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L. J. and Nell Oakes founded the Oakes Vegas Studio in 1922, specializing in landscape and portrait photography. The studio was originally located in the Griffith building at 2nd Street and Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada. L. J. Oakes, former principal of the Las Vegas Grammar School and civic leader, worked as a photographer for the studio and his wife, Nell, operated the business. Photographer Glenn A. Davis became affiliated with the studio upon his move to Las Vegas in the late 1920s.

Harley A. Harmon was born in 1882 in Wier City, Kansas. His father, Elmer Harmon, was an attorney who moved the family to Los Angeles, California when Harmon was nine years old. In 1903, Harley A. Harmon unsuccessfully ran for Los Angeles City Clerk. In 1905, Harley A. Harmon joined the Union Pacific Railroad as an engineer and drove one of the first construction trains to Las Vegas, Nevada, where Harley A. Harmon was stationed in 1908.