Abstract
The Florence Lee Jones Cahlan Photographs depict locations and events in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1909 to 1980. The photographs primarily depict historical locations, including the Las Vegas Mormon Fort, the Kiel Ranch, and plaques commemorating Las Vegas’s 75th anniversary. The photographs also depict celebrations, including the Diamond Jubilee festivities held to celebrate Las Vegas’s 75th anniversary, plaque dedications, building dedications, and the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first mail planes in Las Vegas. The photographs include the Kennecott Copper Corporation’s facilities in McGill, Nevada, Western Airlines planes and pilots, and Union Pacific Railroad locomotives.
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The Florence Lee Jones Cahlan Photographs depict locations and events in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1909 to 1980. The photographs primarily depict historical locations, including the Las Vegas Mormon Fort, the Kiel Ranch, and plaques commemorating Las Vegas’s 75th anniversary. The photographs also depict celebrations, including the Diamond Jubilee festivities held to celebrate Las Vegas’s 75th anniversary, plaque dedications, building dedications, and the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first mail planes in Las Vegas. The photographs include the Kennecott Copper Corporation’s facilities in McGill, Nevada, Western Airlines planes and pilots, and Union Pacific Railroad locomotives.
Access Note
Collection is open for research. Some collection material has been digitized and is available online.
Publication Rights
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.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged by subject.
Biographical / Historical Note
Journalist Florence Lee Jones Cahlan was born in 1910 in Missouri. She received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1933, and then moved to Nevada, where she became a reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In 1940, she married Review-Journal managing editor John Cahlan. In 1953, she left the Review-Journal and became a freelance writer and political consultant. In 1963, she rejoined the newspaper, and she wrote a weekly column about Las Vegas history, which was enlarged into a book titled Water: A History of Las Vegas.
Cahlan was active in the Las Vegas area as a founding member of the local Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Junior League service organizations. She was also the first woman to be on the Nevada State Museum Board of Trustees. She died in 1985.
Source:
Green, Michael. “Florence Lee Jones Cahlan,” Online Nevada Encyclopedia. February 4, 2009. http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/florence-lee-jones-cahlan
Preferred Citation
Florence Lee Jones Cahlan Photographs, 1909-1980. PH-00045. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 1975, 1978, and 1980 by Florence Lee Jones Cahlan and John Cahlan; accession numbers 1975-116, 1978-93, and 1980-186. Materials were also donated in 1977 by the Rainbow Club and Casino; accession number 1977-59.
Processing Note
Materials were processed by Special Collections staff. In 2015, as part of a legacy finding aid conversion project, Lindsay Oden wrote the collection description in ArchivesSpace.