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Las Vegas Art Museum Records

Identifier

MS-00549

Archival Collection

Harry Hayden Whiteley Photograph Collection

Identifier

PH-00073

Archival Collection

Allen, Philip W. (Philip Wymer), 1918-

Philip Wymer Allen was born August 3, 1918 in Russell Iowa.

Allen obtained a bachelor of science degree from Parsons College in Iowa in 1940; one year of education at Iowa State College in 1941; Associates degree in Meteorology from the University of Chicago, Illinois in 1942; and one year of education at UCLA in 1967.

Allen was active in the United States Army Air Corps from June 23. 1941 to January 16, 1946.

Allen married Jean Luers Allen May 12, 1946.

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Barth, Delbert S.

Delbert Sylvester Barth was born on July 16, 1925, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Delbert married R. Lucille Barth on July 10, 1946, and they had four children: Delbert II, Christopher, Deborah, and Diana.

Barth retired from his position as Rear Admiral at the Nevada Test Site but remained at the United States Public Health Service and the Test Manager’s Advisory Panel.

Barth was director of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Research Center in Las Vegas.

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John, Elton

Bio taken from Wikipedia: "Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriting partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date. In his five-decade career Elton John has sold more than 300 million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. He has more than fifty Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 58 Billboard Top 40 singles, 27 Top 10, four No. 2 and nine No. 1.

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Lynch, Denny, 1903-1995

Charles Denny Lynch Sr. was a newspaper editor in Pahrump, Nevada. He was born on September 18, 1903 in Hillsboro, West Virginia and moved to Pahrump in 1976. Dissatisfied with newspaper publications at the time, Lynch started the Pahrump Tribune which ran between 1979 and 1983. In 1979, he also wrote the book A History of Pahrump Valley. Lynch married his wife, Nora Agnes Waggoner in 1928. In November 1995, Lynch was hospitalized at Valley Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada where he later died on November 8, 1995.

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