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Photograph of Transfer Hill ruins, Death Valley Junction (Calif.), early 1900s
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Film transparency showing a house in White Hills, Arizona, circa 1930s-1940s
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Transcript of interview with Connie Hill Sheldon by Claytee White, February 11, 2013
Connie Hill Sheldon and her identical twin, Billie, also were members of Rancho High School 's first graduating class of 1962. Connie and Billie were born in 1944 in Oklahoma and spent their early years in southern California before moving to Las Vegas in 1956 with their mother, brother, and stepfather, Gerald Elmore. In Las Vegas Connie and her siblings attended Sunrise Acres Elementary School before going to Rancho, and the family was active with Homesite Baptist Church. While she was at Rancho Connie worked at the Huntridge Theater, and she continued working there after she graduated. In 1968 Connie married fellow Rancho '62 classmate Clyde Sheldon in Goldfield, Nevada. At the time of their marriage Clyde was an active-duty Marine. Over the course of his twenty-year USMC career the Sheldons lived in several places, but following his 1983 retirement they returned to Las Vegas and then moved to Pahrump. In this interview Connie particularly focuses on military life in New Yo
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Detention basin and park at Anthem Hills Park, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph
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Photograph of Debbie Conway with Courtney Hill, Systems Administrator, circa 2012
Color photograph of Debbie Conway with Courtney Hill, IT Systems Administrator, pictured with the Marriage Certificate Kiosk that Debbie helped to implement, which allows constituents to purchase copies of their marriage certificates without standing in line.
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Beverly Hills Library: architectural, and structural drawings, 1963 September 4
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Photograph of Roofed Hills and the road to the mines, Eldorado Canyon (Nev.), 1900-1925
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Panoramic photograph of Fortification Hill across the Colorado River, circa 1924
Fortification Hill near the Colorado River
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "About 1924. The Colorado River before the Dam, above where Hoover Dam is now (1963)"
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Aerial photograph of Alamo, Nevada, from an overlooking hill, circa 1922
Alamo, Nevada from an overlooking hill
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "About 1922 - Alamo - Looked like this."; Transcribed from photo sleeve: "An aerial of Alamo, Nevada ca. 1922"
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Photograph of Jesse Christensen home, Bullfrog Hills (Nev.), early 1900s
Caption: Home of Jesse Christensen. Beatty, Nevada, where he first saw her.
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