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Audio cassette including Paul Lavern Cummings with "Jimmie" and "George" in candid conversations about female singers who inspired and influenced Lavern Cummings; discussions of Cumming's professional career, past performances, the Jewel Box Revue; comments on other female impersonators; side A ends with the recording of an appearance by female impersonator Jim Bailey on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, recorded at Cummings' apartment at 470 Collingwood Street, San Francisco, California; and at 58 Helen (?) Street, San Francisco, California; side B also includes Cummings' studio recording of the songs, "Almost in Your Arms;" "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams;" "That Rainy Day is Here;" " and "Love Me With All Your Heart;" Cummings' June 1973 live performance at the Thousand and One Nights nightclub on Eddy Street in San Francisco, California; and a 1978 performance at Finocchio's when Cummings sang, "What I Did for Love", approximately 1970 to 1979
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Paul Lavern Cummings Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00971
Collection Name: Paul Lavern Cummings Papers
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
Collection Name: Paul Lavern Cummings Papers
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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House of Savoy Royal Family residence, menu, April 30, 1893
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1893-04-30
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Note: Crown and monograms with the acronym "FERT" appear on cover. The M in the word "Menu" incorporates the eagle of the House of Savoy coat of arms. Includes wine list. The U in the monogram below the crown refers to Umberto I who was king of Italy from 1878 to 1900 Menu insert: Wine lists Restaurant: House of Savoy Royal Family residence Location: Naples, Italy
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Fred and Maurine Wilson photographs (unidentified), image 42
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1900 to 1910
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Woman dressed in a hat and coat stands by a fence.
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Darling, Coates & Johnston, Printers (Topeka, Kansas)
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Jack Longstreet with his Ford Model-T: photographic print
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1914 to 1916
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). It's said that Jack Longstreet had been shot in the arm, and refusing to see a doctor, lived with an infected arm for many years. He did get Maude Reed attend to the arm, and also Maude's daughter, Helen Reed, when she got older. The arm, it's said, had a foul odor. When Longstreet made some money at his Longstreet Mine, he finally went to Los Angeles and had his arm treated.
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Photograph of Dorothy with officers, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1960s
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1960 to 1969
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Dorothy Dorothy with six officers at an event for the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Photograph taken by Las Vegas News Bureau. The officers' names are (in no particular order: John Christensen, L.L. Stefen, Theodore Erb, John Bagley, C. Harless Parmelee, and Clarence Davis. (See Image 0131 0186 pho023560 for another photo.) Inscription with photo reads: "DD took the full course along with the reserve officers of So. Nevada."
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