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The Allegiant Stadium construction site along Dean Martin Drive, looking north-northwest in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo series documents ongoing construction work at the Allegiant Stadium.
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Parking for construction workers at the Allegiant Stadium construction site, looking south-southeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo series documents ongoing construction work at the Allegiant Stadium.
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People gather and view the crosses at the 1 October memorial located at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, looking east-northeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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Following the October 1, 2017 killing of 58 people at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, the Las Vegas community responded in a variety of ways. This series of photographs document the impromptu memorial created at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign.
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Geneva Stark Merwin oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Geneva Stark Merwin conducted by Elizabeth Nelson Patrick on August 24, 1983 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Merwin discusses her career and experiences as a teacher in Pahrump, Nevada after moving there in 1941. Merwin also discusses some of the people in the town and its layout. Merwin goes on to describe her teaching career in Las Vegas, Nevada after being recommended to the school board by Maude Frazier.
Archival Collection
Thomas McDonald oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Thomas McDonald conducted by Ted Papatheodorou on July 05, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, McDonald describes his experiences running a newspaper and a restaurant in Chicago, Illinois before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada to work as a manager at the Stardust Hotel and Casino. McDonald shares several short anecdotes, such as being thrown off of a freight train in 1915 in early Las Vegas, or serving then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson at his restaurant in Chicago.
Archival Collection
Faye Rhea Porter oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Faye Rhea Porter conducted by Barbara Tabach on June 13, 2012 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Porter discusses her father's employment at the Nevada Test Site. Porter talks about her father being unable to describe the type of work he did with family or friends and tells anecdotes about the secrecy of the test site. She then recalls her sister and her employment at the Nevada Test Site until an accident on the way to the site resulted in her death.
Archival Collection
Muriel Parks oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Muriel Parks conducted by Judy Drappo on February 26, 1979 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Parks discusses her personal history and the history of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Parks discusses her career working at UNLV as the Director of Admissions and Records, and how the university has changed over time. Parks also discusses the career of Maude Frazier and their personal relationship.
Archival Collection
Jennilee Thayer oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Jennilee Thayer conducted by Claytee D. White on August 12, 2009 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Thayer discusses arriving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1936 when it was still a mining town. She describes early Henderson, Nevada, attending Basic High School, and recalls her father’s employment at the Basic Magnesium Plant. Lastly, Thayer discusses her employment in show production, atomic bomb testing, and changes in Las Vegas.
Archival Collection
Dr. Joseph Rojas oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Dr. Joseph Rojas conducted by Suzanne Lubritz on February 25, 1980 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Rojas describes his career as a gynecologist in Las Vegas, Nevada after being stationed at Nellis Air Force Base as chief of OBGYN during his time enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. Rojas also discusses how health care and medicine has evolved in Las Vegas, and Nevada as a whole.
Archival Collection
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of the Vice President for Development and University Relations Records
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The records contain financial and budgetary information, correspondence, reports, University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus buildings and grounds planning, registrar and academic affairs information and memoranda created by the UNLV Office of the Vice President for Development and University Relations from 1967 to 1983. The records include information about the design and development of the Thomas and Mack Center. Budgets include administrative salaries, biennial budgets, and estimative budgets.
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