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Photograph of Lilly Fong, 1974
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Archival Collection
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Debbie Conway oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Debbie Conway conducted by Claytee White on March 03, 2013 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview Debbie Conway speaks about how in 2007 she was the first African American to be elected as the County Recorder in Clark County and in the State of Nevada. She also talked about how she has held various other roles such as Clark County’s Business Development Manager, co-founder of the Summer Business Institute, and producer/host of an economics talk show on KCEP radio.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Vicki Chapman, Las Vegas, circa 1970s-1980s
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Archival Collection
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Vicki Chapman, member of Nevada Dance Theatre, in front of Judy Bayley Theatre at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
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Slide of Jean Ford with two unidentified women at a meeting or reception, June 1985
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Archival Collection
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Slide of Jean Ford speaking into a microphone on a tour bus, June 1985
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Maria Burston Wheeler Papers
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The Maria Burston Wheeler Papers date from approximately the 1850s to 1933 and record Maria Walker's childhood and voyage from Liverpool, England to Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States through her manuscript "My History." The manuscript details her and her family's trans-Atlantic journey as well as her own journey as a married woman, Maria Burston Wheeler, to Las Vegas, Nevada to establish the Mormon Fort located there. Her manuscript details daily life at the fort.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Edith Giles by a car, Goldfield (Nev.), circa 1923
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of a group of men and women standing in doorway, 1900-1925
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of a woman walking with a child, 1907
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Archival Collection
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Caption: Mio 1907
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Photograph of a group in covered wagon at Round Valley
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Archival Collection
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