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"Black and Blue": article draft by Roosevelt Fitzgerald

Date

1988 (year approximate)

Description

From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Drafts for the Las Vegas Sentinel Voice file. On the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

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Dr. Javier A. Rodríguez oral history interview: transcript

Date

2019-12-19

Description

Oral history interview with Dr. Javier A. Rodríguez conducted by Elsa Lopez and Barbara Tabach on December 19, 2019 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Dr. Javier Rodríguez, Biology Professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, talks of his personal and educational history that led him to UNLV. He discusses his migration from Puerto Rico to California where he received his PhD from the University of California Berkley and became a biological museum curator for various animal specimens. He later moved to Las Vegas to teach at UNLV where he has now been for nearly two decades; Dr. Rodríguez shares how UNLV has changed since he first started working here, including the university's increased interest in faculty research to become a Top Tier institution. Subjects discussed include: Puerto Rico; University of California Berkley; University funding; Tier 1 research institutions.

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Fedora Bontempi with Grace Hayes and others: photographic print

Date

1973

Description

From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). Show Business Mother of the year Grace Hayes (second from the right) with her son Peter Lind Hayes (left), Fedora Bontempi (center right), and her daughter-in-law Mary Healy (right) in 1973.

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Photograph of Virginia Page, Miss Las Vegas, Sands Hotel, June 2, 1957

Date

1957-06-02

Archival Collection

Description

Nineteen year old Virginia Page from Brighton, England, winner of Meet Me In Las Vegas contest. Page, as Miss Las Vegas, won a trip to Las Vegas for a week starting June 2, 1957. She can be seen hanging off of a plane and waving to the camera.

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Interior of the railroad depot at Rhyolite, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1950 to 1953

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.C. Revert Family. Mr. Heisler, who, with his wife, ran the depot for many years, and Art Revert is leaning on the back of the chair (identified from left to right).

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