The Celesta Lowe Photograph Collection consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives depicting images of Mount Charleston, Nevada, the Owens’ family ranch, family photographs, and gatherings of the National League of American Pen Women of Nevada.
The Celesta Lowe Photograph Collection consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives depicting images of Mount Charleston, Nevada, the Owens’ family ranch, family photographs, and gatherings of the National League of American Pen Women of Nevada.
Collection is open for research.
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Materials remain in original order.
Writer and longtime Las Vegas, Nevada resident Celesta Lowe grew up in Goodsprings, Nevada before the family moved to El Monte, California, where she attended high school and business college before returning to the Las Vegas area. She married Deke Lowe at the first Helldorado celebration in 1935. As a mother of four children, she returned to school in 1955 to take home economic classes at Nevada Southern University (NSU), now University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She became the first secretary to James Dickinson in the NSU library and took charge of the Special Collections Department in 1967. Lowe played a significant role in the development of Special Collections. A prolific writer, she wrote the column "Echoes from the Archives" in the Nevadan supplement of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and followed that with a column entitled "Southwestern Bookshelf." She was an active member of the National League of American Pen Women beginning in 1958, and also served as book review editor for Maverick Publications. Celesta Lowe died at age 87 on December 9, 2004 in Las Vegas.
Celesta Lowe Photograph Collection, approximately 1910-1990. PH-00059. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated in 1995 by Celesta Lowe; accession number 95-48.
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Nicole Batten wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.