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Lee H. Lisby oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01128

Abstract

Oral history interview with Lee H. Lisby conducted by Glen E. Davis on July 10, 1975; Rita O'Brien on April 10, 1978; and Elizabeth Patrick on May 10, 1978 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In 1942, Lisby moved from Tallulah, Louisiana to Las Vegas, Nevada. Lisby talks about living conditions and work opportunities for African-Americans in Las Vegas.

Archival Collection

Republic of Cuba

No description.

Latitude/Longitude

22, -79.5

Geographic Location

Emmanuel Ortega oral history interview: transcript

Date

2019-06-06

Description

Oral history interview with Emmanuel Ortega conducted by Monserrath Hernandez, Maribel Estrada Calderon, Elsa Lopez, Barbara Tabach, and Laurents Bañuelos Benitez on 2019 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Emmanuel Ortega was born in Artesia, California and was raised in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico before moving to El Paso, Texas with his family at the age of thirteen. In 1998 his family relocated once again from El Paso to Las Vegas, Nevada where his father joined the Carpenters Union. They settled in Green Valley and he began attending a hybrid community college and high school program allowing him to obtain college credits. He continued at the College of Southern Nevada for two more years where he was a photography major and later transferred to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) where he studied art history. He moved back to Las Vegas in 2011 where he began teaching at UNLV and received a PhD in Ibero-American colonial art history from the University of New Mexico in 2017. He is the co-host of the podcast "Latinos Who Lunch" where hosts discuss pop culture, art, and issues of race, sex, and gender in the Latinx community.

Text

Letter (no envelope) from John M. Bunker, Bunkerville, Nevada to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada

Date

1894-06-29

Archival Collection

Description

From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached.

Text

Architectural drawing of Sahara Hotel 400 hi-rise addition (Las Vegas), cover sheet, December 29, 1961

Date

1961-12-29

Description

Cover sheet of the architectural plans for the addition of a hotel tower for the Sahara from 1961. Original image of the hotel is taped backwards into the plan. Includes project tabulation. Printed on onion skin. Leon Gluckson, architect; Berton Charles Severson, architect.
Site Name: Sahara Hotel and Casino
Address: 2535 Las Vegas Boulevard South

Image

Photograph of a rendering of the proposed MGM complex (Atlantic City), circa late 1970s

Date

1975 to 1980

Description

Artist's color rendering of the proposed Atlantic City MGM Grand complex from the late 1970s. The project was never built, and the intended land nestled between Harrah's Atlantic City and the Borgata remains vacant as of 2012.
Site Name: MGM Grand Atlantic City
Address: Brigantine Blvd & Renaissance Blvd, Atlantic City, NJ

Image

Al Lermusiaux oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01104

Abstract

Oral history interview with Al Lermusiaux conducted by Shirley Dianne Long on March 09, 1978 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Lermusiaux begins by talking about his move to Las Vegas, his family and what brought him to the city. He shares many anecdotes about the construction of different iconic buildings in Las Vegas, the inner workings of the business, payments to employees and the changes in technology. Lermusiaux, in particular, talks of the telephone system in the fifties and the changes in structures and their regulations. During his interview, Lermusiaux lays out an image of old Las Vegas and Henderson, giving detailed descriptions of the layout of the city, the projects he worked on and the effects of the weather on building structures in Las Vegas.

Archival Collection

Newspaper clipping, Water wrangle solution?, Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 17, 1944

Date

1944-11-17

Archival Collection

Description

Lorenzi recommending a pipeline from Lake Mead to supply water to Las Vegas to guarantee future development in the Las Vegas Valley.

Text

Velma Holland oral history interview

Identifier

OH-00876

Abstract

Oral history interview with Velma Holland conducted by Beatrice Scheid on April 06, 1976 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Holland discusses her early life in Boulder City, Nevada.

Archival Collection