The Larven Mason Photograph Collection (approximately 1930 to 1939) consists of photographic negatives with corresponding black-and-white photographic prints, as well as additional black-and-white photographic prints. The images depict the mining equipment, personnel, operations, and housing for the Blue Diamond Corporation mine in Blue Diamond, Nevada.
The Larven Mason Photograph Collection (approximately 1930 to 1939) consists of photographic negatives with corresponding black-and-white photographic prints, as well as additional black-and-white photographic prints. The images depict the mining equipment, personnel, operations, and housing for the Blue Diamond Corporation mine in Blue Diamond, 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 as they were received.
Larven Mason was born on February 7, 1913 to John Lee Mason and Stella Melissa Mason in Caribou, Idaho, one of five children. After moving to Nevada, Mason worked at the Blue Diamond Mine in Cottonwood, Nevada, now known as Blue Diamond, Nevada, for the Blue Diamond Materials Company of California that operated a gypsum mine there from 1923 to 1959. Mason was drafted into the military in 1940 and served in the 1875th Aviation Engineers, United States Army Air Corps stationed in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. Mason married Andree Martha Mills on December 23, 1961 and died on November 15, 1987 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Sources:
Genealogy files about "Larven Mason". Accessed on December 18, 2019. Accessed on FamilySearch.org
Tingley, Joseph V. Geologic Tours in the Las Vegas Area: Expanded Edition with GPS Coordinates. Reno: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, 2008.
Carlson, Helen S. Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1985.
Larven Mason Photograph Collection, approximately 1930-1939. PH-00166. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated in 1983 by Larven Mason; accession number 83-41.
In 2019, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Ryan DiPaolo wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.