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The Experience booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Henry Shepherd oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Henry Shepherd conducted by Claytee D. White on October 22, 2014 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Shepherd discusses being an African-American bartender on the Las Vegas, Nevada Strip, hired as a result of the 1971 consent decree. He also recalls memories of Jackson Street, the homes in North Las Vegas, and the hotels in downtown Las Vegas and on the Strip.
Archival Collection
Game On! The Oral History of Las Vegas Sports Interviews
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The Game On! Oral History of Sports in Las Vegas interviews (2024-) contain all oral history interviews conducted by UNLV University Libraries Oral History Research Center. This project centers on documenting the history of sports in Las Vegas, including interviews discussing the earliest teams to the most recent champions. Interviews cover a wide array of sports including hockey, football, baseball, softball, auto racing, tennis, basketball, poker, boxing, rodeo, golf, running, esports, and more. Digital audio available for all interviews; check collection inventory for individual narrators and more detailed information on specific interviews.
Archival Collection
Vice President for Academic Affairs (FY 1978 Payroll History and Projection-Classified Staff), 1978
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of the Vice President for Business Affairs Records
Box/Folder: Box 44
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Michael Conarroe at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Elsie Whipple oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Elsie Whipple conducted by Hugo A. Cascos Jr. on March 22, 1978 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Whipple discusses Southern Nevada history and recalls the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Whipple also recalls the first hotels and casinos to open on the Las Vegas, Nevada Strip, and her work as a missionary with the Mormon Church.
Archival Collection
#66801: Innovations Magazine - Moehring, Eugene (History Professor), 2008 December 22
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2000s)
Box/Folder: N/A
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Lavell Jarrett oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Lavell Jarrett conducted by Robert B. Grzywacz on February 22, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In his interview Jarrett discusses his early life in Utah and his career with the Union Pacific Railroad.
Archival Collection
Las Vegas Gay Pride, advertising, 1998
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Strutt Hurley Collection on the Southern Nevada Association of Pride, Inc. (SNAPI) and Las Vegas Gay Pride
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Lawrence Weekly oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Lawrence Weekly conducted by Claytee D. White on April 22, 2013 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Lawrence Weekly discusses growing up on the Westside during the 1970s and 1980s, becoming a City Councilman starting in 1999, and becoming a Clark County Commission.
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