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Color transparency: Golden Nugget Gambling Hall and Eldorado Club night scene, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1949 July
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Anita Freeman Photograph Collection on Southern Nevada
Box/Folder: Box SH-029
Archival Component
Southern properties at Green Valley, ANC, Henderson, Nevada, 1991 July 15
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Thomas L. Morgan Real Estate Development Records
Box/Folder: Box 23
Archival Component
Ruins of tailings trench at Princess Mill: photographic print, 1972 July 15
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Nan Doughty Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 07
Archival Component
Transcript of interview with Gwen Walker by Claytee White, July 15, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Gwendolyn K. Walker arrived in North Las Vegas in 1962 from Houston, Texas, as a five-year-old with her parents, two brothers, and her cousins. The Walker family at first moved to a rented house on D Street, and Gwen attended Kit Carson Elementary School for first grade. Her mother enrolled in nursing school, so she sent Gwen back to Delhi, Louisiana, to be raised by her grandmother. In Delhi Gwen picked cotton with her aunt while she was in the second grade. Gwen returned to North Las Vegas to live with her mother and complete elementary school at Jo Mackey before matriculating to J. D. Smith Elementary School for junior high school and then to Clark High School. Later she attended UNLV. Gwen and her mother joined Saint James Catholic Church at H Street and Washington Avenue, but after she returned from Delhi she joined Second Baptist Church, where she became close with a cohort of friends that remained strong even as she experienced racism and bullying and love for the first time.
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Film negative of Mayor Oran K. Gragson seated at his desk in City Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 21, 1961
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Archival Collection
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