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Gwen Weekes Rahner oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Gwen Weekes Rahner conducted by Gail M. Lehtinen on September 28, 1973 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Rahner discusses her role in getting people from the African American community to go out and vote. She also talks about her experience with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She also discusses atomic testing, infrastructure, and the local legislature.
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Leeander Fields Hayes oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Leeander Fields Hayes conducted by Mark Kevin Ryhlick on March 13, 1981 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Hayes discusses the history of entertainment in Las Vegas, Nevada from the mid-1940s to 1958, specifically the local live music and comedy scenes. He also touches on the topic of segregation and how Black entertainers, such as Lena Horne, were treated when they came to perform in Las Vegas.
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Ruth Hazard oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Ruth Hazard conducted by John Neal on March 08, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Hazard goes in-depth about her knowledge of municipal politics and her husband’s friendships with a number of Nevada politicians. Hazard also briefly talks about her fascination with the above-ground atomic tests, speakeasies during Prohibition, and local anxieties about Las Vegas, Nevada “losing its identity.”
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 07, 1983
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Helen D. Newman oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Helen D. Newman conducted by Keri Morgan on March 11, 1981 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Newman discusses her early life and why she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. She discusses changes in the city from housing developments to growth in education due to the construction of additional schools and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She also discusses the construction of new hotels and resorts. Newman later describes the growth of the Girl Scouts in Las Vegas.
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Architectural Drawings, 1951-2009
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The architectural drawings series of the Alton Dean Jensen Architectural Records are comprised of architectural drawings (1951-2009) created by the American architect, Alton Dean Jensen and/or his architectural firm, Alton Dean Jensen Architect, AIA. This series includes 296 rolls of architectural drawings documenting work focusing on the Nevada and Utah area with some projects also located in Arizona, California, Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Montana, and Idaho. The materials feature hand-drawn architectural drawings, ranging from preliminary sketches and artist renderings to schematic drawings and construction documents. The drawings also contain work from a number of consultants, engineers, and other professionals who collaborated on the development of the various projects. These include several sets of original construction documents that the architects used for reference while working on the Lied Library project.
A typical set of drawings in the architectural drawings series may include: title sheet, index, topographic survey, supplemental resurvey map, plot plan, site plan, floor plans, exterior elevations, interior elevations, building sections, wall sections, construction details, foundation plans, roof plans, reflected ceiling plans, structural plans, structural details, electrical plans, electrical details, electrical diagrams, plumbing details, plumbing plans, plumbing diagrams, interior perspective, exterior perspective, mechanical plans, mechanical details, mechanical diagrams, and landscape layout.
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Collection Name: Alton Dean Jensen Architectural Records
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Joseph Thiriot oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Joseph Thiriot conducted by Claytee D. White on August 10, 2000 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Thiriot discusses his vivid memories of moving around, including living in Idaho where his father sold an invention that was a forerunner to the typewriter. He also talks about working as a high school teacher.
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Henry L. Regan Jr. oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Henry L. Regan Jr. conducted by John Grygo on October 12, 2012 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. Regan discusses arriving in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1958 and becoming a musician and a gang member. Later, he discusses turning his life around and becoming a skycap at McCarran International Airport.
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Laura Sussman and Wendy Kraft oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Laura Sussman and Wendy Kraft conducted by Barbara Tabach on February 17, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Sussman and Kraft talk about being business partners in Kraft-Sussman Funeral Home, which caters to the Jewish community. They also talk about the local LGBT community as a lesbian couple.
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Donald Baepler oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Donald Baepler conducted by Suzanne Becker on April 23, 2007 for the UNLV @ 50 Oral History Project. Dr. Donald Baepler discusses his career as a biology professor and administrator at Central Washington University, and various appointments at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) including Academic Vice President (1968), acting President (1969), President (1973), and Chancellor of the university system (1978). He also discusses becoming director of the Majorie Barrick Museum in 1981, and working as a professor of biology at UNLV.
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