Abstract
The C. C. (Clio Cline) Mobley Photograph Collection (approximately 1911 to 1917) consists of sixteen black-and-white photographic prints with corresponding photographic negatives. The images depict the Las Vegas, Nevada Ranch while the Mobley family leased it from the Union Pacific Railroad during the period. The photographs depict the home, swimming pool, the Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort, and orchards and streams on the property.
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The C. C. (Clio Cline) Mobley Photograph Collection (approximately 1911 to 1917) consists of sixteen black-and-white photographic prints with corresponding photographic negatives. The images depict the Las Vegas, Nevada Ranch while the Mobley family leased it from the Union Pacific Railroad during the period. The photographs depict the home, swimming pool, the Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort, and orchards and streams on the property.
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 in original order.
Biographical / Historical Note
C. C. (Clio Cline) Mobley was born in Greensberg, Indiana on February 9, 1888 to Lyman Mobley and Nancy Doggett. Mobley married Bertha Pearl Dickey in 1903, and the new family moved soon after to Riverside, California. Mobley’s first daughter, Mary Miriam, was born in California in 1908. In 1911 Mobley moved his wife and family to the land in Las Vegas, Nevada that contained the Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort and first swimming pool in Las Vegas. The family operated a dairy farm on the property, taking over O.R. Sanford’s business. The Las Vegas Age newspaper recognized the Mobley dairy farm for its sanitary conditions in 1915. The family remained in Las Vegas until approximately 1917, when they moved back to Indiana. Mobley resided in Indiana with his family until his death on January 22, 1985.
Sources:
Genealogy files about "Clio C. Mobley" and "Mary Miriam Copeland." Accessed from Ancestry.com on December 19, 2019.
National Park Service. "Reading 2: The Ranching Years." National Parks National Register of Historic Places. Accessed December 19, 2019. https://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/122fort/122facts3.htm
Nevada State Parks. "History of the Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park." Nevada State Parks. Accessed December 19, 2019. http://parks.nv.gov/learn/park-histories/old-las-vegas-mormon-fort-history
"Sanford Sells Dairy." Las Vegas Age, September 14, 1912. Accessed December 19, 2019.
"Vegas Dairy is a Model." Las Vegas Age, December 18, 1915. Accessed December 19, 2019.
Preferred Citation
C. C. Mobley Photograph Collection, approximately 1911 to 1917. PH-00092. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 1979 by (Mary) Miriam Copeland; accession number 1979-296.
Processing Note
In 2019, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Ryan DiPaolo wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.