Dorothy Loheding was born to Bertina Shoemaker and Fred Lohrding on January 16, 1894 in Kansas. She married Claude W. Thompson (1890-1973) in 1919. They later lived in Caliente in Lincoln County, Nevada. By 1940, the couple lived in Las Vegas where Claude worked as a brakeman for the railroad. Dorothy Thompson died in Las Vegas on October 9, 1981.
David G. Bedford is a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada. He collected a series of twenty color photographic prints taken in the early 1980s that depict the previously abandoned Ice House of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. The building was located at 650 South Main Street in Las Vegas, and it was demolished in 1988. Bedford donated this photograph collection to UNLV Special Collections & Archives.