Abstract
The Squires Family Photographs document the Squires Family and the development of the Las Vegas Valley in Nevada from approximately 1860 to 1980, with a bulk of the photographs depicting people and events from 1900 to 1950. The photographs depict the Euro-American settlement and growth of Las Vegas, Nevada; traveling and exploration of Southern Nevada and the Southwestern United States; the Hoover (Boulder) Dam and the Colorado River; clubs and social groups; and the Squires Family, especially prominent newspaper editor and publisher Charles Pember (C. P. or “Pop”) Squires, Delphine “Mom” Anderson Squires, and their children.
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The Squires Family Photographs document the Squires Family and the development of the Las Vegas Valley in Nevada from approximately 1860 to 1980, with a bulk of the photographs depicting people and events from 1900 to 1950. The photographs depict the Euro-American settlement and growth of Las Vegas, Nevada; traveling and exploration of Southern Nevada and the Southwestern United States; the Hoover (Boulder) Dam and the Colorado River; clubs and social groups; and the Squires Family, especially prominent newspaper editor and publisher Charles Pember (C. P. or "Pop") Squires, Delphine "Mom" Anderson Squires, and their children. The items described include black-and-white photographic prints, postcards, and negatives; items listed are photographic prints unless otherwise specified.
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 website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged into five series:
Series I. Early Las Vegas, Nevada photographs, 1900-1940;
Series II. Las Vegas, Nevada photographs, 1940-1970;
Series III. Locations in Southern Nevada and the Southwestern United States photographs, 1900-1975;
Series IV. Group and club photographs, approximately 1860-1970;
Series V. Squires Family photographs, approximately 1860-1980.
Biographical / Historical Note
Charles Pember “Pop” Squires was a prominent newspaper editor and publisher in Las Vegas, Nevada. He moved to Las Vegas with his wife Delphine Anderson Squires in 1905 and they participated in the town site’s original land auction that same year. Along with several business partners, Squires opened a bank, a hotel, and an electric company. In 1908 he purchased the Las Vegas Age, one of Las Vegas’s original newspapers. He owned and operated the paper until 1943 when the Las Vegas Review-Journal purchased the Age. The Review-Journal’s owner Frank Garside kept Squires as the paper’s editor, a job he retained until the paper was suspended in 1947. At the time of his death in 1958, Squires was working on a local history of Las Vegas.
Source: Cloud, Barbara. “Charles Pember Squires,” Online Nevada Encyclopedia. March 23, 2009. http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/charles-pember-squires
Delphine Anderson Squires was a significant civic figure in Las Vegas, Nevada. She moved to Las Vegas with her husband C. P. Squires in 1905 and they participated in the town site’s original land auction that same year. In an effort to improve the culture of the burgeoning city, she helped establish several civic organizations, including the Congress of Mothers, the Mesquite Club, the Nevada Federated Women’s Clubs, and the Las Vegas Library. She died in 1961.
Source: Moor, Angela. “Delphine Anderson Squires,” Online Nevada Encyclopedia. September 21, 2010. http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/delphine-anderson-squires
Preferred Citation
Squires Family Photographs, approximately 1860-1980. PH-00002. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Processing Note
Materials were processed by Special Collections staff. In 2016, as part of a legacy finding aid conversion project, Lindsay Oden wrote the collection description in compliance with current professional standards.