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Vegas Seven: archived website, 2017

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Other Level

Archival Collection

Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada

Archival Component

LVCVA Newsroom: archived website, 2017

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Archival Collection

Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada

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Lori Lipman Brown oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02537

Abstract

Oral history interview with Lori Lipman Brown conducted by Dennis McBride on September 12, 2005 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. In this interview, Brown discusses Question 2 in the Nevada state elections of 2000 and 2002, which added an amendment to the Nevada constitution that banned same-sex marriage. Brown describes the process of introducing legislation that advocated for equal rights for the gay community and an incident where parties opposing her efforts hired a spy to observe her work. Lastly, Brown talks about the involvement of the Church of Latter-Day Saints and their opposition to same-sex marriage.

Archival Collection

Classroom of Compassion: archived website, 2024

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Archival Collection

UNLV December 6, 2023 Memorial Collection

Archival Component

Vegas and the Virus: archived website, 2020

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Other Level

Archival Collection

UNLV Libraries Collection of Digital Communication about COVID-19 in Las Vegas

Archival Component

Zoe Allison oral history interview

Identifier

OH-00030

Abstract

Oral history interview with Zoe Allison conducted by Debra Ruth on February 21, 1979 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Allison discusses her career with Central Telephone Company, working at the Sahara Hotel as a switchboard operator, and owning a dress shop on Fremont Street. She also talks about notable locations such as Craig Road Speedway, Silver Slipper Race Track, Nellis Air Base and Mount Charleston, and the politics of prostitution in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Archival Collection

Susanne E. Morrow oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01338

Abstract

Oral history interview with Susanne E. Morrow conducted by Dennis McBride on September 29, 2000 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. Morrow begins by discussing her childhood in a military family, her marriage and children, and her move to Genoa, Nevada in 1961. She then talks about her move to Carson City, Nevada in 1962 and her twenty-nine year career as a journalist and city editor for the Nevada Appeal newspaper. The remainder of the interview focuses on Morrow's memories of the 1965 assault on then Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court, Frank McManee, and the subsequent judicial actions and court decisions that reflected attitudes toward homosexuality prevalent in society at the time.

Archival Collection

Crescent Dunes Solar Archive Documents

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File

Archival Collection

Jamey Stillings Photograph Collection

Archival Component

Archives and records: Finance division, 1989

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File

Archival Collection

Thomas Hickey Political Papers

Archival Component

Club Histories and Archives Project, 1987

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File

Archival Collection

Nevada Federation of Women's Clubs Records

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