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Lavern Cummings and Tony Midnite oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Lavern Cummings and Tony Midnite conducted by Dennis McBride on August 29, 2000 for the Las Vegas Gay Archives Oral History Project. In the interview, Cummings and Midnite discuss their work as female impersonators in Las Vegas, Nevada during the late 1960s and 1970s. They also talk about other impersonators and performance venues in Las Vegas and around the United States. They explain the distinctions between transgender and straight performers, and the perceptions of transgender and straight audience members. Other subjects Cummings and Midnite cover include their early lives and arrivals to Las Vegas, and the history of sex reassignment surgeries beginning in the 1930s.
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Booths and people at Sunset Park for Gay Pride, image 009: photographic print
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Gay Pride 1998 at Sunset Park. Photographer: Dennis McBride.
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Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center Honorarium: photographic prints
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Chart, revised charges to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, September 22, 1942
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Chart showing revised charges to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company from the Union Pacific Railroad Company for the years 1939-1941 and the first nine months of 1942 based on projected and actual water consumption in Las Vegas.
Transcribed Notes: Auditor of Disbursements' Office, Omaha, Nebraska - September 22, 1942.
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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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Pool Association of Nevada booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Lock, Stock and Leather booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Gay Pride 1999 at Sunset Park; Photographer: Dennis McBride. Lock, Stock, and Leather booth.
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Democratic Party registration booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Lee Tilman oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Lee Tilman conducted by Dennis McBride on February 06, 11, 13, 17, and 22; May 28; and July 09, 1996 for the Boulder City Library Oral History Project. In the interviews, Tilman discusses his birth in Gooding, Idaho in 1913, his early life, and his arrival to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1931. Tilman then talks about his experiences mining, milling, and ranching before moving to Las Vegas. While in Las Vegas, Tilman was involved with construction of Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) and labor issues. Later, Tilman describes fishing and boating in the Colorado River, working at a duplex mine in Searchlight, Nevada, and working at the Las Vegas Ice House. Lastly, Tilman talks about influential Boulder City residents he knew, his children, and the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino.
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