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Photograph of Cyril Wengert, circa 1949

Date

1948 to 1950

Archival Collection

Description

Cyril Wengert at his desk. Here he is estimated to be about 60 years old.

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Goldfield boxing match: photographic print

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)

Description

Boxing match between Terry Mustain (?) on left and young Peter Jackson (right) in Goldfield, Nevada. Arrow on the image is pointing to Rinker: he "paid with a $40 gold piece for that seat."

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"Goldfields' Lighting Express in the early days.", postcard

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)

Description

Tinted postcard, "Goldfields' Lighting Express in the early days."A man crouches down with a dog carrying supplies/tools on the animal's back.

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Marvelys Lopez Omaña oral history interview: transcript

Date

2020-02-21

Description

Oral history interview with Marvelys Lopez Omaña conducted by Monserrath Hernandez and Barbara Tabach on February 21, 2020 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. In this interview, Marvelys Lopez discusses her childhood and growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, where her father owned a toy store. She attended an all-girls Catholic School and from a young age knew that she wanted to be a doctor. In 1993, at the age of seventeen, she was able to study abroad in the United States for one year and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. She returned to Venezuela to attend medical school and while attending medical school she met her husband, who was studying to be a registered nurse at the time. Lopez Omaña recalls volunteering as a firefighter in Venezuela, and discusses the political change that happened in Venezuela during her last years in medical school. She moved to back Las Vegas with her husband in 2003 and began working as a caregiver. She recounts Her first son's birth story, and describes how she became a Certified Professional Midwife.

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