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Film transparency of Helen Bunker, Mary Syphus, Florence Bishop, Zella Peterson, and Wanda Ball, presumably in Las Vegas, circa early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1939
Description
Black and white image of five young women posing for a photo, most likely in Las Vegas, Nevada. The women standing in the top row are Helen Bunker and Mary Syphus, per the handwritten description on the image. The women in the bottom row include Florence Bishop, Zella Peterson, and Wanda Ball. Note: Image is from a family photo album that was loaned to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and returned to the family on July 17, 1984.
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Photograph of Emma (Peggy) Marie (Schaefle) Schuyler and William Norton Schuyler (left), with Jack (John) and Caroline Heaton., Denver, Colorado, January, 1900
Date
1900-01
Description
Emma (Peggy) Marie (Schaefle) Schuyler and William Norton Schuyler (left), with Jack (John) and Caroline Heaton. In Denver, Colorado. Caroline is Emma's sister (Caroline Agnes (Schaefle) Heaton), and was prominent in Las Vegas real estate market in 1930s-40s. Caroline established the first Las Vegas radio station KGIX in 1928 in the "country" at the current location of 9th and Mesquite Streets.
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Photograph of Lemuel and Johana Compton, circa 1890s
Date
1890 to 1899
Description
Portrait of Lemuel (Lem) and Johana Compton. Handwritten on back of photo: "Had a ranch in Nye County at Peavine, in the early nineties. Both of these people are buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Austin [in Lander County, Nevada]. Present owner of the Peavine ranch now Charley Keough, nephew of Mrs. Compton. Mrs. Johana Compton in the late nineties or 1900 used to deliver potatoes from Peavine Ranch to [Y?illegible] Canyon and Berlin, Grantsville [both in Nye County] which they raised at Peavine Ranch." Johana Compton, a former Union Army nurse, died whle trying to save the Peavine Ranch from fire in November 1900.
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Transcript of interview with Lorna Kesterson by James M. Greene, October 18, 1974
Date
1974-10-18
Description
On October 18, 1974, James M. Greene interviewed news editor, Lorna Kesterson (born December 30th, 1925 in St. George, Utah) in her office in Henderson, Nevada. The two discuss Kesterson’s work in news editing as well as her original reasons for moving to Nevada. They also discuss teenage social life of Boulder city, during the 1940s.
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Photograph of a group in covered wagon at Round Valley
Date
1900 to 1925
Description
Photograph of a group in covered wagon at Round Valley
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Lena Carl Stewart with a rifle and a dog near a creek: photograph
Date
1900 to 1925
Description
Lena Carl Stewart holding a rifle, and a dog with a duck in its mouth, by a creek on an unidentified property, probably the Las Vegas Ranch.
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Photograph of Mayor Oran K. Gragson and Sammy Davis, Jr. cutting the ribbon for the Las Vegas Pageant of Progress, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1960s-1970s
Date
1960 to 1979
Description
Several people, including two Pageant contestants, look on as Las Vegas Mayor Oran K. Gragson (left) assists Sammy Davis, Jr. (center) in cutting the ribbon for the Las Vegas Pageant of Progress. Oran Kenneth Gragson (February 14, 1911 – October 7, 2002) was an American businessman and politician. He was the longest-serving mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, from 1959 to 1975. Gragson, a member of the Republican Party, was a small business owner who was elected Mayor on a reform platform against police corruption and for equal opportunity for people of all socio-economic and racial categories. Gragson died in a Las Vegas hospice on October 7, 2002, at the age of 91. The Oran K. Gragson Elementary School located at 555 N. Honolulu Street, Las Vegas, NV 89110 was named in his honor. Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American Jewish entertainer. Primarily a dancer and singer, he was also an actor of stage and screen, musician, and impressionist, noted for his impersonations of actors, musicians and other celebrities. Davis was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for his television performances. He was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1987, and in 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Slide of Lilly Fong, circa 1980
Date
1979 to 1982
Description
Lilly Fong, University Regent, University of Nevada System.
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Black-and-white photograph of two women in the Stewart family ranch yard, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1908
Date
1908
Description
Photograph of two women in the Stewart family ranch yard, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1908
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Black-and-white photograph of two women in Stewart family ranch yard, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1908
Date
1908
Description
Photograph of two women in Stewart family ranch yard, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1908
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