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Clip 2 from interview with Renee Diamond, November 20, 2014
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In this clip, Diamond talks about working on the campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in Nevada.
"The Forgotten Soldier: Part II": article draft by Roosevelt Fitzgerald
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Archival Collection
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From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Drafts for the Las Vegas Sentinel Voice file. On Black military service.
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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie George
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Archival Collection
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Transcript of interview with Russell Grater by Frederick Dougan, February 10, 1977
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Archival Collection
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On February 10, 1977, Frederick Dougan interviewed Russell Grater (born 1907 in Lebanon, Indiana) about his career in the U.S. National Park Service. Grater first talks about his move to the Southern Nevada area and his work that impacted the Hoover Dam project. He then talks about the town of St. Thomas, Nevada, the Lost City, and the activities of tourists. Grater also talks about his work in excavation, the indigenous American Indian tribes of the area, findings on petroglyphs, and the types of wildlife that were found in the area. He later talks about findings related to fossils, gold mining, the effects of World War II on the dam project, and vegetation in the area.
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Photograph of the bones of Queho, circa 1940
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Archival Collection
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Slide of cemetery at Candelaria, Nevada, circa 1960s - 1970s
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Archival Collection
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