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Photograph of Roosevelt Toston, 1959
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of young Roosevelt Toston when he first came to Las Vegas in 1959.
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Photograph of Roosevelt Toston, 2001
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Archival Collection
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Color portrait photograph of Roosevelt Toston from his 40th High School Reunion.
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Photograph of Roosevelt Toston, signed, 1974
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Archival Collection
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Autographed portrait of Roosevelt Toston in his signature bowtie.
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Audio recording clip of an interview with Gertrude Toston
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview with Gertrude Toston by Claytee White on July 21, 2006. Toston discusses going to work for Western Airlines, at first as a customer service agent in 1967, and then as a flight attendant, while going to school.
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Photograph of the home of Roosevelt Toston's grandmother in Epps, Louisiana, 1987
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of the home of Roosevelt Toston's grandmother in Epps, Louisiana. Toston's aunt Annie Lou Thomson stands in the doorway.
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Transcript of interview with Roosevelt Toston by Claytee D. White, July 11, 2006
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Archival Collection
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Interview with Roosevelt Toston conducted by Claytee D. White on July 11, 2006. Toston grew up in Epps, Louisiana, and came to Las Vegas in the 1950s as a teenager. He describes his experience at Las Vegas High School and the first jobs he held at the Fremont Hotel and the Nevada Test Site. Toston honed his skills at Dana McKay's School of Business, Bell Telephone of Nevada, and in the military. A correspondence course in broadcasting led to jobs at television stations 3 and 8, and ultimately to a position with the Convention Authority in the area of tourism marketing.
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Transcript of an interview with Gertrude Toston by Claytee D. White on July 21, 2006
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Archival Collection
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Gertrude Toston moved to Las Vegas in 1960. She worked for Western Airlines for 27 years, then earned Masters in Education.
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Transcript of interview with Roosevelt Toston by Chanelle Pickens, October 19, 2013
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Archival Collection
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Interview transcript with Roosevelt Toston by Chanelle Pickens, October 19, 2013. This interview focuses primarily on Roosevelt's career in broadcast journalism in the Las Vegas market and then at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
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Photograph of Roosevelt Toston as the KLAS-TV 8 reporter-cameraman, 1973
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of Roosevelt Toston as the KLAS-TV 8 reporter/cameraman.
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Photograph of Roosevelt Toston as the KLAS-TV 8 reporter/cameraman, 1973
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of Roosevelt Toston as the KLAS-TV 8 reporter/cameraman.
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