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Linda Hartley oral history interview

Identifier

OH-00804

Abstract

Oral history interview with Linda Hartley conducted by Pauline Marchese on March 10, 1978 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. During the interview, the two discuss Hartley’s personal history, such as schools that she had attended and her recollection of local recreational activities. The two go on to talk about changes in crime, the environment, and briefly discuss a variety of issues at the time, including: segregated schools, prostitution, and effects of the Nevada Test Site.

Archival Collection

Roosevelt Toston oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01839

Abstract

Oral history interview with Roosevelt Toston conducted by Claytee D. White on July 11, 2006 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Toston discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1950s and his various careers at the Test Site, Bell Telephone of Nevada, as a television anchorman and cameraman, and the Convention and Visitors Authority to bring conventions to Las Vegas. He also talks about ways African American entrepreneurs might get involved in the convention business.

Archival Collection

Lake, Spud

Robert E. "Spud" Lake was a Las Vegas pioneer and civic developer for whom an elementary school was named. He was born in 1857 in Illinois. He married Mary Ellen Osborn in Missouri in 1885, and they moved to Ontario, Canada, before eventually settling in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1904. He started a barbershop for railroad workers and other settlers in the area. Lake participated in the land auction for the Las Vegas town site and purchased two parcels. The first school was built on one of his parcels; and he served as the first president of the school board, and later as a trustee.

Person

Sands Hotel architecture: photographs

Date

1961 to 1968

Description

Series VIII. Sands Hotel Interior and Exterior

Sands Hotel and Casino

Mixed Content

Expansion of the Sands Hotel property: newspapers clippings and correspondence

Date

1961 to 1968

Description

Series VIII. Sands Hotel Interior and Exterior

Sands Hotel and Casino

Mixed Content

Sands Hotel new building: photographs

Date

1961

Description

Series VIII. Sands Hotel Interior and Exterior

Sands Hotel and Casino

Mixed Content

Photograph of a street scene and Fremont Street businesses, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1915

Date

1915

Description

Site Name: Fremont Street (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Image

Photograph of a man on horseback in front of the Moapa Post Office, Moapa (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Site Name: Moapa Post Office (Moapa, Nev.)

Image

Photograph of a wagon outside opera house in Pioche (Nev.), 1914

Date

1914

Description

Site Name: Thompson's Opera House (Pioche, Nev.)

Image

Photograph of men posing on the steps of the Lincoln County Courthouse, Pioche (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1920

Description

Site Name: Lincoln County Courthouse (Pioche, Nev.)

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