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Georgia Lewis Photograph Collection (PH-00183)

Abstract

The Georgia Lewis Photograph Collection contains black-and-white photographic prints and negatives primarily depicting Kyle Ranch, also known as Boulderado Ranch and Taylor Ranch, between approximately 1900 and 1950. The collection also features locations throughout Nevada such as Sloan, Panaca, Overton, and Indian Springs. Other images depict various individuals, including figures such as Grant Sawyer and J. Edgar Hoover, in Nevada locations and around the United States including Washington and Los Angeles, California.

Finding Aid PDF

Date

1900 to 1950

Extent

0.23 Cubic Feet (3 hanging folders, 1 flat file, and 1 shared box of negatives)
1.30 Linear Feet

Related People/Corporations

Scope and Contents Note

The Georgia Lewis Photograph Collection contains black-and-white photographic prints and negatives primarily depicting Kyle Ranch, also known as Boulderado Ranch and Taylor Ranch, between approximately 1900 and 1950. The collection also features locations throughout Nevada such as Sloan, Panaca, Overton, and Indian Springs. Lastly, various individuals, including figures such as Grant Sawyer and J. Edgar Hoover, are shown in locations in Nevada and around the United States including Washington and Los Angeles, California.

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

Georgia Lewis was a Las Vegas, Nevada writer, journalist, and historian who published Las Vegas, The Way It Was: Diary Of A Pioneer Las Vegas Woman in 1979. Lewis was born 1930 in Jamaica, grew up in Bristol, England, and was one of the first women in Great Britain to earn a Master's degree in journalism. She met Raymond Cohen in Las Vegas, Nevada, later marrying him in 1960 and had two children. Lewis divoced Cohen in 1967, married another man between 1968 and 1971, and remarried Cohen in 1975 until Cohen's death in 1981. She later traveled Southern Nevada interviewing early Las Vegas residents for the Las Vegas Review-Journal's former Sunday magazine, The Nevadan, under her own name and the pen names Dustin George and Joyce Cohen.

Source:

"Burial Scheduled at LV Cemetery for Writer Georgia Lewis." Las Vegas Review-Journal. August 25, 1993. Accessed June 17, 2020. http://files.usgwarchives.net/nv/clark/obits/lewisg.txt

Preferred Citation

Georgia Lewis Photograph Collection, approximately 1900-1950. PH-00183. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Acquisition Note

Materials were donated in 1985 by Lucille Georgia Lewis; accession number 85-8.

Processing Note

In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Jimmy Chang wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.

Resource Type

Collection

Collection Type

EAD ID

US::NVLN::PH00183

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