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Interview with Edward Bonfoy Giller, April 5, 2005
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Corbin Harney personal photographs, speaking engagements, and activism: photograph album
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Archival Collection
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From the Corbin Harney Nevada Test Site Protest Photograph Albums (MS-00308).
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Corbin Harney spiritual, environmental, and protest activism activities: photograph album
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Archival Collection
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From the Corbin Harney Nevada Test Site Protest Photograph Albums (MS-00308).
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Loretta K. Wait oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Loretta K. Wait conducted by Brian Nicoll on March 10, 1981 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview, Wait discusses her personal history and the life of her father, Oscar G. Logan. Wait begins by describing her father's move to Nevada after serving in the military in the early twentieth century, Logan meeting his wife in Tonopah, Nevada, and how he worked at the ammunition storage depot in Hawthorne, Nevada as a carpenter. She then describes his eventual move to Las Vegas, Nevada and his carpentry work on the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam). Wait continues, listing her father's business partnerships and other construction projects he was involved in. She concludes by talking about life in Las Vegas, her education, working at the Nevada Test Site, and observing an unidentified flying object.
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Motel and Restaurant: Project, 1987 June 20; 1987 November 01
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This set includes: index sheet, site plans, utility plans, grading plans, site sections, landscape plans, floor plans, interior elevations, exterior elevations, finish/door/window schedules, foundation plans, framing plans, building sections, plumbing plans, redlining, reflected ceiling plans, lighting plans, equipment plans, mechanical plans and construction details.
This set includes drawings for Dixie One Partnership (client) by Creamer and Noble (engineer).
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Collection Name: Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings
Box/Folder: Roll 287
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June and Lewis Whitley oral history interview
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Oral history interview with June Whitley and Lewis Whitley conducted by Claytee D. White on November 02, 2007 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview the Whitleys discuss moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1958 as newlyweds. Lewis Whitley discusses working at the Nevada Test site as a cook, working for the Clark County Fire Department as a fire hydrant inspector, and then retiring in 2007. June Whitley talks about working as a maid, getting a position with Centel Telephone Company, and then getting a seat on the Board of Regents for the Clark County Community College in 1978. The couple then shares their unique experiences about the growth of the African American community in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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