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Leavitt, Relda W., 1917-1997
Relda Whitney Leavitt was born in Saint Thomas, Nevada on April 3, 1917 to Stowell Edward Whitney and Anna Isabel Frehner. She married Len R. Leavitt on August 17, 1938. They had one son, Len Randall Leavitt in 1939. Relda Leavitt died on March 12, 1997.
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Genealogy files about "Relda Whitney."Accessed on March 31, 2020 on FamilySearch.org.
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Letter from Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce to R. H. Rutledge (Washington, D.C.), with petition by Moapa Valley residents, June 1939
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Archival Collection
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Letter dated June 27, 1939, from the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce supporting a petition date June 21, 1939, by property owners and taxpayers living in the Moapa Valley area of Clark County, Nevada. The petition requested that the area be placed under the control of the Division of Grazing. Such a designation would restrict the removal of timber from watershed areas and help prevent the effects of erosion due to flooding. According to the Bureau of Land Management, Grazing District No. 5 is Las Vegas, established November 3, 1936.
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Frank Wright, Richard Bryan, and Thomas J. Hickey panel discussion
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Panel discussion entitled Las Vegas: Past, Present, Future with Frank Wright, Richard Bryan, and Thomas J. Hickey moderated by Robert Tracy on January 11, 2002 for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) of Nevada annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this discussion, the three panelists discuss Las Vegas' past and the history that both created the city and informs public opinion about it, the present and the challenges the growing city faces socially and economically, and the potential future directions the city might take to ensure continued prosperity. The discussion began with the panelists presenting prepared remarks and continued to an extended question and answer session with the meeting attendees.
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Cole, Nelda, 1915-1987
Nelda Powell Robinson was born in Kingsville, Texas in 1915, the daughter of Rudell Powell and Allie Robinson. She married Charles Wayne Cole in 1938. After Charles Cole died in 1970, Nelda Cole moved to Nevada where she met and later married Joseph Baran in 1980.
Nelda Cole died on October 3, 1987 in Overton, Nevada.
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Genealogy files about "Nelda Cole" and "Nelda Robinson." Accessed on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org
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Photograph of Regents, Las Vegas, 1950s - 1960s
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Archival Collection
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Photographs of Frontier "sold" and other miscellaneous events, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1990s (folder 1 of 1)
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Archival Collection
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Arrangement note: Series I. Demonstrations, Subseries I.A. Frontier Strike
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