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Relda Leavitt Photograph Collection (PH-00162)

Abstract

The Relda Leavitt Photograph Collection (1983) consists of reproductions of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of images taken between approximately 1913 and 1954. The images depict Leavitt’s relatives in Southern Nevada. Other images portray students at the 5th Street Grammar School in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Date

1983

Extent

0.08 Cubic Feet (1 hanging folder and 1 shared box of negatives)
0.10 Linear Feet

Related People/Corporations

Scope and Contents Note

The Relda Leavitt Photograph Collection (1983) consists of reproductions of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives. The images depict Leavitt’s relatives in Southern Nevada. Other images portray students at the 5th Street Grammar School in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

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 remain as they were received.

Biographical / Historical Note

Relda Whitney Leavitt was born in Saint Thomas, Nevada on April 3, 1917 to Stowell Edward Whitney and Anna Isabel Frehner. She married Len R. Leavitt on August 17, 1938. They had one son, Len Randall Leavitt in 1939. Leavitt died on March 12, 1997.

Source:

Genealogy files about "Relda Whitney." Accessed on March 31, 2020 on FamilySearch.org.

Related Collections

The following resource may provide additional information related to the materials in this collection:

Relda Leavitt oral history interview, 1976 March 18. OH-01085. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Preferred Citation

Relda Leavitt Photograph Collection, 1983. PH-00162. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Acquisition Note

Materials were donated by Relda Leavitt in 1983; accession number 83-55.

Processing Note

In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Ryan DiPaolo wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArcivesSpace.

Resource Type

Collection

Collection Type

EAD ID

US::NVLN::PH00162

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