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Folder 01, LLB, 3, SCA Main Stacks, Collection Cabinets [Cabinet: 12, Drawer: A], PH--00323, Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life

Archival objects in this container:

  1. Cove Hotel, original headquarters for Operation Life. The building to the right was also owned by Operation Life and became the West Las Vegas Library, 1970s
  2. HUD regional office, San Francisco. Signing paperwork for the grant for Ruby Duncan Manor in Las Vegas, Nevada (housing for the elderly and the handicapped, funded under Sec. 202 of HUD). Ruby Duncan (right), executive director; Renee Diamond (left) board member for Operation Life, 1980s
  3. Hugo’s Cellar (restaurant in Four Queens Hotel, Las Vegas, Nev.). A dinner was held to celebrate Operation Life’s grant. L-R: Mahlon Brown, Aldine Weems, Jack Anderson, Ruby Duncan, 1980s
  4. Back of new Operation Life Building, 600 West Owens Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1980s
  5. Aldine Weems, administrator of Operation Life, 1970s
  6. Dinner at Hugo’s Cellar (see photo 0323_0019). L-R: Mahlon Brown, Aldine Weems, Jack Anderson, Ruby Duncan, Diane Anderson (Jack’s wife), Renee Diamond, 1980s
  7. Left to right (L-R): Aldine Weems; Marty Makower, National Economic Development and Law Center, Berkeley, California; Renee Diamond; unidentified federal employee; Ruby Duncan, executive director of Operation Life. HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
  8. Aldine Weems, 1978 May
  9. L-R: Aldine Weems, Ruby Duncan, Tommy Ruggiero (board member, Operation Life). HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
  10. L-R: Jack Anderson, attorney for Operation Life; Ruby Duncan, Executive Director. HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
  11. L-R: Ruby Duncan and unidentified HUD official. HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
  12. L-R: Renee Diamond and Ruby Duncan. Working on the paperwork for a grant for Operation Life. In HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
  13. L-R: Unidentified HUD official and Ruby Duncan. HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
  14. Ruby Duncan (center) with two unidentified HUD officials in the HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
  15. L-R: Mahlon Brown (Las Vegas attorney), Ruby Duncan, Jack Anderson (attorney for Operation Life), HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
  16. Ruby Duncan (seated, center), Jack Anderson (standing with rolled-up paper). HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
  17. L-R: Jack Anderson and Mahlon Brown (attorneys). HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
  18. L-R: Renee Diamond and Ruby Duncan. HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
  19. Ruby Duncan (seated, center) with Operation Life staff members and HUD officials; at HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
  20. L-R: Renee Diamond, Jack Anderson, Ruby Duncan, Marty Makower. Marty Makower worked for the National Economic Development and Law Center in Berkeley, California and assisted Operation Life officials in grant writing, 1980s