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Photograph of Dale and Dorothy with bales of cotton, Pahrump (Nev.), 1950-1955
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Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt, Beldon Katleman, and Pearl Bailey, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950s
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Photograph of Joe Lewis, Beldon Katleman, and Eleanor Roosevelt, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1950s
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Central Canada Exhibition Association
Taken from Wiki Page: "Ottawa SuperEX (officially the Central Canada Exhibition) was an eleven-day annual exhibition that took place every August at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The exhibition provided exhibits, entertainment and amusements indoors in the buildings on site and outdoors on the grounds. The Central Canada Exhibition Association operated a fair annually from 1888 until 2010, except during World War II.
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Brownlee, Robert Rex, 1924-
Robert Rex Brownlee was born on March 4, 1924, in Zenith Kansas. Robert married Addie Leah Brownlee on October 23, 1943, and they had five children: Jeanna, Nancy, Wayne, Wenda, and Wendall.
Brownlee was employed as Divison Leader of the Test Division at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) as part of his affiliation with the Nevada Test Site. Brownlee retired from the Los Alamos National Lab (1955 to 1992).
Brownless has obtained a bachelor of arts degree, master of arts degree, and a doctor of philosophy degree.
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Woodruff, Seth R., Jr.
On 18 May 1955, Seth R. Woodruff Jr., manager of the AEC Las Vegas Field Office, announced that he had "instructed the Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Co., Inc.
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Broudy, Charles A. (-1977)
United States Marine Major Charles A. Broudy served in WWII as a pilot in the Pacific theater. He was among the first to land in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombs were dropped. He was attending radiological school in San Francisco, California when he met his future wife, Alice Patricia "Pat" Sutton. After a whirlwind courtship, they married in 1949. Major Broudy served in the Korean War and then was stationed at El Toro Marine Base in Irvine, California.
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Amie, Curtis Rufus, Sr., 1927-
Curtis Rufus Amie, Sr. was born April 27, 1927 in Marshall, Texas.
Amie made it through eleventh grade and then graduated miner's training school to become a miner. Amie was the first African-American driller and blaster at the Nevada Test Site. He retired in 1978.
He was a Boy Scout Troop Leader for Troop #67 from 1958 to 1965.
He owned a Dairy Queen franchise store from 1973 to 1982.
Amie was an United States Army Sargent from 1946 to 1949 with an honorable discharge.
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Leonard, Cheryl
Cheryl Leonard was born October 31, 1944 and lived briefly in Sun Valley, California before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1945. After attending local elementary and middle schools, she started at Rancho High School during the day, and worked at the Huntridge Theater in the evenings and during the summer.
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Ortwein, O. Dennis
Dennis Ortwein was raised in a small town in Montana called Harlowton, the second oldest of seven children. He arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956. Once in Las Vegas, Ortwein taught for a while, served as principal, and was involved in creating programs that helped integrate schools. He was also involved with his church choir, the entertainment industry in early Las Vegas, above-ground testing at the Nevada Test Site, and anti-nuclear protests.
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