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CSN AAPI Heritage Committee: archived website, 2022

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Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American & Pacific Islander Web Archive
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Collection Number: MS-01112
Collection Name: Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American & Pacific Islander Web Archive
Box/Folder: N/A

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Asian Cultural Alliance: archived website, 2022 to 2023

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Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American & Pacific Islander Web Archive
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Collection Number: MS-01112
Collection Name: Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American & Pacific Islander Web Archive
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"Namesake" Wayne N. Tanaka: archived website, 2022

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Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American & Pacific Islander Web Archive
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Collection Number: MS-01112
Collection Name: Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American & Pacific Islander Web Archive
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Las Vegas News: archived website, 2022 to 2023

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Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American & Pacific Islander Web Archive
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Collection Number: MS-01112
Collection Name: Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American & Pacific Islander Web Archive
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Juliana Chen showreel videos: archived website, 2022

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Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American & Pacific Islander Web Archive
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Collection Number: MS-01112
Collection Name: Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American & Pacific Islander Web Archive
Box/Folder: N/A

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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.

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Will Provance oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02745

Abstract

Oral history interview with Will Provance conducted by David Schwartz on July 14, 2016 for the Slot Operations Oral History Project. Provance discusses his various roles in the gaming industry the difference between managing slot machines in his earlier positions and video lottery terminals (VLTs) in his current position in Ohio. He also discusses what he believes makes a good slot floor and how slot operations has changed since he started in the industry.

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Lupe Avelar oral history interview: transcript

Date

2019-02-25

Description

Oral history interview with Lupe Avelar conducted by Marcela Rodriguez-Campo and Maribel Estrada Calderón for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Lupe Avelar describes her life growing up in Durango, Mexico on a family farm and her immigration to New Mexico as a teen with her brother before returning back to Mexico. Lupe talks about her marriage to Eladio Avelar and how the couple eventually moved to California as well as her circumstances of moving to Las Vegas. Subjects discussed include: cotton fields; cotton farming.

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Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. company archives inventory, 1997

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File

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Harrah’s Entertainment Corporate Archives
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Collection Number: MS-00460
Collection Name: Harrah’s Entertainment Corporate Archives
Box/Folder: Box 096

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