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Transcript of interview with Gwen Walker by Claytee White, July 15, 2014
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Gwendolyn K. Walker arrived in North Las Vegas in 1962 from Houston, Texas, as a five-year-old with her parents, two brothers, and her cousins. The Walker family at first moved to a rented house on D Street, and Gwen attended Kit Carson Elementary School for first grade. Her mother enrolled in nursing school, so she sent Gwen back to Delhi, Louisiana, to be raised by her grandmother. In Delhi Gwen picked cotton with her aunt while she was in the second grade. Gwen returned to North Las Vegas to live with her mother and complete elementary school at Jo Mackey before matriculating to J. D. Smith Elementary School for junior high school and then to Clark High School. Later she attended UNLV. Gwen and her mother joined Saint James Catholic Church at H Street and Washington Avenue, but after she returned from Delhi she joined Second Baptist Church, where she became close with a cohort of friends that remained strong even as she experienced racism and bullying and love for the first time.
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College of Education Tier 1 task force symposium and reception in Greenspun Hall on May 15, 2014: digital photographs
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Pearl Hughes oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Pearl Hughes conducted by Katherine D. Beal on February 11, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In the interview, Hughes discusses her family's early arrival to Las Vegas, Nevada after moving from Salinas, California. Her family then bought and operated a motel in North Las Vegas, Nevada between the late 1940s to 1950. Hughes also discusses the growth of the hotel and casino industry, city urban development, community interactions, Las Vegas, Nevada celebrities, atomic testing, and President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
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Howard Hughes' repurchase of Jet Pilot and The Conqueror from General Teleradio newspaper clipping, 1956 January 05
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 422 (Restrictions apply)
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Howard Hughes standing in front of his biplane holding a trophy after winning the 1934 All-American Air Meet in Miami, Florida, 1934
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 07
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Photograph of a blimp advertising Hughes' "The Outlaw," circa 1946
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Photograph of a blimp advertising Hughes' "The Outlaw," circa 1946
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Photograph of a blimp advertising Hughes' "The Outlaw," circa 1946
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Photograph of a blimp advertising Hughes' "The Outlaw," circa 1946
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#67640: New Turf on Rebel Park Practice Fields, 2010 July 15
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Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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