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Photograph of town picnic, Beatty (Nev.), July 4, 1920
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Photograph of Blanch Jackson, Tonopah (Nev.), 1905
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Photograph of a woman eating a sandwich on a hillside, Searchlight (Nev.), 1907
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Photograph of a woman walking with a child, 1907
Caption: Mio 1907
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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
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Transcript of interview with Rachel Gibson by Kay Long & Caryll Batt Dziedziak, August 25, 1998
Rachel Gibson was the granddaughter of Nevada pioneers. Her maternal grandparents, George Rammelkamp and Anna Dougherty, were among the earliest white residents of northern Nevada, settling first in Dayton and later Yerington. Her mother, Clara Angelina, and her two aunts, Elizabeth and Georgie, graduated from the University of Nevada at the turn of the century. Clara taught in Yerington for a number of years before marrying Chase Masterson, a dentist. Rachel was born in 1913 in Yerington. The eldest of three children, she continued the tradition of women’s learning and education that began with her mother’s generation. Her 1930 class was the first to graduate from Las Vegas High School, and soon after Rachel moved to California to attend college. Although her father had counseled her to study law, Rachel chose the field of economics. She received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and worked in San Francisco for one year before returning to complete
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Slide of Lilly Fong, circa 1980
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Photograph of the Samuel Newhouse party in Caliente departing for Salt Lake City, Caliente (Nev.), 1906
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Photograph of three women gold panning at Resting Spring Ranch, Tecopa (Calif.), 1915
Caption: L-R Dora Lee Brown, Clara Lee, unidentified
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Photograph of the Tonopah Extension Mine Shaft No. 1, Tonopah (Nev.), 1908
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