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Ayers, Kari K.

Kari K. Ayers is an insurance industry professional, and a longtime resident of Las Vegas, Nevada. She is past-president of the Southern Nevada Variety Club Tent 39, where she has engaged in several charitable endeavors. During her tenure as president of this organization, she donated a legacy archive of the former Las Vegas Variety Club to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives.

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Map of Goldfield, Nevada, April 25, 1907

Date

1907-04-25

Description

'Compiled by James H. Parks, U.S. Deputy Min. Sur., Box 655, Goldfield, Nev. April 25, 1907.' 'Nevada Press Company, Carson City, Nevada.' Scale: [ca. 1:4,800] 1 inch = 400 ft. Plat map. Library's copy has notes handwritten in pencil along right margin with arrows to locations on map: "Ramsey Street ended Columbia St." "MacMaskrs office." "Lived on Euclid ave in adobe house." " Lived in Tent House Sundog Ave."

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Lisby, Lee Henry

Lee Henry Lisby was born July 01, 1902 in Louisiana. In 1942, Lisby moved from Tallulah, Louisiana to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he found success in owning real estate. He retired as a sawmill worker, truck driver, construction laborer, and hotel porter. His first housing was an old Army hospital tent, and then he built a house. All of his ten children graduated from high school in Las Vegas.

Person

Joe Carnial and others celebrate: photograph

Date

1952-05-07

Archival Collection

Description

Joe Cardinal, fourth person from the left, and unidentified persons "celebrate" by pouring liquid (coffee?) from an oversized motor oil underneath a tent sponsored by Golden Lion Motor Oil. Stamp on back of photo: "Please credit Art Strieb 955 South Hope St. Los Angeles Michigan 2338 with handwritten number 3635 on the stamp." Included in photo sleeve is a Xerox of the Las Vegas Review Journal article in The Nevadan, "Help Us Write History" Sunday, Sept. 9, 1948.

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