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Southern Nevada Photo Album, image 002
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of Admissions Records
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The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of Admissions Records (approximately 1954-1999) contain early enrollment and admission records for Nevada Southern University (NSU), later the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The collection contains correspondence between NSU and other universities regarding transcripts and course credits for potential students, admissions reports, and newspaper clippings of the University's early years. Booklets, flyers, posters, and photographic film and slides used by the University to recruit students are also in the collection.
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Frances Intravia Photograph Collection
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The Frances Intravia Photograph Collection (approximately 1948 to 1979) contains three black-and-white photographic prints. The images depict Albert and Arabell Lee Hafner, author of 100 Years on the Muddy, visiting the St. Thomas, Nevada townsite after the Lake Mead water levels dropped enough make it visible. One of the prints is an original from approximately 1948 to 1952, and the other two are reproductions of images taken during the same period.
Archival Collection
Transcript of interview with Lorna Kesterson by James M. Greene, October 18, 1974
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Archival Collection
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On October 18, 1974, James M. Greene interviewed news editor, Lorna Kesterson (born December 30th, 1925 in St. George, Utah) in her office in Henderson, Nevada. The two discuss Kesterson’s work in news editing as well as her original reasons for moving to Nevada. They also discuss teenage social life of Boulder city, during the 1940s.
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The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, August 4, 1977
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Archival Collection
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Liz Ortenburger (SafeNest) oral history interview conducted by Magdalena Martinez and Elia Del Carmen Solano-Patricio: transcript
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Archival Collection
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From the Lincy Institute "Perspectives from the COVID-19 Pandemic" Oral History Project (MS-01178) -- Community organization interviews file.
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Tony Sanchez (NV Energy) oral history interview conducted by Magdalena Martinez and Elia Del Carmen Solano-Patricio: transcript
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Archival Collection
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From the Lincy Institute "Perspectives from the COVID-19 Pandemic" Oral History Project (MS-01178) -- Business interviews file.
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Transcript of interview with Patrick Gaffey by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White, August 19, 2016
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Archival Collection
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One cannot talk about the arts in Southern Nevada without speaking of Patrick Gaffey. The Cincinnati, Ohio, native moved to Las Vegas as a child and has served the local arts community in several roles nearly his entire adult life, retiring soon after this interview as cultural program supervisor for the Clark County Parks & Recreation Department. After earning his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English at the University of Nevada, Reno, Gaffey married Cynthia Pearson in 1968. In 1981 he began working as a publicist for the Allied Arts Council of Southern Nevada, founding its acclaimed magazine, Arts Alive, and remaining with the organization through its several moves until 1991. In this interview, he speaks to the collaborative nature and long vision of the Southern Nevada arts and architecture community through the founding of Discovery Children's Museum and the Neon Museum and of working with farsighted public entities—the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, Clark County,
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