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Lynnette Sawyer oral history interview: transcript
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Archival Collection
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Oral history interview with Lynnette Sawyer conducted by Nathalie Martinez on January 03, 2019 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Barbara Tabach and Laurents Bañuelos-Benitez also participate in the questioning. Lynnette Sawyer identifies as a Puerto Rican woman born and raised in Spanish Harlem in New York. Her ancestry extends from Spain to Africa and has helped her identity, as she became an educator and museum curator. She describes her life in New York and her journey to Las Vegas. As the founder of the Hispanic Museum of Nevada, she wanted to create a space that would teach young Latinos about their history and heritage.
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Photograph of group portrait outside Panaca Grammar School, Panaca (Nev.), 1916
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Archival Collection
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Slide of Dave Turner, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, circa 1968
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Marzette Lewis with principal Shirley Burbera
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Archival Collection
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Black and white photograph of Marzette Lewis with principal Shirley Burbera and others displaying a donation check.
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Photograph of Marzette Lewis and a student with a donation
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Archival Collection
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Color photograph of Marzette Lewis and a student displaying a $250 donation check.
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Photograph of Albert Edmunds Cahlan, circa 1940s
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Archival Collection
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R. Guild Gray oral history interview
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Oral history interview with R. Guild Gray conducted by James Benson on March 05, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Guild discusses Nevada’s school districts’ history, his teaching background, and the Peabody Study Abroad institute.
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Decker, Clarabelle, 1900-1984
Teacher, librarian, and writer Clarabelle H. Decker was born Clarabelle Douglas in Bellevue, Colorado on November 03, 1900. She and her family moved to Oatman, Arizona, where Decker attended Northern Arizona State Teachers College (now Northern Arizona University) and received her Bachelor of Arts degree. She later earned a Master of Arts degree in English and School Supervision from the University of Washington, and a degree in library sciences from the University of Southern California.
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Semling, Evelyn, 1924-2017
Evelyn Semling born on February 10, 1924 and died on January 5, 2017. She was a music teacher that wrote children's songs.
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Reynaldo Martinez (Chief of Staff) and Senator Harry Reid together in Reid's office: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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A former high school government teacher and championship baseball coach at Western High School, Reynaldo Martinez, Chief of Staff for former Congressman and now United States Senator from Nevada, Harry Reid, is one of a select few Americans, Hispanic and non-Hispanic, to work within the privileged confines of the United States Senate, this nation's highest elective body.
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