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Hermina Washington oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02428

Abstract

Oral history interview with Hermina Washington conducted by B. Leon Green on March 02, 2013 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. Washington discusses her career with the State of Nevada, working under different governors, and raising her three sons with her high school sweetheart. Washington also discusses her various residences on the Westside over the years, her role of church growing up, and changes of Las Vegas, Nevada as a city.

Archival Collection

Connie Hill Sheldon oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02757

Abstract

Oral history interview with Connie Hill Sheldon conducted by Claytee D. White on February 11, 2013 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Sheldon talks about military life in New York City, New York, her driving a school bus in Havelock, North Carolina, being a preschool teacher in Mission Viejo, California, and her jobs at the Huntridge Theater, the Nevada Test Site, and at Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company, Inc.

Archival Collection

Photograph of showgirls outside of an airplane as celebrities disembark, circa March 1956

Date

1956-03

Description

People exit a plane through an oversized coin cut-out as two lines of shwogirls in winter costumes stand by. The woman in the center with a corsage on her coat is actress Agnes Moorehead; the man at the far right is comedian/musician Jerry Colonna; the man to the left of Colonna is producer Joe Pasternak. They are appearing at the premiere of the film "Meet Me In Las Vegas" in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Film transparency of W.F. Knowland, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Taft at Hoover Dam, September 18, 1947

Date

1947-09-18

Description

Black and white image with the following printed description: View showing Senator Wm. F. Knowland, left, Mrs. R.A. Taft and Senator Robert A. Taft during a recent visit to world famous Hoover Dam.

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