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Raiders logos adorn the fencing along the Allegiant Stadium construction site, looking southwest in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2019-01-28

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo series documents ongoing construction work at the Allegiant Stadium.

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Lavern Cummings and Tony Midnite oral history interview

Identifier

OH-00456

Abstract

Oral history interview with Lavern Cummings and Tony Midnite conducted by Dennis McBride on August 29, 2000 for the Las Vegas Gay Archives Oral History Project. In the interview, Cummings and Midnite discuss their work as female impersonators in Las Vegas, Nevada during the late 1960s and 1970s. They also talk about other impersonators and performance venues in Las Vegas and around the United States. They explain the distinctions between transgender and straight performers, and the perceptions of transgender and straight audience members. Other subjects Cummings and Midnite cover include their early lives and arrivals to Las Vegas, and the history of sex reassignment surgeries beginning in the 1930s.

Archival Collection

A crane in use at the Allegiant Stadium construction site, looking southwest in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2020-02-07

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at Allegiant Stadium.

Image

A crane in use at the Allegiant Stadium construction site, looking south in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2020-02-07

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at Allegiant Stadium.

Image

A crane in use at the Allegiant Stadium construction site, looking west in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2020-02-07

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at Allegiant Stadium.

Image

Allegiant Stadium under construction, looking east-northeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2020-02-07

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at Allegiant Stadium.

Image

The northeast cover of the Allegiant Stadium construction site, looking south-southeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2019-05-29

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at the Allegiant Stadium.

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Work continues on Allegiant Stadium, looking north-northwest in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2019-05-29

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at the Allegiant Stadium.

Image

Workers on the Allegiant Stadium construction site, looking north-west in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2019-05-29

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at the Allegiant Stadium.

Image

Workers on the Allegiant Stadium construction site, looking north in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2019-05-29

Description

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at the Allegiant Stadium.

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