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Photograph of people at Frank T. Crowe Memorial Park, Boulder City, Nevada, March 15, 1981
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Newspaper clipping, City lifts ban on daytime watering for 15-Day period, Las Vegas Sun, July 25, 1950
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Newspaper article informing the public that the Las Vegas City Commission lifted the restriction on daytime lawn watering for 15 days, with the commission calling on volunteerism for the time period.
Text
Photograph of Howard Hughes in New York, July 1938
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Resource Analysis Model of the Arkansas State Police by R. J. Melone, the New York City Rand Institute, 1970 October
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ardis Kearns Papers
Box/Folder: Box 16
Archival Component
Program Budgeting for School District Planning: Concepts and Applications by the New York City Rand Institute, 1969 November
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ardis Kearns Papers
Box/Folder: Box 19
Archival Component
New York City's Police: The Background and Performance of the Class of '57 by Bernard Cohen and Jan M. Chaiken, 1973 February
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ardis Kearns Papers
Box/Folder: Box 20
Archival Component
Dismissal of Narcotics Arrest Cases in the New York City Criminal Court, 1970 by Sydney C. Cooper, 1973 February
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ardis Kearns Papers
Box/Folder: Box 20
Archival Component
Coleen York Wilson oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Coleen York Wilson conducted by Claytee D. White on June 4, 1996 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Wilson talks about growing up in Fordyce, Arkansas before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1953 at the age of eighteen. She mentions that her parents had moved to Nevada in 1940 to work at Basic Magnesium, Incorporated (BMI), living in a trailer before returning to Fordyce two years later. She then discusses moving to Las Vegas to join an older sister and relates that she did not remember any discrimination in seating or eating meals during her bus trip. After this, Wilson lists the jobs she held in Las Vegas before her retirement in 1984, including work at the Las Vegas Cleaners, serving as a school crossing guard, and working as a housekeeping supervisor at the Stardust Resort Hotel, the Hacienda Resort Hotel, and Circus Circus Hotel and Casino before taking a job at the Nevada Test Site. She also talks about her family, her church activities, and her regret at not attending college.
Archival Collection
