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Jewish Federation correspondence, meeting minutes, and other records, item 33
Description
Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Board of Directors meeting minutes, June 7, 1989.
Turbulent Waters: Brokering a Secure World, a conference on water law and policy held inside the Moot Court at the Boyd School of Law: digital photographs
Date
2016-01-29
Archival Collection
Description
Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05). Speakers included Dan Hamilton, Dean of the Boyd School of Law, Pat Mulroy, Senior Fellow for Climate Adaptation and Environmental Policy, Brookings Institution/Boyd Law School, Kelly Redmond, Research Professor of Climatology, Desert Research Institute and Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.
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Rainier Spencer oral history interview
Identifier
OH-02888
Abstract
Oral history interview with Rainier Spencer conducted by Sarah Buckner on April 27, 2015 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Spencer discusses his personal history and arriving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1997. He talks about his experience as a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and his involvement regarding diversity issues at UNLV. Spencer then discusses the novel
Archival Collection
Photograph of Nevada Southern University commencement, Las Vegas, 1967
Date
1967
Archival Collection
Description
Description provided with image: "Speaker General Mildren at the Nevada Southern University 4th annual commencement: Class of 1967." Individual Creator credit goes to Robert L. Lawson.
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Elbert B. Edwards oral history interview
Identifier
OH-00524
Abstract
Oral history interview with Elbert B. Edwards conducted by Dennis McBride on November 12, 1986 for the Boulder City Library Oral History Project. A Nevada native, Edwards recounts the development of the school system in Nevada, with specific details on Las Vegas and Boulder City. He discusses state education law, early school districts, difficulties with establishing primary and secondary education in Boulder City while it was a federal reservation and the number and quality of students who were bussed from Boulder City to Las Vegas to attend high school. He continues describing the effects of The Six Companies departure from Boulder City after Hoover Dam was completed and the efforts to establish a permanent school district in that community after 1937 and through the war years that followed.
Archival Collection
