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Demountable House #22 and #23 Las Vegas, 1944-1947
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 139 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, May 22, 1986
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Video, News 13 segment on the growth of Jewish population in Las Vegas, March 22, 1999
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Segment from News 13 on the Jewish community in Las Vegas and Henderson, Nevada.
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Kaku Makino and Masako "Julie" Ishitsuka oral history interview: transcript
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Oral history interview with Kaku Makino and Masako "Julie" Ishitsuka conducted by Kristel Peralta, Vanessa Concepcion, Ayrton Yamaguchi, and Stefani Evans on March 22, 2021 for the Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. In this interview, Makino discusses his early life in Tokyo, Japan and becoming a chef. He recalls arriving to the United States in 1989, establishing the Todai (now Makino Sushi & Seafood Buffet) restaurant chain, and opening nineteen locations in California, Florida, and in Hawaii. Kano talks about her upbringing in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan and describes Japan during the Meiji era. She remembers arriving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2000 and the cultural change she experienced. Lastly, Makino and Kano discuss the restaurant industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Esther Langston oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Esther Langston conducted by Claytee D. White on February 22, 2005 for the UNLV @ 50 Oral History Project. In this interview, Langston provides an overview of her early life and career in social work. She describes how the women in her family are positive and empowering role models. Langston moves on to explain how she become a social worker over a period of many years. She states that a job experience that helped her gain the qualifications of a social worker was working as an office manager at the Nevada Test Site. She also mentions how she has had to work with conflicts such as racial inequalities.
Archival Collection
Halloween Party, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1997 October, image 22
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Picnic, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1990s (folder 1 of 1), image 22
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Christmas party, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1991 December, (folder 1 of 3), image 22
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Christmas party, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1991 December, (folder 2 of 3), image 22
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