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History of Las Vegas, notes and clippings
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Doris Hancock Papers
Box/Folder: Box 1
Archival Component
History: gay: Las Vegas, 2016
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 26
Archival Component
Gay history: Las Vegas, 2017
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 30
Archival Component
History (queer): Las Vegas, 2021
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 35
Archival Component
"Our History": article draft by Roosevelt Fitzgerald
Date
Archival Collection
Description
From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Drafts for the Las Vegas Sentinel Voice file. On the need for more Black history courses.
Text
History of Las Vegas, Nevada, 1961
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Oran K. Gragson Papers
Box/Folder: Box 10
Archival Component
Kerin Scianna Rodgers oral history interview
Identifier
Abstract
Oral history interview with Kerin Scianna Rodgers conducted by Dennis McBride on February 24, 1998 for the Las Vegas Gay Archives Oral History Project. Rodgers discusses arriving in Las Vegas, Nevada and her background in the arts. She discusses her position as Special Assistant to the Governor and being appointed as a commissioner for the performing arts. Rodgers also discusses opening her bar, Gipsy.
Archival Collection
Manuscript on Las Vegas history, 1986
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ralph Roske Papers
Box/Folder: Box 09 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Nevada Archives Week, 2004-2010
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Poster Collection
Box/Folder: Flat File 03
Archival Component
UNLV History 117: Nevada History Photograph Collection
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Abstract
The UNLV History 117: Nevada History Photograph Collection contains photographic prints, negatives, and slides of Las Vegas and Boulder City, Nevada between approximately 1900 and 1959. These images were collected by students for University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) professor Ralph Roske’s class, History 117: Nevada History. The images primarily depict Las Vegas in the 1950s with people posing in front of and inside the El Rancho Vegas and the Last Frontier Village, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Joe E. Lewis, and Paul Newman. Earlier photographs from the 1920s include businesses, such as fireproofing stores, and significant individuals such as Ed W. Clark. Lastly, it contains two photographs of the Boulder City Airport.
Archival Collection