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UNLV Lady Rebels Women's Basketball team takes on San Jose State during senior night in the Cox Pavilion March 6, 2015 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas: digital photographs
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Archival Collection
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Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05). Client: Athletics/Sports Information
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"Newspaper Accounts of Indian Women in Southern Nevada Mining Towns, 1870-1900." Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, vol. 8, no. 1 (1986): 83-98, 1986
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Faculty Publications
Box/Folder: Box 06
Archival Component
Transcript of interview with Sharon Walker by Barbara Tabach, October 8, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Sharon Walker is a real estate investor, retired stockbroker and former loan officer. She was born on December 8, 1949 in Toledo, Ohio, and moved to Las Vegas with her family in 1963, where they started Walker Furniture, a store which they later sold to the Alterwitz family. Sharon's father, Julius Walker, was also in the casino business, becoming an owner of the El Cortez Hotel and Casino with Jackie Gaughan. Her mother, Anne Walker was a founding member of the first local Hadassah, The Women?s Zionist Organization. Sharon continues the family tradition of being active in Hadassah as well as being a Board Member of Jewish Family Service Agency. In November 2014 she was an honoree of Hadassah Leadership. In this interview, Sharon describes her adolescence in Las Vegas and the differences in culture as compared to her childhood in Toledo, Ohio. She also recalls the Walker Furniture business, her father?s careers, and her uncles Ed ?E? Walker and Lou ?Paddock? Walker.
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Correspondence, invitation to events, memoranda relating to the Chinese Benevolent Association; American Association of University Women, First Presbyterian Church of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Rotary Club correspondence, 1981-1984
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Lilly Fong Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01
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