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Maude Frazier portrait: photographic print

Date

1910 (year approximate) to 1945 (year approximate)

Description

From the Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (PH-00291). Inscription with image reads: "Maude Frazier, Superintendent of Las Vegas schools for 19 years. 40 years as an educator. 12 years in Nevada State Legislature." - E(lizabeth) Harrington

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Newspaper article, Pioneer worked Union Pacific for life, Las Vegas Review-Journal, September 23, 1973

Date

1973-09-23

Description

Newspaper article about Orien Stevens who worked on railroad for 48 years, from 1925 to 1973. The article discusses his retirement, positions he was able to hold, and work environment.

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Transcript of interview with Alice Thiriot Waite by Carole Terry and Donna Andress, October 19, 2011

Date

2011-10-19

Description

The memories and recollections of Alice Thiriot Ballard Waite provide a most interesting look at both at the Junior League of Las Vegas in the 1970s and the early days of Las Vegas. Alice recalls her childhood and young adult years after she arrived in Las Vegas at the age of five, giving the reader a rare picture of Las Vegas in the 1950s and 1960s. She was most active in the volunteer community of Las Vegas and served as Junior League President in 1964-5. Her reminiscences about the events and activities during the years while she was a Junior League member are an invaluable insight into its history. The exhibits she is sharing are an important documentation of those years after the Service League became the Junior League. She herself was a forerunner of today's Active members because she was a single, working mother while serving as the first "professional" President of the League.

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Audio recording clip of Interview with Simeon Holloway by Claytee D. White, April 19 and April 20, 2013

Date

2013-04-19

Description

Part of an interview with Simeon Holloway by Claytee D. White, April 19, 2013. Holloway tells of receiving honorary music degree from the School of Music in Norfolk, Virginia, 40 years after World War II in 1981.

Sound

Letter from Mr. Wood (Las Vegas) to Walter R. Bracken, February 13, 1926

Date

1927-03-03

Archival Collection

Description

Suggestions of a few minor changes that would allow the Las Vegas Ranch to become profitable in a few years time, as it has the essential fundamentals.

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Scrapbooks, 1946 to 1996

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Series

Scope and Contents

The Scrapbooks contains newspaper articles, photographs, and other memorabilia to document their yearly activities year by year.

Archival Collection

Junior League of Las Vegas Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00179
Collection Name: Junior League of Las Vegas Records
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. M. Jeffers, May 20, 1942

Date

1942-05-20

Archival Collection

Description

Explanation of why Las Vegas Land and Water Company had undercharged users by almost $900 the previous year.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to H. C. Mann (Las Vegas) regarding Las Vegas water supply, June 9, 1938

Date

1938-06-09

Archival Collection

Description

Las Vegas was just entering the hottest part of the year and well No. 1 had dropped off production considerably.

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Photograph of William Norton Schuyler with his daughter Ruth and his father Charles Schuyler, 1904

Date

1904

Description

William Norton Schuyler with daughter Ruth Estella (Schuyler) Cahlan and his father Charles Mortimer Schuyler. William is about 30 years old, Ruth is about 3 years old, and Charles is about 55 years old.

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Transcript of interview with Norma and Gil Schwartz by Stefani Evans, September 22, 2017, October 4, 2017, & February 14, 2018

Date

2017-09-19
2017-10-05
2018-02-14

Description

It's been live, love, and laugh ever since we met. We've been married now thirty-three years. Even for a ninety-three-year-old man, thirty-three years is a long time. For Gil Schwartz, thirty-three years is nearly one-third of his life. The former real estate broker, who was raised in Rye, New York, learned the business by working with his father and then forming his own property management company in Manhattan. In 1959, with two children in tow, Gil moved to Las Vegas, where he soon took temporary quarters at Twin Lakes Lodge and he and his children learned to ride horses. In this interview, Schwartz recalls how horseback riding gave him an instant network of friends through working on the annual Helldorado Days and joining the Sheriff's Mounted Posse. He talks about Sahara Realty, the real estate brokerage he founded in 1964 and sold in 1983, and he shares his experiences 1967–68 in negotiating options to buy about one hundred parcels of unimproved land for Herb Nall, who represe

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