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Drew and Debbie Levy at home, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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Longtime Las Vegas residents Drew and Debbie Levy, photographed at their Summerlin neighborhood home for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project.
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Jean Ford Photograph Collection
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The Jean Ford Photograph Collection (1964-1977) contains black-and-white photographic prints, contact sheets, and transparencies of Nevada politician and activist Jean Ford. The collection includes photographs of Jean Ford with the Nevada State Park Commission and various Nevadan politicians; Ford lecturing and campaigning; and of the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas.
Archival Collection
Kishner, Joanna S.
Joanna S. Kishner was born in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 27, 1964.
She and her husband were married at Temple Beth Sholom—the temple where she had her bar mitzvah and where she raises her own children in the Jewish tradition.
Judge Kishner has been recognized for her legal work throughout the years, this includes pro bono work for disadvantaged children through the Children’s Attorney Project.
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Report, Description of flood control problems of the Meadow Valley Wash and Muddy River Water sheds - Clark and Lincoln Counties, Nevada, circa 1940
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Archival Collection
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List of flood control features in the Meadow Valley Wash and the Muddy River Watershed.
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Porter, Carrie Townley
Carrie Townley Porter was born July 07, 1935 in Central Texas near present-day Fort Hood. Townley finished high school in Austin, Texas and attended the University of Texas in Austin for two years. She left college to get married, and she and her geologist husband lived in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. They had three children with no reliable child care so Townley became a housewife for a period. The Townleys lived a full and active life in Las Vegas, Nevada and Carrie Townley eventually got hired as a substitute teacher.
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