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Las Vegas United Jewish Appeal "ONLY if you've ever loved a child..." poster, 1953-1959

Date

1953 to 1959

Description

ONLY if you've ever loved a child... poster from the Las Vegas United Jewish Appeal asking for contributions to aid Jewish refugees. Text across the front reads: "ONLY if you've ever loved a child... - can you understand young tears - can you see life's very first heartache! TODAY is an EMERGENCY for 200,000 Jewish children in troubled lands overseas - they are crying - they are lonely - and they need help. Only you can still the tears - only you can light their way to new homes, loving homes, filled with affection and warmth - only in Israel will these children find their Second Chance to live again! Your contribution to the Emergency Rescue Fund for $100,000,000 can help these children - 45,000 of them in North African ghettos alone - to a new home, a new life of Israel. GIVE TODAY - ANOTHER CHILD MAY LIVE TODAY! Las Vegas United Jewish Appeal Post Office Box 1981 Las Vegas, Nevada. Carl Cohen, chairman/Co-chairmen: Moe Dalitz and Jacob Kozloff/Nevada State Chairman: Edward Levinson"

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Photograph of Jimmy Durante, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1970s

Date

1970 to 1979

Description

Jimmy Durante (left) with unidentified veteran and group of children.

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Photograph of a Carson Indian School, Stewart (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1920

Description

Transcribed from photograph, "Washo - 7. Many Washo children attended the Carson Indian School at Stewart, Nevada. This school, originally established for the Washo, was later attended by the other Nevada tribes. Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada."

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Biographical essay by Miriam Zaidman Borowsky, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Miriam Ziadman Borowsky's family moved from Palenstine to France in 1938, where her father surrendered to the Nazis and was sent to the Drancy internment camp. She recounts the rift in her family after she realized her father was not returning. Her essay includes photographs of her family and documents related to her father's military career.

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Photograph of a class from the Fifth Street School, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1936-1946

Date

1936 to 1946

Description

A class from the Fifth Street School (Officially called the Las Vegas Grammar School). On photo sleeve: "School program, Fifth Street School. One of the children is Robert Rivero." Site Name: Las Vegas Grammar School (Las Vegas, Nev.) Street Address: 401 South Las Vegas Boulevard

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Photograph of funeral procession lined up outside schoolhouse, Tonopah (Nev.), February 1907

Date

1907-02

Description

Children line up outside schoolhouse for funeral procession for Orley Wardle. The children all wear coats and hats, and many are wearing all black. Included with photograph is a Xerox of a letter to Dr. Elizabeth Patrick from Luella and Austin [Wardle?], dated May 19, 1982. Letter says that Austin's brother's name was Orley R. Wardle and he was born in Park City, Utah in 1899. Orley passed away at the age of 8 years old on February 11, 1907 from spinal menengitis. Luella said that many died from the same sickness that winter.

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Film transparency of fish and a fishing boat, Lake Mead, circa 1934-1950s

Date

1934 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

Smiling in contentment, a man and two children gaze upon a string of fish they captured after a fishing trip on the waters of Lake Mead. Transcribed on the side of the boat: "Sailfish Lake Mead."

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Film transparency of a schoolhouse, Paradise Valley, Las Vegas region, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1939

Description

Black and white image of several school children in front of a school house in Paradise Valley near Las Vegas, Nevada. Handwritten text on image reads: "My first school in Paradise." Note: Image is from a family photo album that was loaned to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and returned to the family on July 17, 1984.

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Slide of a cottage built by Six Companies, Boulder City, Nevada, January 1, 1932

Date

1932-01-01

Description

Black and white image of children sitting in the yard of a cottage (similar to 450 others in the area) built by Six Companies, Inc. for their married employees in Boulder City. Many residents planted cactus and other shrubs indigenous to the area in their yards.

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Film transparency of Las Vegas High School, Las Vegas, February 22, 1930

Date

1930-02-22

Description

Unidentified children carrying flags and signs at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the new Las Vegas High School in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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