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People swimming at pool in Palm Springs, California: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Bell Family Scrapbook scanning, Set 4, proofed 11.04.2010 Unidentified people around and in a pool in Palm Springs
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Photograph of Anne Martin, 1912-1914
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Archival Collection
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Unknown woman sitting in front of a building: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute
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Photograph of unidentified woman at unknown location: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute
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Patricia van Betten Healthcare and Nursing Papers
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The Patricia van Betten Healthcare and Nursing Papers (1985-2009) are comprised of personal correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, and reports of Patricia van Betten, who worked with the League of Women Voters and the Nevada Nurses Association from 1985 to 2011. The collection details several Nevada organizations including the Nevada Chapter of the Health Care Reform Project (HCRP), the League of Women Voters, and the Nevada Nurses Association. Also of interest, the collection contains written material, video recordings, and compact discs pertaining to health curriculum for the Clark County School District.
Archival Collection
Transcript of interview with Valerie Wiener by Barbara Tabach, January 20, 2015
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Archival Collection
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Valerie Wiener is an accomplished state senator, business owner, president and founding member of the Public Service Institute of Nevada and the Valerie Wiener Foundation. She was born October 30, 1948 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her service as senator for 16 years and her role as a public servant led her to become the first woman assistant majority leader of the state senate in Nevada. She graduated with a bachelor degree of Journalism at the University of Missouri/Columbia within the School of Journalism earning a Masters of Arts in Broadcast Journalism and a Master of Arts in Literature at the University of Illinois in Springfield while attending law school at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento in the 1970s. Her generosity is also seen through scholarships and activities at the Louis Wiener Jr. Elementary School. In addition, Valerie is a professional speaker, consultant, and internationally published author. She is the recipients of many awards, such as: ?Women of Achievement Award? in Media; ?Healthy Schools Heroes?; ?Public Affairs Champion Award?; ?Legislator of the Year?, and the Nevada Secretary of State?s recipient of the ?Jean Ford Participatory Democracy Award.? She stays active through her commitment to the Nevada Senior Olympics for both Fitness and Weightlifting earning 17 gold medals from 1998 to 2007. In this interview, Wiener discusses her childhood and being raised in Las Vegas in the 1950s as well as the academic path that led her career into politics. She shares memorable insight into the life of her father, Louis Isaac Wiener, Jr., an accomplished attorney and business man who represented the infamous Benjamin ?Bugsy? Siegel during the construction and opening of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in 1946. Throughout Wiener?s interview, she highlights the traditions of the small, but growing Las Vegas Jewish population in the 1960s. Among the people she recalls most vividly is her grandmother Kitty Wiener. Wiener also discusses her community service work and her life mantra of giving.
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Two women and a man seated at a table in a restaurant (unidentified): photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Bell Family Scrapbook scanning, Set 4, proofed 11.04.2010 Two women and a man seated (all unidentified) at a table in a restaurant at an unknown location
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Photograph of Ruth Urban, Henderson (Nev.), November 10, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Longtime Southern Nevada resident Ruth Urban at here Henderson, Nevada home.
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Photograph of a burro pack train, circa 1880s-1890s
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Archival Collection
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Photographs of Dorothy Eisenberg, 1970-1991
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Archival Collection
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Group of photographs with Dorothy Eisenberg with various Las Vegans.
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