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Transcript of interview with Francis E. Hughes by Mark E. French, February 23, 1977
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Archival Collection
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On February 23, 1977, collector Mark E. French interviewed local farmer, Francis E. Hughes (born March 9th, 1917 in Mesquite, Nevada) in his home in Mesquite, Nevada. This interview offers an overview of the general lifestyle and culture in Mesquite. Mr. Hughes mother, Orilla Leavitt, was born in Bunkerville, Nevada. Members of Mr. Hughes’s family were amongst the first settlers in the Mesquite area.
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Photograph of people surrounding the Lockheed 14 aircraft, New York, July 9, 1938
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Archival Collection
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Geraldine Kirk-Hughes oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Geraldine Kirk-Hughes conducted by Larry Sampson on November 28, 2014 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview Kirk-Hughes relates her birth and upbringing in Simmersport, Louisiana, becoming a teen mother, earning a GED and earning her first college degree before marrying and moving to Greece and Dubai. She then explains how she returned to the United States to earn her masters degree before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978. She discusses her second marriage, her decision to attend law school, and her decision to go into private practice instead of working for a law firm. She talks about cases she worked on, people in the community she knew, and the effects of discrimination on her work and career. She ends by talking about her third marriage and sharing thoughts on how the Las Vegas African American community has lost some of the cohesiveness and unity of earlier decades.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Senator Howard Cannon, North Las Vegas, December 1966
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Archival Collection
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L'il Lil [real name: Howard Benway] at the Silver Slipper Gambling Hall & Saloon Gaiety Theater: contact print, 1978 August 12
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Kenny Kerr Papers
Box/Folder: Box 05
Archival Component
L'il Lil [real name: Howard Benway] at the Silver Slipper Gambling Hall & Saloon Gaiety Theater: contact print, 1978 August 12
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Kenny Kerr Papers
Box/Folder: Box 05
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Howard Cannon luncheon with Hubert Humphrey: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Hughes Electronics corporate headquarters, 1997
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 08
Archival Component
Workers at Hughes Tool Company, 1951
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 08
Archival Component
Jesse Pearl Howard Johnson Manor, Nancy Howard Copley, Ollie Howard Lohr, and Mary Josephine Baxter Howard, Oregon, approximately 1906
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Josephine Johnson Foster Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
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