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Las Vegas Raiders Stadium (Allegiant Stadium), 2018 October 30 to 2020 February 07
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This part of the collection was photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photograph series documents ongoing construction work at the Allegiant Stadium site.
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Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada
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Coleen York Wilson oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Coleen York Wilson conducted by Claytee D. White on June 4, 1996 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Wilson talks about growing up in Fordyce, Arkansas before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1953 at the age of eighteen. She mentions that her parents had moved to Nevada in 1940 to work at Basic Magnesium, Incorporated (BMI), living in a trailer before returning to Fordyce two years later. She then discusses moving to Las Vegas to join an older sister and relates that she did not remember any discrimination in seating or eating meals during her bus trip. After this, Wilson lists the jobs she held in Las Vegas before her retirement in 1984, including work at the Las Vegas Cleaners, serving as a school crossing guard, and working as a housekeeping supervisor at the Stardust Resort Hotel, the Hacienda Resort Hotel, and Circus Circus Hotel and Casino before taking a job at the Nevada Test Site. She also talks about her family, her church activities, and her regret at not attending college.
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