Nevada Desert Experience: Organizational records documenting the 25 year history of the Nevada Desert Experience, a Las Vegas-based group which has worked to stop nuclear weapons testing through prayer, education, dialogue, and nonviolent direct action. The collection contains correspondence, memos, flyers, newsletters, photos, slides, videos, cassette tapes, etc. (27.5 linear feet).
Mollie Gregory: Through the auspices of the Women's Research Institute of Nevada, Los Angeles filmmaker and author Mollie Gregory has donated a valuable collection of audio interviews of Las Vegas anti-poverty and women's rights activists from the 1970s to the Nevada Women's Archives. WRIN staff indexed and transferred these interviews from reel-to-reel tape onto CDs.
Virginia James: The former Copa Girl and Folies Bergere dancer has donated several fascinating documents from her dancing career in the 1950s including original contracts from the Sands, Tropicana and Flamingo Hotels.
Valda Boyne Esau: A dancer in the first edition of Lido de Paris show at the Stardust Hotel (1958) has donated numerous photographs, clippings and ephemera on her glamorous career as one of the original Bluebell dancers.
