images depict petroglyphs located throughout the desert southwest in Nevada, California, and Arizona, as well as documentary images of the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the Hoover Dam transmission lines. Additional material includes postcards from areas Rathbun visited in California, Arizona, and Nevada.
Archival Collection
Bob Parker Photograph Collection
Identifier
PH-00271
Abstract
The Bob Parker Photograph Collection consists of twenty-seven black-and-white photographic prints showcasing the construction of the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) from approximately 1930 to 1942.
Archival Collection
Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, July 23, 2001
Date
2001-07-23
Archival Collection
Description
Includes meeting minutes and agenda. CSUN Session 31 (Part 2) Meeting Minutes and Agendas.
Text
Architectural drawings of a four room deluxe cabin in Zion National Park, foundations, sections, details, elevations, January 12, 1929
Date
1929-01-12
Description
Plans for a four room deluxe cabin at Zion National Park, 1-12-1929 (3 sheets; Job. 486): #15765-A: plan foundation and section; #15765-B: elevations and sections; #15765-C: details and interior elevations. Scales as noted. Sheet 1 revised April 4, 1929; sheets 2-3 revised March 14, 1929.
Site Name: Zion National Park (Utah)
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Cohen, Bernard Louis, 1918-2002
Bio taken from Find-A-Grave: "Dr. Bernard Louis Cohen, 83, of Prospect Street, Malone, N.Y. and E. Harmon Avenue, Las Vegas, Nev., died Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at Nathan Adelson Hospice, Las Vegas, Nev.
He was born Oct. 31, 1918, in Gouverneur, N.Y., the son of Hyman and Mildred Edison Cohen. They predeceased him.
He married Dr. Shirlee Krakauer Nov. 10, 1946, at the Essex House in New York City. She survives.
Person