Abstract
The Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (approximately 1910-1959) is comprised of black-and-white and color photographic prints and negatives. The images primarily depict the Kiwanis Club in Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as the Potosi mine in Nevada. Other images depict early Helldorado parades, airplanes at Anderson Field (Rockwell Field), and First State Bank employees. Also included are images of locations in Las Vegas, including Las Vegas grammar schools, the El Portal Theater, El Rancho Vegas, Fremont Street, Overland Hotel, and the Old Arizona Club. Additional images include portraits of Maude Frazier, Ray Lyman, and Arthur Harrington.
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The Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection (approximately 1910-1959) is comprised of black-and-white and color photographic prints and negatives. The images primarily depict the Kiwanis Club in Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as the Potosi mine in Nevada. Other images depict early Helldorado parades, airplanes at Anderson Field (Rockwell Field), and First State Bank employees. Also included are images of locations in Las Vegas, including Las Vegas grammar schools, the El Portal Theater, El Rancho Vegas, Fremont Street, Overland Hotel, and the Old Arizona Club. Additional images include portraits of Maude Frazier, Ray Lyman, and Arthur Harrington.
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
Elizabeth Harrington was born January 25, 1898 in Salida, Colorado. She married Arthur Harrington, a bookkeeper with the Empire Zinc Company of New Jersey. In 1916, they moved to Southern Nevada, as the Empire Zinc Company owned the Potosi Mine just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. After the Potosi mine closed around 1920, the Harrington family moved to Hanover, New Mexico. They later returned to Las Vegas where Arthur Harrington started the Harrington Insurance Company. He also was a founding member of the Las Vegas chapter of the Kiwanis Club, a fraternal organization for businessmen, and the Bank of Nevada in February 1926 and May 1941, respectively. He served as the Kiwanis Club's first secretary and was named secretary of the board for the Bank of Nevada.
In 1946, the Harrington family moved to Santa Monica, California due to Elizabeth Harrington's declining health. Arthur Harrington died in California in 1961. From 1975 to 1979, Elizabeth wrote a series of historical articles from her personal knowledge and experience living in Southern Nevada. These articles were published in the Nevadan, the former Sunday supplement magazine to the Las Vegas-Review Journal. Her articles described life in early Las Vegas and at the Potosi mine, detailing aviation, Helldorado parades, banking, hotels, and medicine.
Elizabeth Harrington died in 1992.
Source:
Elizabeth Harrington Collection of Essays, 1975-1979. MS-00220. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Preferred Citation
Elizabeth Harrington Photograph Collection, approximately 1910-1959. PH-00291. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 1984 by Elizabeth Harrington; accession numbers T-165 and 84-42.
Processing Note
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Ryan DiPaolo wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.