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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Theta Omega Chapter 72nd regional conference delegate reports

Date

2001-09-08
2001-06-15

Description

From the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Theta Theta Omega Chapter Records (MS-01014) -- Chapter records file.

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Photograph of Fire Chief George Rambo presenting a certificate of appreciation to Lt. Governor Paul Laxalt, North Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2, 1966

Date

1966-06-02

Description

Fire Chief George Rambo (right) presents a certificate of appreciation to Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt, guest speaker at North Las Vegas Lions Club, North Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2, 1966.

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Painting titled "The Navajo Gamblers" by E.A. Burbank: photographic print

Date

1897 (year approximate) to 1911 (year approximate)

Description

From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). Photograph of a painting titled "The Navajo Gamblers", by E.A. Burbank. For fifteen years he lived among 125 different tribes of North American Indians, painting their pictures and studying them at close range. This shows a group of Navajo men playing "Koon Can", a favorite pastime of the Navajo.

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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Theta Omega Chapter economic committee reports

Date

2000-01-08
2000-10-07
2000-12-02

Description

From the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Theta Theta Omega Chapter Records (MS-01014) -- Chapter records file.

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Photograph of dedication/cornerstone ceremony, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, October 07, 1984

Date

1984-10-07

Description

Moya O. Lear, keynote speaker at the Frank and Estella Beam Hall dedication ceremony, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She was the President of Learavia Corp., Reno, and the widow of William Lear who developed the Lear Jet.

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Lorraine Longhi oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03892

Abstract

Oral history interview with Lorraine Longhi conducted by Stefani Evans on March 31, 2023 for the Reflections: the Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Longhi recalls growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada through eigth grade until she moved to Arizona. After graduating from high school and Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Longhi worked for the Arizona Republic newspaper, where she covered education and city government. Longhi identifes as mixed race and speaks of a Las Vegas childhood punctuated with annual visits to her father's family in Yonkers, New York, and her mother's Taiwanese family in Taipei. In this interview, she discusses favorite Taiwanese and Italian foods she remembers from her childhood, and memories of cultural festivals at Chinatown Plaza. She also recalls first experiencing questions about her personal identity in Arizona, remarking in retrospect on the diversity of her childhood in Las Vegas. Longhi returned to Las Vegas in March 2022 to begin work as assistant city editor at the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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