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Photograph of Harold Hind, Betty Hind, and others seated around a table, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1940s
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Archival Collection
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Postcard of the Las Vegas Club, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1940s
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Archival Collection
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Newspaper article, Pioneer Las Vegan Sees Town Grow, Las Vegas Sun, February 9, 1965
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Archival Collection
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Newspaper article featuring Lucretia Stevens. She moved to Las Vegas in 1923 when the town was about six blocks square and about 60 people made up the black community.
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Meeting Minutes from the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Holocaust Education Committee Educators' Conference Subcommittee, March 22, 1994
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Archival Collection
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Meeting Minutes from the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Holocaust Education Committee Educators' Conference Subcommittee.
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The Boulder Dam Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, September 30, 1926
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Archival Collection
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Dorothy Wright oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Dorothy Wright conducted by Claytee Wright on April 23, 2015 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Wright opens her interview by discussing her parents and their upbringings. She then describes her father's time in the Marines during World War II and his death a few years later. Wright then talks about her stepfather and her family's move to Las Vegas, Nevada for her stepfather's job at the Nevada Test Site. Wright describes moving away from Las Vegas to attend college in Washington and, returning to Las Vegas in 1968. She talks about attending the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, working for the Nevada Humanities Committee, and active African American civic groups in the 1970s. Wright ends the interview highlighting some of the major Las Vegas projects she wrote grants for including the Neon Museum and the Welcome to Las Vegas Sign.
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Lily Teo oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Lily Teo conducted by Stefani Evans on February 7, 2022 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project.
Lily Teo discusses her upbringing in Singapore, her education, her religious beliefs, and converting from Buddhism to Catholicism. She talks about her husband, her early married years, and what life was like as a young mother of three children. Teo shares how she started a catering business to feed construction workers and was responsible for shopping for ingredients, preparing all meals and tea, and cooking the food on site in her temporary kitchen. She talks about her children, the faiths they practice and languages they speak including English, Malay, and Mandarin, and the customs and traditions they practice, such as celebrating Lunar New Year and other holidays. Lily's daughter, Stella, sits in on the interview and expands on her mother's recollections.
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Handbook of Thermodynamic Data - Geological Survey, 1974 January
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office Collection
Box/Folder: Box 77
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An Evaluation of Lithium Sorption Isotherms and their Application to Groundwater Transport, undated
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office Collection
Box/Folder: Box 96
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The Role of Siderophores in the Transport of Radionuclides, MRS, Proceedings Reprint, undated
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office Collection
Box/Folder: Box 96
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