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Construction along Fremont Street East in front of the El Cortez hotel and casino, looking northwest in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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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 landscape improvements along Fremont Street East in downtown Las Vegas.
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Construction along Fremont Street East in front of the Griffin bar, looking east in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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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 landscape improvements along Fremont Street East in downtown Las Vegas.
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Edmund Uehling and Marlon Tinana oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Edmund Uehling and Marlon Tinana conducted by Dennis McBride on March 14, 21, and 22, 2000 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. In the first interview, Uehling discusses his early life in Boulder City, Nevada, his time as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, becoming aware of his sexuality, and his involvement with the founding of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada in 1992. In the second interview, Uehling and Tinana discuss investing in Las Vegas, Nevada gay community real estate beginning in 1988. They also discuss purchasing and managing business properties, including the Gipsy and The Cave nightclubs. In the third interview, Uehling and Tinana recall Uehling's attempt at running for Clark County, Nevada Sheriff in 1994 and memories of confronting police while managing their business properties. Finally, they discuss managing Bright Pink Literature bookstore (later known as Get Booked).
Archival Collection
Biography of West written by Epic Records (New York), June 17-19, 1968
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Archival Collection
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Mixed Content
Biography of Maxine Brown written by Epic Records (New York), June 17-19, 1968
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Archival Collection
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Newsletter, "The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly: management ideas for key executives," August 1963, Volume 71, Number 845
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Archival Collection
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Tweet identifiers, 2017
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Archival Collection
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This dataset contains the identifiers for the Tweets in the full dataset in accordance with Twitter's Terms of Service for public distribution. All JSON files in the dataset are sorted chronologically. Tweet identifiers are open to the public and are available online at: https://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d12v2ch23. The Tweet identifiers can be used to retrieve the full Tweet data from Twitter. Hydrator, an Electron based desktop application was created for that purpose. Users can download Hydrator at the following URL: https://github.com/DocNow/hydrator.
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Su Kim Chung oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Su Kim Chung conducted by Claytee White on March 11, 2021 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project.
Su Kim Chung is the Public Services Department Head of University of Nevada, Las Vegas Lied Library's Special Collections and Archives. This interview was conducted in part for the 20th year celebration of Lied Library. Su Kim first talks about the construction of Lied Library and what makes it special compared to the previous library building on campus. She then discusses her personal history and education that led her to UNLV, where she has now worked for 22 years. Her work involves manuscript curation, panel discussions with Las Vegas entertainers, and oral history collection among other activities. She has also written a book, Las Vegas Then and Now, that talks of the city's rich entertainment history.
Archival Collection
Memo from Bea Ratliffe (Sands Hotel, Reservations Office) to Jack Entratter, circa May 1956 - May 1959
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Archival Collection
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Advertisements for The Sands, Desert Inn, and Frontier in Las Vegas, circa 1968
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Archival Collection
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Mixed Content