The Morrison Family Photograph Collection (1917-1933) consists of black-and-white and color photographic prints, negatives, and slides. The images primarily depict the Morrison family in Las Vegas, Nevada and the surrounding areas. Images portray youth activities in Nevada, including a local Boy Scouts Troop, Las Vegas High School students, Clark County High School students, as well as student activities at the University of Nevada, Reno. Also included are images of scenes around Las Vegas, including Mount Charleston, Little Falls, and the Colorado River prior to the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam). Other images include Morrison family trips to California, Utah, Oregon, and Arizona.
The Morrison Family Photograph Collection (1917-1933) consists of black-and-white and color photographic prints, negatives, and slides. The images primarily depict the Morrison family in Las Vegas, Nevada and the surrounding areas. Images portray youth activities in Nevada, including a local Boy Scouts Troop, Las Vegas High School students, Clark County High School students, as well as student activities at the University of Nevada, Reno. Also included are images of scenes around Las Vegas, including Mount Charleston, Little Falls, and the Colorado River prior to the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam). Other images include Morrison family trips to California, Utah, Oregon, and Arizona.
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 are arranged by material.
William Herbert Morrison was born in Indiana on April 30, 1880 to Letitia Jane Clinton and Ellery Herbert Morrison in Princeton, Indiana. He married Ella V. Princeton, and the couple had a son, Giles Morrison. The Morrison family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1917. William Morrison worked for the Union Pacific Railroad, until he began working for Basic Magnesium during World War II. He died on March 7, 1945 in Los Angeles, California.
Giles Morrison was born in 1903 in Indiana to William Herbert Morrison and Ella V. Princeton. He met and married his wife, Selma, in Fresno, California in 1929, while on assignment working for Union Pacific Railroad. After returning to Las Vegas, he started a dance band, and formed the first Boy Scout Troop in the city.
Source:
Genealogy Files about "William Herbert Morrison" and "Giles" Morrison." Accessed on April 14, 2020 on familysearch.org.
Morrison Family Photograph Collection, 1917-1933. PH-00213. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated in 1985 by Selma Morrison; accession number 85-40.
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Ryan DiPaolo wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.