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Department of Water and Power Building: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Transcript of bus tour of "Jewish Las Vegas" by Temple Beth Sholom, May 17, 2015
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Archival Collection
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Temple Beth Sholom organized and led a bus tour of parts of Las Vegas that are significant in local Jewish history. Stops on the tour included Woodlawn Cemetery and the former Temple Beth Sholom campus on Oakey Boulevard. Narrator Arlene Blut gives the overview of the Jewish community, and Rabbi Felipe Goodman talks to tour participants at the cemetery. Former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman speaks at the old synagogue along with Josh Abbey, whose mother created the stained glass windows at the temple.
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orthographic projections (images)
drawings, prints, or other media in which the projectors are perpendicular to the plane of projection (drawing surface), that is, a three-dimensional object is shown fully frontally at all points, with no indication of recession into depth
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Transcript of interview with Mike and Susan Baller by Barbara Tabach, March 16, 2016
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Archival Collection
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In this interview, Mike and Susan Baller reflect upon their lives in Las Vegas, from growing up as teenagers amongst the tight-knit Jewish community, to mob influence on the city, and the impact of the city's growth. Mike shares stories about first arriving in Las Vegas to live, being a teenaged busboy at Binions Horseshoe to being related to Moe Dalitz -- in Michigan Mike drove a truck for the Dalitz dry cleaning business.
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Photograph of a panoramic view of the Pioche and Ely Mountains, Pioche (Nev.), 1872
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Archival Collection
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