Every month, Special Collections and Archives will highlight some of our newly processed collections. Here are some of the highlights for December.
Marta and Pedro Ortiz Family Papers, approximately 1950-2024. MS-01198. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete Ortiz Family papers.
- The Maria and Pedro Ortiz Family Papers (approximately 1950-2024) contain documents, photographs, and oral histories that document the Ortiz family's experience as a migrant family living in Southern Nevada. The photographs depict family gatherings, celebrations, work life as migrant farm laborers, and the Moapa Valley region of Nevada. The papers included in the collection include earning statements and pay stubs for Pedro Ortiz Sr., letters of recommendation from the family's employer (Paul and Mitzi Ozaki), correspondence, and funeral programs and prayer cards for various family members and community members. Oral history interviews with Ortiz family members document their experiences growing up in a family of migrant farm workers, living in Logandale, Nevada, and being a part of the Latino community in Southern Nevada.
- Subjects: Oral histories (document genres); black-and-white photographs; Overton (Nev.); Moapa Valley (Nev.); Logandale (Nev.); Migrant labor; Migrant laborers' families
Jany Ortiz-Robinson Papers, 1984-2020. MS-01199. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete Jany-Ortiz Robinson papers.
- The Jany Ortiz-Robinson Papers (1984-2020) contain the papers of Ortiz-Robinson, who has worked in Nevada's early childhood education field for over twenty years. The collection mainly consists of awards and certificates awarded to Ortiz-Robinson over her career, from various organizations including the Economic Opportunity Board of Clark County, The Nevada Registry, Clark County School District, and the Nevada Association of the Education of Young Children. Also included is a copy of her dissertation from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), materials documenting graduation ceremonies, and yearbooks from her time at Moapa Valley High School and the University of San Francisco. A scrapbook documenting her senior year at Moapa Valley High School (1984-1985) contains photographs, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes about her final year in high school.
- Subjects: Clark County School District (Nev.); University of Nevada, Las Vegas. College of Education; Moapa Valley High School; Women educators; Awards and certificates
Siegfried Haderly oral history interview, 2024 October 30. OH-03929. [Cite format consulted: Audio recording or Transcript.] Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the complete Siegfried Haderly interview.
- Oral history interview with Siegfried Haderly conducted by Stefani Evans on October 30, 2024 for Reflections: the Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. In this interview, Haderly recalls his childhood in Manila, Philippines until his parents separated, his mother's move to the United States, and Haderly's move to join her in Las Vegas, Nevada after graduating high school. He describes working first as a dishwasher, and then as a busboy for various hotel/casinos including the Sahara, Desert Inn, and Sands. He then was hired as a bartender and joined the Bartenders Union Local 165 and has been a union member ever since. He shares his experience serving two years in the United States Army during the Vietnam War, and then moving to St. Paul, Minnesota and starting a family. Haderly describes his eventual return to Las Vegas in the 1990s, retiring, and his year-long trips back to the Philippines, and working part-time for family members. At the time of his 2024 interview, Siegfried Haderly was employed as a canvasser for Culinary Workers Union Local 226.
- Subjects: Culinary Workers Union Local 226; Sands Hotel & Casino (Las Vegas, Nev); Oral histories (document genres); Bartenders; Labor union locals--Nevada; Manila (Philippines)
