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Pedestrians use an elevated walkway near the Planet Hollywood hotel and casino above Harmon Avenue at the Las Vegas Strip, looking north-west in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016.
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Red light from an LCD display lights up a pedestrian walkway near Planet Hollywood hotel and casino along the Las Vegas Strip, looking north-northwest in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
Description
Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016.
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Looking east-northeast down Circus Circus Drive toward the Drew Las Vegas project, right tower, and the Sky Tower Las Vegas Condominiums, in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
Description
Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016.
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Encore and Wynn Las Vegas towers as seen from Resorts World Drive near Las Vegas Boulevard, looking east-southeast in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
Description
Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016.
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A clown statue and billboard in front of the Circus Circus hotel and casino on Las Vegas Boulevard, looking west-northwest in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
Description
Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016.
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Lee Martin oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Lee Martin conducted by Dennis McBride on May 01, 2013 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. In this interview, Martin discusses his involvement with the Nevada Gay Action League and the Pacifica Hotel, an effort to open a gay resort in Las Vegas, Nevada during the mid 1980s. He describes managing Paradise Bookstore, a bookstore for gay literature, in downtown Las Vegas. Lastly, Martin discusses other gay businesses that he was involved with in Las Vegas.
Archival Collection
John Warfel oral history interview
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Oral history interview with John Warfel conducted by Dennis McBride on March 11, 1998 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. In this interview, Warfel discusses his personal history and his experiences as a gay priest within the Episcopal Church. He recalls moving to Las Vegas, Nevada and interviewing for a ministry job at Christ Church. Warfel describes same-sex blessings and marriages in the Episcopal Church and the pressures of vestry approval that he dealt with during his career.
Archival Collection
Mark Douglas oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Mark Douglas conducted by Dennis McBride on May 16, 1999 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Archives Oral History Project. In this interview, Douglas discusses his family and upbringing in the Mormon Church, his realization of his sexuality, first experiences with gay clubs and associations, and the conflict between his feelings and his faith. He continues talking about Church views of homosexuality in a modern and historical context and then details two organizations that offer support to LGBT members of the Mormon Church.
Archival Collection
Public Service Institute of Nevada papers
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Valerie Wiener Papers
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Photograph of George Ullom, 1940s - 1950s
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Archival Collection
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