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#72047: Guest speaker Amita Swadhin is a nationally known speaker on interpersonal violence. The intimate dinner was more student focused and the topics revolved around the centering of vulnerable populations in the IPV field to better advocacy practices, 2018 April 03

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Item

Archival Collection

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
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Collection Number: PH-00388-05
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 01

Archival Component

University Libraries Special Collections reception: photographic print

Date

1990-06-21

Description

From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248) -- Beda Cornwall reception held at University Libraries Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Standing from left to right: Blanche Zucker, Beda Cornwall, Seymour Newmark, Florence Mlynarczyk, Melina Cristostomo, and Shirley Allison.

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Equal Rights Nevada Collection

Identifier

MS-00607

Abstract

The Equal Rights Nevada (2000-2002) collection is comprised of organizational records documenting the group’s unsuccessful fight against Question 2, a referendum voted upon in 2000 and 2002 to amend Nevada’s state constitution to forbid same-sex marriage. It includes campaign files, financial records, publicity, correspondence, ephemera, and other supporting documentation from national and regional marriage equality organizations.

Archival Collection

Howard Cannon Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00192

Abstract

The Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (1950-1983) contains photographic prints, negatives, and one slide featuring Senator Howard Cannon at various political and publicity events with military personnel, political colleagues, and constituents primarily in the state of Nevada. Other photographs feature Cannon at political and publicity events outside of Nevada including California, New York, Florida, Oregon, and Washington, D.C.

Archival Collection

Unidentified speaker at the Pulse Nightclub (Orlando, Florida) mass shooting vigil at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital image

Date

2016-06-12

Description

From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: unidentified female speaker

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University Libraries Special Collections Reception: photographic print

Date

1990-08-06

Description

From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248) -- Beda Cornwall reception held at University Libraries Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Former members of the Citizens' Library Association seated from left to right: J. A. Tiberti, Nellie Bunch, Beda Cornwall, Laura Belle Kelch, Sherwin "Scoop" Garside, Clarabelle Decker , Harold Erickson, and Anna Dean Kepper.

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"Collecting Family History": article draft by Roosevelt Fitzgerald

Date

1988 (year approximate) to 1989 (year approximate)

Description

From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Drafts for the Las Vegas Sentinel Voice file. On Black families in the United States and family reunions.

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Photograph of a speaker at the Rod Lee Bigelow Health Sciences building groundbreaking ceremony, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, circa 1991-1992

Date

1991 (year approximate)

Description

An unidentified speaker at the ground breaking ceremony for the Rod Lee Bigelow Health Sciences (BHS) building at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

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UNLV University Libraries Menu Collection

Identifier

MS-00436

Abstract

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) University Libraries Menu Collection consists of menus from restaurants, events, and travel excursions dating from 1852 to 2010. It includes menus from throughout the United States, with the majority of menus coming from Las Vegas, Nevada and Southern California. It also contains materials from many countries as well as travel menus from passenger rail travel, cruise liners and ships, and airlines. The collection also includes dining ephemera consisting of dining guides, food service trade information, and other materials related to restaurants.

Archival Collection

Photograph of UNLV Special Collections, July 29, 1987

Date

1987-07-29

Description

Description provided with image: "L-R Mary Lou Williams, sister of the late Nanelia Doughty; Norton Williams; Susan Jarvis, Special Collections Librarian. The occasion is donation of papers of the late Nan Doughty to UNLV Special Collections. July 29, 1987." Another description provided on an accompanying sheet of paper: "[July 29, 1987, L-R: Mary Lou Williams; Norton Williams; Susan Jarvis]. Currently being processed, the Nan Doughty Collection, donated by her sister, Mary Lou Williams, contains a century's worth of correspondence from the Bradford-Shockley family. The Bradords and Shockleys were intimately involved in mining and land development in Nevada, New Mexico, California, and Oregon, and had been New England shipbuilders in the early 19th century. May Bradford Shockley was the United States' first female surveyor: her letters detail life in Tonopah, Nevada in the early 1900s. her husband, mining engineer William Shockley, traveled the world, and his correspondence describes, among other places, life in and around Candelaria, Nevada in the 1880s. The collection also includes hundreds of early Nevada photographers, mining documents, and maps."

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