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Program for Gay 90s Revue by Variety Club Number 39, November 1960
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Archival Collection
Description
This program has fundraising advertisements from community members, celebrities and performers in Las Vegas who supported the event that benefited the Variety Club.
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El Riata trail ride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.B. Ruud Family. El Riata was a horse training and riding club for the children of Pahrump, Nevada. Once each year the children went on a long ride, with a barbeque and overnight stay. Bob Ruud was chef; he would drive his cattle truck up, attach a tarp, cook, and let the smaller children sleep inside the truck.
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Las Vegas Variety Club Records
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The Las Vegas Variety Club Records (1950-1996) consist of newspaper clippings and photographs that focus on the services the group provided to special needs children. Also included are several scrapbooks documenting the organization’s major activities in the 1950s and 1960s.
Archival Collection
Tina and So Lin Kwan oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Tina and So Lin Kwan conducted by Cecilia Winchell and Stefani Evans on November 6, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project.
Tina Kwan and her mother, So Lin, discuss their family's history within Guangzhou, China and the United States. So Lin shares how her siblings immigrated to the United States and sponsored the rest of their family to join them in Las Vegas. Tina, So Lin's daughter, discusses her educational career pursuing medicine with degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno; the University of Arizona; and with a fellowship at Arkansas Children's Hospital before joining Children's Heart Center Nevada where she is a pediatric cardiologist. Tina and So Lin talk about the Kwan's restaurant, the Fortune Inn Restaurant, which was open for 15 years and closed in 2005. They also discuss Chinese superstitions and customs, diversity within Southern Nevada, anti-Asian discrimination, and learning English as a second language.
Archival Collection
Set of photographs including graduation at Kit Carson and Madison, Otis Harris at Marble Manor
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Archival Collection
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Photographer's notations: 8-68, Headstart graduation at Kit Carson & Madison, Otis Harris at Marble Manor talking to ADC mothers.
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Audio clip from interview with Henry and Anita Schuster by Claytee White, March 1, 2011
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview with Henry and Anita Schuster on March-April 2011. In this clip, the Schuster's discuss childhood, family, and life during the rise of Nazi power.
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Unidentified individuals, image 005
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Audio clip from interview with Hermina Washington, March 2, 2013
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Archival Collection
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In this clip, Hermina describes her family roots and early schooling in Las Vegas.
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Billy Eckstine recording, 1987 August 07
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Scope and Contents
Eckstine talks about his career, his bands switch from be-bop to pure jazz, the state of early Las Vegas entertainment, and his family and children.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Arnold Shaw Interviews and Performance Recordings
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
Archival Component