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Dayvid Figler oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Dayvid Figler conducted by Barbara Tabach on June 22, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Figler discusses his youth, his bar mitzvah at Temple Beth Sholom, and path to a career as a criminal defense attorney. He also talks about embracing Las Vegas, Nevada as his home, owning a home in the John S. Park neighborhood, and mentions a number of literary depictions of Las Vegas that he admires.
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Visit Las Vegas: archived website, 2020
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Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Digital Communication about COVID-19 in Las Vegas
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Harry Mortenson oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Harry Mortenson conducted by Claytee D. White on April 08, 2014, April 22, 2014, and May 06, 2014 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In the first interview, Mortenson discusses his personal background, working at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and arriving to Nevada to work as a nuclear physicist at the Nevada Test Site. Mortenson describes his work and recalls anecdotes from his employment. He then talks about his company, Sigma Scientific, and explains the different projects where he worked as a consultant. In the second interview, Mortenson discusses the methods of transportation used to arrive to the Nevada Test Site, his involvement with different organizations, and his tenure in the Nevada State Legislature. In the final interview, Mortenson discusses the device he built to take photographs of the nuclear reactor cores at Las Alamos National Laboratory, and explains how that device worked.
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Gerald L. Connor oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Gerald Connor conducted by James Bonnell on February 22, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Connor first discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada and serving as a pilot in the United States Air Force. He then discusses his education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and his church membership. Topics that Connor discusses during the interview also include changes in the school district and properties located in Downtown Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Strip, his political activity within the Democratic Party, the Helldorado Parades, and the early atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site.
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Gay and Lesbian Community Center Honorarium at Utopia Nightclub in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints
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From the Las Vegas Bugle Photograph Collection on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (PH-00336). Gay and Lesbian Community Center Honorarium (April 28, 1996) at Utopia nightclub.
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Photograph of Women's Mikva at Chabad of Las Vegas, Las Vegas (Nev.), September 22, 2016
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A waiting room in the Women's Mikva as seen at the Chabad of Las Vegas at 1261 Arville Street.
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Photograph of overnight suite at Chabad of Las Vegas, Las Vegas (Nev.), September 22, 2016
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This family overnight suite is one of three at the Chabad of Las Vegas at 1261 Arville Street.
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Photograph of overnight suite at Chabad of Las Vegas, Las Vegas (Nev.), September 22, 2016
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This family overnight suite is one of three at the Chabad of Las Vegas at 1261 Arville Street.
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Ground squirrel at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Ground squirrel at Gay Pride at Sunset Park, 1999. Photographer: Dennis McBride. (5-8-99).
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Photograph of Women's Mikva at Chabad of Las Vegas, Las Vegas (Nev.), September 22, 2016
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A waiting room and bathroom in the Women's Mikva as seen at the Chabad of Las Vegas at 1261 Arville Street.
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