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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
1938 Ford in the Amargosa River bed near Beatty, Nevada, 1938 March 03
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Charles Thomas-Perry Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02
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B-roll footage for Pioneer Hotel and Gambling Hall in Laughlin, Nevada advertisements: video
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Archival Collection
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B-roll of Pioneer Hotel and Gambling Hall in Laughlin, Nevada. Boats pass by on the river, camera pans to a man and woman talking and standing by the water. Audio abruptly begins, and a woman is giving the couple direction as the camera rolls. Couple then appear on the beach, and the neon signs are visible as the sun begins to set; couple speak to another infront of Vegas Vic sign, then move to a boat on the river, and then ends with the couple talking inside a Pioneer Hotel room. Original media U-matic S, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486. From the Production Company Audiovisual Collection (MS-00930) -- Digitized audiovisual material file.
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1938 Ford in the Amargosa River bed: photographic prints
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Photograph of Toni and Wilbur Clark, Edward G. Robinson and an unidentified man, Park Sheraton Hotel, New York, New York, circa 1950s
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Archival Collection
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Left to right: Toni Clark, Desert Inn owner Wilbur Clark, actor Edward G. Robinson, and an unidentified man at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City.
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New York-New York - Entryway, Las Vegas, Nevada: panoramic photograph
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Archival Collection
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From the Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs (PH-00419).
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Excalibur hotel and casino reflected in New York New York reflecting pond, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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Excalibur hotel and casino reflected in New York New York reflecting pond, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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