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Audio clip from interview with Judith Steele, November 24, 2014

Date

2014-11-24

Description

In this clip, Judith Steele discusses celebrating the High Holidays and how she influenced Clark County School District to allow Jewish children to observe these days without their absence counting against their attendence record.

Sound

Postcard of teen boys smoking, drinking, and gambling, approximately 1900s-1980s

Date

1900 to 1989

Description

A postcard illustrating young men sitting on the floor playing poker with the title, "A Sunday School Class in the West". The caption on back reads, "This is a jolly group old time Cowboy friends. Sunday is a time of visiting on the western ranches, and the 'latch string' is always out for the strangers. These fellows are not disturbers of the peace as might be inferred from the photograph".

Image

Transcript of interview with Irene Sprague Black by Chari Horne, March 16, 1978

Date

1978-03-16

Description

Chari Horne interviews hairdresser Irene Sprague Black at a beauty salon in Las Vegas. Born in 1919 in Delta, Utah, Black moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1924. During this interview Black discusses early Las Vegas, local schools, homes, friends, family life, the Mormon Church, Mesquite, Indian Reservation, Downtown, Hoover Dam, and Bunkerville, Nevada.

Text

Protestor smudging ashes on other protestors' foreheads: photographic print

Date

1998-04-25

Description

Protestors at the Nevada Test Site. Sister Rosemary Lynch is pictured on the right in a blue jacket. Ash Wednesday 1991.

Image

Mabel Hoggard: funeral guest book

Date

1989-06-09

Archival Collection

Description

From the Mabel Hoggard Papers (MS-00565) -- Personal papers file. This funeral book from Palm Mortuaries and Memorial Parks, Las Vegas, is in memory of Mabel W. Hoggard. It contains religious quotes, poems, and signatures from family and friends. The book notes that services were held at Zion United Methodist Church.

Text

Hal G. Curtis oral history interview

Identifier

OH-00464

Abstract

Oral history interview with Hal G. Curtis conducted by Bill Teepe on February 24, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Curtis talks first about his work on the Union Pacific Railroad before discussing changes and development in Las Vegas, Nevada, including development on the Strip and Downtown areas. He also talks about Block 16, the El Rancho Vegas fire, social clubs, and religion.

Archival Collection

Lori Chenin-Frankl photographs and ephemera, 1964-1978

Date

1964 to 1978

Description

Photographs, report card, and confirmation programs from Lori Chenin-Frankl.

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