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Set of photographs of Debutante Ball

Information

Creator

Creator: Wright, Clinton, 1940-

Date

1964

Description

Photographer's notations: 67B-8 #2, Deb's Ball '64. 

In 1963, Barbara Kirkland came together with a group of eleven other like-minded female educators at Kit Carson Elementary School to form Les Femmes Douze (The Ladies Twelve) - an organization focused on encouraging and preparing young Black women to pursue higher education. The inaugural class of debutantes made their debut in 1964 at a ball themed “A Winter Wonderland” hosted in the Gold Room of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The cotillion style program allows debutantes to form sisterhoods, instill the value of community services, as well as provide scholarship opportunities.

Digital ID

ohr001133

Permalink

http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1x34qk7g
Details

Subject

Couples
Parties
Theater
Clothing and dress

Time Period

1960s (1960 - 1969)

Resource Type

Still Image

Material Type

black-and-white photographs

Source

Inaugural class of debutantes at the “A Winter Wonderland” ball hosted in the Gold Room of the Las Vegas Convention Center: photographic negative, 1964

Archival Collection

Clinton Wright Photographs

Digital Project

African American Experience in Las Vegas

Citation

ohr001133. Clinton Wright Photograph Collection, 1964-2018. PH-00379. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Nevada, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1x34qk7g

Rights

This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. The donor of the collection, Clinton Wright, transferred all right, title and interest they had in the Clinton Wright Photographs (PH-00379) to UNLV. However, the material may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.

Standardized Rights Statement

In Copyright

Digital Provenance

Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

Format

image/tiff