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Lupe Avelar oral history interview: transcript
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Archival Collection
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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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Will Provance oral history interview
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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.
Archival Collection
Lock, Stock, and Leather booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Louis Levin and Raul Mangubat at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Paradise Dollar Theater in the Gay Pride parade: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Booths and people at Sunset Park for Gay Pride, image 009: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Gay Pride 1998 at Sunset Park. Photographer: Dennis McBride.
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M-P files including Mellon/NEH grants, oral history projects, Peer Coach program, NSHE libraries study, 2005-2010
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: University of Nevada Las Vegas Dean of Libraries Records
Box/Folder: Box 05 (Restrictions apply)
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Raul Mangubat and Dave Hoemann at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Chuck Degarmo oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Chuck Degarmo conducted by Stefani Evans on January 13, 2017 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. Also present during the interview was Po-Sun Chen. Degarmo discusses his childhood, his early interest in landscaping, and obtaining his Bachelors of Science degree in Ornamental Horticulture at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; with a concentration in Landscape Construction. Degarmo and Chen give their history in landscape construction, maintenance, development, and its intersection with ValleyCrest Landscape Development (now BrightView). They then explain how they landscaped some the largest hotel properties on the Las Vegas Strip, Summerlin Parkway, and Station Casinos.
Archival Collection
Washington's birthday at the Hotel Atlas, menu, Friday, February 22, 1901
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Archival Collection
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