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Alber A. Mora oral history interview: transcript
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Oral history interview with Alber A. Mora conducted by Rodrigo Vazquez and Laurents Bañuelos-Benitez on December 7, 2018 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Alber Mora talks about his life growing up in Cuba with his family and the circumstances of their departure from the country; his brother faced pressures to join the military, which led the Mora family to immigrate to the United States by way of a fishing boat in 1994. Alber discusses the family's lives in Houston, Texas and how he met and married his wife, Rosemary, before the couple moved to Los Angeles and Alber began working at Porto's Bakery, a famous Cuban eatery in L.A. Alber shares how he and his wife eventually moved to Las Vegas, where he works for Caesar's Palace and for the Culinary Workers Union as a Shop Steward.
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Martin Stern Architectural Records
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The collection is comprised of drawings (1950-1990) completed by American architect Martin Stern and/or his architectural firm, Martin Stern Jr., AIA Architect and Associates, and contains 400 cubic feet of materials including 710 drawings from over 300 different projects involving over 100 buildings. Stern’s work focused on the resort centers of Las Vegas, Nevada; Reno, Nevada; Lake Tahoe, Stateline, Nevada; and Atlantic City, New Jersey. The materials feature hand-drawn architectural drawings, ranging from pencil and ink on tracing paper preliminary sketches to ink on Mylar (TM) construction documents, and a number of artist’s renderings, used for presentations and promotional materials. The drawings also contain work from a number of consultants, engineers, and other architects who collaborated on the development of the various projects. The collection includes architectural drawings for: hotels, casinos, integrated casino resorts, office towers, multi-family residential developments, and custom single-family homes.
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, September 20, 1983
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Archival Collection
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 29, 1984
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Archival Collection
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 14, 1991
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Archival Collection
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, September 13, 2004
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Archival Collection
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March 03, 2003
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Archival Collection
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Proposal for 1987 and beyond: a future look to Downtown Las Vegas, February 1, 1987
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Overview of a master development plan for the City of Las Vegas from 1987.
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January 3, 1984
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Archival Collection
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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, May 05, 1993
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Archival Collection
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