From the Clark County Economic Opportunity Board Records -- Series II: Projects. This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to Project Head Start between May 1965-December 1967.
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Oral history interview with Bess Hanson conducted by Debra Puepke on February 25, 1971 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project. In her interview Hanson discusses growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada and raising a family there.
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Oral history interview with Pat Feaster conducted by Claytee D. White on July 1, 1996 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Feaster relates how her mother made the decision to leave Fordyce, Arkansas for better economic opportunity and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1942. She describes travelling across the country, living in a one-room structure in the Westside of Las Vegas, and attending the Westside School. She discusses her mother's employment at the Red Rooster Restaurant and then at the Algiers Hotel. She talks at length about her own educational journey after leaving school at fifteen, then returning for her GED and later, a college degree after the birth of her fifth child. She discusses how the decision to improve her education helped her develop a twenty-six year career at the Clark County Health District. She also discusses the Fordyce Club and many important personalities in Las Vegas' Black community.
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The project files series contains J.A. Tiberti Construction Las Vegas, Nevada project specifications, correspondence, corporate pay requests, contracts, and project documents describing their design and development processes between 1964 and 1990.
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Oral history interview with Joeseph L. Haughaboo conducted by James F. Haughaboo on April 01, 1976 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. The two discuss Haughaboo’s personal family history, his occupational history, and Mr. Haughaboo’s observations of Las Vegas city life since he moved to the state in 1953.
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The project records series (1989-2007) are comprised of project documents created and collected by the American architecture firms of Welles Pugsley Architects and Leo A Daly Architects for the design and construction of Lied Library at UNLV. The series also contains material collected by UNLV Libraries such as furniture catalogs and library space usage studies. The series include architectural drawings, artist renderings, photographic prints, project manuals, progress reports, and project correspondence. The records also contain commemorative items from the groundbreaking ceremony.
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