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Report on the water supply in Las Vegas, March 25, 1942
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Archival Collection
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Brief history of water in Las Vegas and overview of the water situation
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Photograph of Governors of Nevada plaque, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1960s-1970s
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Archival Collection
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Statement of Las Vegas accounts by H. I. Bettis, November 18, 1904
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Archival Collection
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Aplin, Charles W., 1887-1971
Charles William Aplin was born on March 30, 1887 to Amanda Jane and William Luther Aplin. He was raised in Southern California, where his father worked painting buildings. Charles first came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1904, and then returned with his family to settle permanently in Las Vegas in 1905. Charles and his father William established a painting business that same year. Charles went to Bakersfield, California in 1910 to work in the oil industry, and it was there that he joined the Fraternal Order of Eagles in 1911.
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Biographical essay by Shirley Weiss, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Shirley Weiss describes her childhood housed in army barracks in the ghetto in Beregszasz (Berehove), Hungary. She was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and several other camps, and eventually liberated from Terez?n in 1945. She came to the United States via Sweden.
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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie B. Clayton
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Archival Collection
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