Abstract
The Ronnow Family Photographs contain four black-and-white photographic prints of the Ronnow family in Southern Nevada from approximately 1870 to 1950. Also included is one large oversized black-and-white photographic print of the Old Rotary Club with C. C. Ronnow present.
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Scope and Contents Note
The Ronnow Family Photographs contain four black-and-white photographic prints of the Ronnow family in Southern Nevada from approximately 1870 to 1950. The first photograph depicts the Clark County Commissioners, including C. C. Ronnow. The second photograph depicts students rehearsing for a play at Clark County High School. The third photograph depicts the Ronnow children standing in front of the one-room schoolhouse in Caliente, Nevada, with their teacher. The fifth photograph is a portrait of C. L. Ronnow. The last photograph is a panorama of the Old Rotary Club with C. C. Ronnow present.
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Collection is open for research. Some collection material has been digitized and is available online.
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Arrangement
Materials remain in original order.
Biographical / Historical Note
Charles Christian (C. C.) Ronnow moved to Nevada in 1868 when his father, C. P. Ronnow, was called by the Church of Latter-day Saints leader Brigham Young to settle the Moapa Valley. C. C. Ronnow attended Brigham Young University and served as bishop of Panaca, Nevada in 1884. He also served as a schoolteacher.
C. C. Ronnow became business partners with Ed W. Clark, and together they ran the Ed W. Clark Forwarding Company, which transported freight from the Union Pacific Railroad. Clark, another prominent politician and businessman in Las Vegas, Nevada, was a lifelong friend of the Ronnow family. Clark started the Southern Nevada Power Company, of which C. C. Ronnow’s son, C. L. Ronnow, eventually became vice president in 1946.
C. C. Ronnow moved to Las Vegas in 1905, the new headquarters of the Clark Forwarding Company. In 1908, he was appointed president of the Las Vegas school board. In 1910 and 1912, he won elections for Clark County Commissioner. He was also a member of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club. C. C. Ronnow died in 1945. In 1965, the Clark County School District named an elementary school in his honor.
Sources:
A. D. Hopkins, "Ed Clark," Las Vegas Review-Journal. February 7, 1999. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/ed-clark
Clark County Parks and Recreation, "Commissioner Charles Christian Ronnow." May 25, 2012. http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/parks/Documents/centennial/commissioners/commissioner-c-ronnow.pdf
Preferred Citation
Ronnow Family Photographs, 1870-1950. PH-00036. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 1975 by C. L. Ronnow; accession number 75-342.
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. In 2019, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Jimmy Chang added new material and revised the collection description to bring it into compliance with current professional standards.