Abstract
The Las Vegas Review-Journal Photograph Collection depicts several events in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1935 to 1983 that were documented by Nevada’s largest newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The photographs depict the fire at the Las Vegas School in 1935, the fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in 1980, an exhibition at the Lost City Museum in 1973, a memorial event honoring the first permanent school in Las Vegas in 1980, and an exhibition at the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society in 1983. The collection also contains photographs of some denizens of Las Vegas, including people at the Hughes Bar in Las Vegas, the last Union Pacific passenger train in Las Vegas, and schoolchildren at the Las Vegas School.
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The Las Vegas Review-Journal Photograph Collection depicts several events in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1935 to 1983 that were documented by Nevada’s largest newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The photographs depict the fire at the Las Vegas School in 1935, the fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in 1980, an exhibition at the Lost City Museum in 1973, a memorial event honoring the first permanent school in Las Vegas in 1980, and an exhibition at the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society in 1983. The collection also contains photographs of some denizens of Las Vegas, including people at the Hughes Bar in Las Vegas, the last Union Pacific passenger train in Las Vegas, and schoolchildren at the Las Vegas School.
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 roughly arranged by subject.
Biographical / Historical Note
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is Nevada's largest newspaper. It was first published as the Clark County Review in 1909 by Charles "Corky" Corkhill to provide a voice for the Democratic Party. Corkhill lost the paper in a divorce settlement to Mae Corkhill, who then sold the paper to Frank Garside in 1926. Garside hired Albert E. Cahlan to edit the paper, and Cahlan became co-owner. In 1929, Garside and Cahlan merged the paper with Governor James G. Scrugham's weekly journal, and the resulting newspaper was named the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal.
In 1947, the Review-Journal bought the Las Vegas Age, its Republican competitor, from C. P. "Pop" Squires. Albert Cahlan ran the business, and John Cahlan was the managing editor. Florence Lee Jones, John Cahlan's wife, was the paper's most popular reporter. In 1949, Garside was bought out by Donald W. Reynolds, and the Review-Journal grew rapidly under Reynolds's leadership in the 1950s. In 1960, Reynolds also bought out Albert Cahlan. Reynolds died in 1993 and the company was sold to Jackson Stephens of Stephens Media Group.
In 1989, after the death of Las Vegas Sun publisher Hank Greenspun, the Sun and the Review-Journal signed a Joint Operating Agreement in which the Sun remained editorially independent but the Review-Journal controlled advertising and circulation. This agreement reduced the Review-Journal's competition in Southern Nevada and solidified its dominance in Las Vegas.
In March 2015, the sale of the Las Vegas Review-Journal to New Media Investment Group of New York was finalized. New Media had also purchased seven other Stephens Group dailies and 65 weekly publications in other states.
Sources:
Michael Green, "Las Vegas Review Journal," Online Nevada Encyclopedia. October 22, 2009. http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/las-vegas-review-journal
"Sale of Review-Journal to New Media closes," Las Vegas Review-Journal. March 18, 2015. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/sale-review-journal-new-media-closes
Preferred Citation
Las Vegas Review-Journal Photograph Collection, 1935-1983. PH-00050. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 1977 by Bill Vincent via Elizabeth Harrington; accession number 1977-60.
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 compliance with current professional standards.