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Suzette Cox oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Suzette Cox conducted by Andrew Lazarus on March 15, 1981 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Suzette Cox discusses her experiences living in Las Vegas, Nevada. She then discusses her careers in the police departments and a local newspaper company. Topics also included racial discrimination, sports, and how the development of the Strip influenced her life while attending school in Las Vegas, as well as its relation to tourism and aboveground atomic testing.
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Photograph of interior lobby area of Huntridge Theater with art contest entries, 1968
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The caption from newspaper clipping (Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 22, 1968) for this photograph states: Harry Zumar, General Manager of the Huntridge Theater and Radio KENO's Disc Jockeys, Harry Miller and Scotty Morgan try to pick a winner from the many entrants in the Art Contest, held in conjunction with Walt Disney's ""Never A Dull Moment"" now at the Huntridge Theater. ""Never a Dull Moment"" stars Dick Van Dyke and is a hilarious spoof on a million dollar art heist. Contest pictures will remain on display at the Huntridge Theater throughout the showing of ""Never a Dull Moment.""
Bigelow, Thayer
Thayer Bigelow, vice president of the First National Bank of 'Nevada, has been appointed administrative vice president to head the new Southern Nevada division of the s bank in Las Vegas, according to an announcement by President E. J. Questa.
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Squires, Charles P. (Charles Pember), 1865-1958
Charles Pember “Pop” Squires was a prominent newspaper editor and publisher in Las Vegas, Nevada. He moved to Las Vegas with his wife Delphine Anderson Squires in 1905 and they participated in the town site’s original land auction that same year. Along with several business partners, Squires opened a bank, a hotel, and an electric company. In 1908 he purchased the Las Vegas Age, one of Las Vegas’s original newspapers. He owned and operated the paper until 1943 when the Las Vegas Review-Journal purchased the Age.
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Southern Nevada Community Concerts Association Records
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The Southern Nevada Community Concerts Association (SNCCA) Records (1939-2004) document the activities of the SNCCA and consist of meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, promotional papers, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and recordings of select concerts on VHS, Betamax, and an optical disc. The SNCCA worked to bring various singers, orchestras, and ballets to the communities of Las Vegas and Southern Nevada.
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Ted Lenhart LGBTQ Community Collection
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The Ted Lenhart LGBTQ Community Collection (1990-2001) is comprised of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and organizational material detailing LGBTQ community issues in Nevada throughout the 1990s. The collection includes materials from organizations including: Aid for AIDS of Nevada, the Clark County Coalition of HIV/AIDS Service Providers, the Nevada chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), efforts to organize an HIV-Negative Men’s support group in Nevada, and Nevada Outdoors, an LGBTQ hiking club.
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Rodney Sumpter Papers on Doe v. Bryan
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The Rodney Sumpter Papers on Doe v. Bryan contain the legal files of the lawyer Rodney Sumpter, who represented the appellants in the Nevada District Court case Doe v. Bryan (1985) and subsequent appeal in the Nevada State Supreme Court in 1986. Doe v. Bryan challenged one of Nevada's sodomy laws (NRS 201.190), and the collection contains affidavits, motion requests, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and memoranda regarding the case.
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UNLV Libraries Collection of Grand Casinos, Inc. Promotional Materials and Reports
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The UNLV Libraries Collection of Grand Casinos, Inc. Promotional Materials and Reports includes annual reports, financial reports, newspaper and magazine clippings, press kits, press releases, and promotional materials for Grand Casinos, Inc. properties in Mississippi, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Nevada, dating from 1992-2002.
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George Kelly Ryan Papers
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The George Kelly Ryan papers (1921-1971) contain correspondence inquiring about Octavius Decatur "O. D." Gass, newspaper clippings from 1929, handwritten recollections of the Gold Ranch by Laura Royce, and a San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company information, including information on wash-outs in Nevada.
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