The Dottie Dee Dancers Photograph Collection (approximately 1940-2008) consists of black-and-white photographic reprints of the La Bard Dancers and the Dottie Dee Dancers at the El Rancho in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Dottie Dee Dancers Photograph Collection (approximately 1940-2008) consists of black-and-white photographic reprints of the La Bard Dancers and the Dottie Dee Dancers at the El Rancho in Las Vegas, Nevada. These images may be reproductions of photographs included in the Dottie Dee Dancers manuscript collection, MS-00544.
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.
Dancer and choreographer Dorothy Dalton (stage name Dottie Dee) was born on September 9, 1922. In 1941 she was performing with the La Bard Dancers in Las Vegas, Nevada when they danced at the opening of the El Rancho Vegas. Dorothy spent time on tour as a solo act, and shortly thereafter established the Dottie Dee Dancers
in San Francisco, California. In 1943 the group began appearing at the El Rancho Vegas with a line of 12 women who ran a tour rotation from Los Angeles, California to Las Vegas, and then to San Francisco. The touring group expanded and began preforming in Colorado and Texas. In 1948, the Dottie Dee Dancers began performing in Alaska, where Dalton met and eventually married Donald Tomlin. The Dottie Dee Dancers would continue to perform at the El Rancho Vegas until 1954 where her husband managed the chorus line. By 1959 the Tomlins left Las Vegas to travel with their two sons but moved back in the late 1970s. Dorothy passed away on March 13, 2014 in Las Vegas.
Source:
"Dorothy Tomlin 1922-2014," Obituary, Las Vegas Review-Journal. Accessed March 18, 2020, https://obits.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/lvrj/obituary.aspx?n=dorothy-tomlin&pid=170958305.
Dottie Dee Dancers Photograph Collection, approximately 1940-2008. PH-00358. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated in 2008 by Ron Tomlin; accession number 2008-024.
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Nicole Batten wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.