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Booths and people at Sunset Park for Gay Pride, image 010: photographic print
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Gay Pride at Sunset Park, 1998. Photographer: Dennis McBride (4-25-98)
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Jimmy Gay oral history interview: audio clip
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Jimmy Gay discusses racism in Las Vegas before and after World War II. He says that prior to WWII, there wasn't a lot of prejudice, and there were only a few African American families. After WWII, he says that the influx of soldiers returning and the migration of Black families from the South led to Las Vegas becoming the "Mississippi of the West."
Sound
Gay Community Yellow Pages booth at Gay Pride: photographic print, 1997 May 10
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 037
Archival Component
Nevada Gay Rodeo Association booth at Gay Pride: photographic print, 1997 May 10
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 037
Archival Component
Members of the Lesbian and Gay Academic Union gathered on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. Sue Chaney, Alan Wells, and Sue Chaney's son, Cory Chaney (identified from left to right): photographic slide, 1983 September
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Christie Young Papers
Box/Folder: Box 02
Archival Component
Gay Kauffman Nevada Test Site Papers
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Abstract
The collection includes materials from the Nevada Test Site (1955-1967) including newsletters published by the Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co., Inc. and photographs of Southern Nevada flora, fauna, and archaeology. It also includes photographs of test explosions at the Nevada Test Site, as well as photographs documenting a visit from North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials and a visit from John F. Kennedy to the Nevada Test Site. The collection also contains an oversized poster of an atomic explosion and one of a nuclear rocket development station.
Archival Collection
Slide of Sheriff Sam Gay, Las Vegas, circa 1906-1920s
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Archival Collection
Description
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David Bryan and David Erickson holding hands at Gay Pride: photographic print
Date
Archival Collection
Description
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Unidentified people at the Unitarian Universalist Church booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
I.J. Travel float in the second annual Gay Pride parade: photographic print
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image