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Purchase order for striptease gowns and "Keeping Out of Mischief"

Date

2003-11-06

Archival Collection

Description

Series II. Folies-Bergere production papers, designs, and photographs -- 17th Edition: The Best of the Folies-Bergere -- 2003-2004 costume revisions: costume design drawings, photographs of costume pieces, invoices, and notes -- 1940s sequence

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Interview of Jayce Cox (former LDS member) conducted by Ron Lawrence, 2000 January 17

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This interview was conducted by Ron Lawrence with former queer LDS member Jayce Cox [1975-2013]. The interview was recorded for an article Lawrence wrote titled, "Aversion Therapy: Torture at BYU" [Las Vegas Bugle, May 12a, 2000, cover and pp. 14-17]. Jayce's testimony was also published in "Sexuality May Be Pre-Determined by Genetics," by Ron Lawrence [Las Vegas Bugle, July 20, 2001, p. 35]; and in Wilhemina Parsons' column, "Counseling Center Rumors and News," which noted that MTV was filming a segment on Jayce Cox's experience, and that the Las Vegas media "may finally be picking it up" [Las Vegas Bugle, July 20, 2001, pp. 42-43]. Cox was also quoted from this interview in Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Community in the Silver State, by Dennis McBride [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016], pp. 106-107.

Archival Collection

Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ Collection

Archival Component

Letter from J. T. McWilliams (Good Springs, Nevada) to J. Ross Clark (Los Angeles), February 1, 1903

Date

1903-02-01

Archival Collection

Description

McWilliams' handwritten letter in which he explains that the discrepancy in water measurements of the Las Vegas Creek stem from differences in what the surveyors refer to as a miner's inch. Colonel Moore's reply, mentioned in the letter is referenced below.

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