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Coleen York Wilson oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Coleen York Wilson conducted by Claytee D. White on June 4, 1996 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Wilson talks about growing up in Fordyce, Arkansas before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1953 at the age of eighteen. She mentions that her parents had moved to Nevada in 1940 to work at Basic Magnesium, Incorporated (BMI), living in a trailer before returning to Fordyce two years later. She then discusses moving to Las Vegas to join an older sister and relates that she did not remember any discrimination in seating or eating meals during her bus trip. After this, Wilson lists the jobs she held in Las Vegas before her retirement in 1984, including work at the Las Vegas Cleaners, serving as a school crossing guard, and working as a housekeeping supervisor at the Stardust Resort Hotel, the Hacienda Resort Hotel, and Circus Circus Hotel and Casino before taking a job at the Nevada Test Site. She also talks about her family, her church activities, and her regret at not attending college.
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New York Times articles: photographic slide
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From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). From Slides #1550 through 1557. Newspaper title text: “U.S. Warns Soviets It May Drop Curb on Atomic Tests.”.
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New York Times articles: photographic slide
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From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). From Slides #1550 through 1557. Newspaper title text: “Atom Blast in Russia Disclosed; Truman Again Asks U.N. Control; Vishinsky Proposes a Peace Pact”.
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Howard Hughes Center, Los Angeles, California, assessment district, 1986 April 01 to 1986 July 16
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Collection Name: Thomas L. Morgan Real Estate Development Records
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Crowd of Hughes Tool Company employees holds a welcome rally for Howard Hughes in Houston, Texas, 1938 July 30
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 06
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Howard Hughes being interviewed by media before beginning his around-the-world flight attempt, 1938 July 10
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 06
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Howard Hughes in the cockpit of the new XF-11 reconnaissance plane preparing for its first flight, 1946 July 07
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 01
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UNLV Cheerleader Kassidy Howard poses July 29, 2011 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas: digital photographs
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Howard Hughes leaves Newark, New Jersey Airport with party en route to Washington, D.C., 1938 July 21
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13
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Crowd pressing forward for a glimpse of Howard Hughes as he arrived at Washington Airport in an American Airliner, 1938 July 21
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13
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