This series contains digital surrogates of scrapbooks created by the chapter from 2002 to 2019. The scrapbooks commemorate the chapter's history, activities, and accomplishments as well as featuring photographs of AKA TTO members at chapter events.
Archival Collection
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Theta Theta Omega Chapter Records
The Verna Mortensen Photograph Collection (approximately 1960-1679) is comprised of eight photographic prints that depict Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada and ferries on the Colorado River in Nevada.
The Verna Mortensen Papers (1966-1979) document the work of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Clark County chapter to preserve and restore the Las Vegas, Nevada Mormon Fort. The collection contains newspaper clippings, notes, and a grant application for the Mormon Fort. It also includes an undated article about the history of the Las Vegas area and two eulogies given for Verna Mortensen.
The collection is comprised of records that document Nancy Cummings-Schmidt's career as a librarian for the Clark County Library District from 1975 to 1981. Collection includes biographical information, photographs of the Sunrise Branch Library renovation, photographs and brochures about summer reading programs at the Clark County Library from 1975 to 1980, and documentation about the 1980 Energy Expo.
Lupe Avelar was born and raised in the State of Durango, Mexico, and since she was little learned from her parents the love for farming and hard work. Lupe relates her childhood with nostalgia and happiness, highlighting how her childhood moments were some of the most beautiful of her life. She grew up in a poor family that solely made their living from the farming of corn and beans. She witnessed her parents make ends meet in any way possible through hard work while staying together as a family and caring for each other.
Bell Family Scrapbook scanning, Set 4, proofed 11.04.2010 Dinner party in the great room in the ranch house at Walking Box Ranch. From left side of table to right: Bill Froelich (Ford car dealer from Los Angeles), Grandmother Daisy Beldam (Rex Bell's mother), Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam)and three unidentified individuals