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Ida Pinckney oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Ida Pinckney conducted by Claytee D. White on August 23, 2012 and November 05, 2012 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Pinckney discusses her personal history and life in Las Vegas, Nevada after moving there with her family as a child in 1942. She begins by talking about her family and living in a tent house in the Westside community of Las Vegas. Pinckney describes how she feels Westside development has been stunted by an overabundance of churches in the area not paying taxes, life in the Westside during the 1940s, and her experiences as an African American woman in Las Vegas. Other topics of discussion include Pinckney being a member of Culinary Workers Union Local 226, her father and brother working at the Nevada Test Site, and various aspects of Las Vegas history. Willie Jean Beatty also participates in the interview, helping Pinckney expand on topics such as the presence of organized crime in casinos and her involvement in the Sisters Network: An Afro-American Breast Cancer Survivors Organization.
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Tonopah and Tidewater Engine No. 9: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.G. Reidhead Family. Beatty Mountain is visible in the background.
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John Lisle oral history interview, 2013 March 13
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Lisle joined the Beatty, Nevada fire department in 1967 while still in college. He served in the ambulance service for seventeen years before retiring.
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Collection Name: History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada Oral History Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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People driving through cattle: photographic print
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Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
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The Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection contains photographs from Nye County, Nevada from 1880 to 1990. The collection includes a wide variety of photographs that document the activities, landmarks, geographical features, towns, ranches, and families of Nye County. The collection covers the areas of Amargosa Valley, Ash Meadows, Beatty, Duckwater, Gabbs, Goldfield, Kawich Mountains, Manhattan, Pahrump, Round Mountain, Rhyolite, Smoky Valley, Springdale, Tecopa, Tonopah, and Twin Springs. The activities documented include mining, prospecting, herding animals, schooling, ranching, building construction, railroad construction, and hunting and fishing.
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Postcard of Shoshone Native American woman named Aurora: photographic print
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A picture postcard that came out about 1937, featuring Aurora, a Shoshone Indian resident of Beatty, Nevada, who was very skilled at making baskets. From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.G. Reidhead Family
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Phinney home: photographic print
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Photograph of Jesse Christensen home, Bullfrog Hills (Nev.), early 1900s
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Caption: Home of Jesse Christensen. Beatty, Nevada, where he first saw her.
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Revert Family, 1904-1957
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Materials contain photographs from the Revert Family from 1904 to 1957, including photographs of the Revert brothers' 76 Station, the Exchange Club, the railroad depot in Rhyolite, Nevada, the Beatty, Nevada water system, ore specimens, and the stagecoach service.
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Collection Name: Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
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