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Interview with Richard Vaughn Wyman, December 1, 2005
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"A Brief Look of the Development of the Black Community of Las Vegas": manuscript draft by Roosevelt Fitzgerald
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From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Unpublished manuscripts file.
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Request for transfer of excess government real property for use by the Las Vegas Paiute Colony: correspondence
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Notice of Public Hearing by the Board of Zoning Adjustment. Letter from Superintendent Robert L. Hunter to Area Director John Artichoker about acquiring excess GSA administered land for use by the Las Vegas Indian (Paiute) Colony. Request for transfer of excess real property and related personal property General Services Administration form and statement of justification. Letter from Assistant Area GSA Director Charles D. Worthman to A. B. Pace about the request form for transfer of property. Memorandum to Area Directors about attempts to acquire land on behalf of Native American tribes. Letter from Superintendent to Area Director John Artichoker about the derailment of a Union Pacific Railroad car adjacent to the Las Vegas Paiute Indian Colony. Letter from Las Vegas Paiute Tribal Council Chairman Kenneth D. Anderson to Union Pacific Railroad about specifications for a fence. Letter from Nevada Indian Legal Services Staff Attorney Frederick B. Stocking to Ray Jackson, Bureau of Indian Affairs Phoenix Area Office, about the Las Vegas Indian (Paiute) Colony's attempt to acquire GSA-administered land. Letter from Robert Donlevy, Area Realty Officer, to Frederick B. Stocking reporting progress on acquiring government surplus land. Memorandum from Area Realty Officer to Superintendent, Western Nevada Agency, about request for transfer of surplus land. Letter from A. B. Pace to Assistant Area Director Charles Worthman stating why request for land was denied. Notice of availability of excess real property from Director of Real Property Division A. B. Pace. Description of excess real property and map showing its location in the Las Vegas region.
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Thompson, Dorothy, 1894-1981
Dorothy Loheding was born to Bertina Shoemaker and Fred Lohrding on January 16, 1894 in Kansas. She married Claude W. Thompson (1890-1973) in 1919. They later lived in Caliente in Lincoln County, Nevada. By 1940, the couple lived in Las Vegas where Claude worked as a brakeman for the railroad. Dorothy Thompson died in Las Vegas on October 9, 1981.
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Bedford, David G.
David G. Bedford is a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada. He collected a series of twenty color photographic prints taken in the early 1980s that depict the previously abandoned Ice House of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. The building was located at 650 South Main Street in Las Vegas, and it was demolished in 1988. Bedford donated this photograph collection to UNLV Special Collections & Archives.
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Las Vegas, Nevada - Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company, S.P. James Standard Wholesale Supply Company, easement, 1942-1956
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 38
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Las Vegas, Nevada - trailers and demountable houses on shop grounds, also company houses on Victory Street, 1944-1945
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 38
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Las Vegas, Nevada - trailers and demountable houses on shop grounds, also company houses on Victory Street, 1945-1946
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 38
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Las Vegas, Nevada - trailers and demountable houses on shop grounds, also company houses on Victory Street, 1943-1944
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 38
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