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Erma Godbey describes how her family obtained a tent in Ragtown: interview video clip
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Erma Godbey describes how her family obtained a tent in Ragtown
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Conquering the Colorado: Part 2: video
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Conquering the Colorado: Part 2. (See call number: TC557.5.H6 C65x - Videocassette)
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Conquering the Colorado: Part 1: video
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Conquering the Colorado: Part 1. (See call number: TC557.5.H6 C65x - Videocassette)
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Description of the landscape of Black Canyon: video clip
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Description of the landscape of Black Canyon from the film Conquering the Colorado. (See call number: TC557.5.H6 C65x - Videocassette)
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Robert Parker discusses African Americans in Boulder City: interview video clip
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Robert Parker discusses African Americans in Boulder City
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Desert Sculptors Association Records
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The Desert Sculptors Association Records (1913-2015) contain agendas, minutes, reports, financial records, photographs of sculptures, and descriptions of community service projects. There is also a scrapbook that chronicles the organization's activities, members, and various sculptures.
Archival Collection
Transcript of a narrative by Lucile Bunker, March 10, 1977
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Archival Collection
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Erma Linda Rivera oral history interview: transcript
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Archival Collection
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Oral history interview with Erma Linda Rivera conducted by Laurents Bañuelos-Benitez, Nathalie Martinez, Maribel Estrada Calderón, and Barbara Tabach on January 09, 2019 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. In this interview, Erma Linda Rivera discusses her early life as a grandchild of immigrants. She shares her experiences growing up in a mining town in Arizona. After marrying, both Erma Linda and her husband Jose became federal civil servants. This would lead Erma Linda Rivera to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1984. Prior to retirement, Rivera worked as an regional Equal Employment Opportunity manager. Rivera discusses her career working for the Department of the Interior, sharing how her job helped fuel her passion for social justice. Erma Linda relates the importance of civic involvement in her life. Finally, she reflects on how Henderson, Nevada has changed over the years she has lived there.
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Mary Carol Melton interview, March 5, 1981: transcript
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Archival Collection
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On March 5, 1981, collector Kathy Ricks interviewed Mary Carol Melton (b. April 4th, 1900 in Rockville, Missouri) about her life in Nevada and the development of the United Methodist Church in Las Vegas. Melton speaks about moving to Las Vegas, Nevada because of her husband’s health, her time working with attorney offices and in the Las Vegas Courthouse, and the different homes in which her family lived. Moreover, Melton talks extensively about starting the first Sunday school in North Las Vegas in a garage as well as the church she and her husband built. Melton discusses the programs and minstrels performed in the church, the crafts sold to make money for the church and the organ they purchased. Lastly, Melton talks about going to the Hoover Dam nearly every week to see new developments, her participation in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and watching the above ground atomic tests.
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