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Audio clips from interview with Ruth Urban, August 24, 2015 and September 16, 2015
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Archival Collection
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In these clips Ruth Urban discusses how she came to live in Las Vegas, Nevada and her time as the Jewish Family Services President.
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Sparer, Jon
Jon Sparer is an architect in Las Vegas, Nevada who has worked on numerous hotels and casinos. He moved to Las Vegas in July 1981 and worked for the architecture firm Rissman and Rissman before joining Marnell Corrao. After briefly retiring in 1999, Sparer opened his own architecture firm and was contacted by Congregation Ner Tamid (of which he was a casual member) to design their new temple in Green Valley. Jon was married to another successful architect, John Klai. Both were very instrumental in the opening of The Center.
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Photograph of donations to Special Collections, Las Vegas, 7/12/77
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Photograph of donations to Special Collections, Las Vegas, 7/12/77
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Wilson, Woodrow, 1915-1999
Woodrow Wilson was born in Morton, Mississippi on August 28, 1915. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1932. He worked at the Basic Magnesium plant, was the first African American Nevada Assemblyman elected in 1966, and served as president of the Las Vegas chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples.
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Sue Fawn Chung Collection on Asians in Nevada
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The Sue Fawn Chung Collection on Asians in Nevada (1963-2015) consists of materials collected by Dr. Sue Fawn Chung in the course of her research on the history of Asians in Nevada. The collection contains interviews, correspondence, and biographical materials primarily focusing on Chinese and Japanese residents in Nevada, but also includes other communities such as Filipinos and Koreans. Some materials are photocopies of original documents and photographs dating between 1913 and 1960.
Archival Collection
NNA digital photographs, 2006 October 01
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: History of Nursing in Southern Nevada Oral History Project Records
Box/Folder: Box 03, Digital File 00
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