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Color image of protesters standing in front of a large wooden cross next to the "No Trespassing" sign marking the entrance to the Nevada Test Site during an anti-nuclear testing demonstration held on Good Friday. A guard is posted at the entrance sign.

Color image (from left to right) of Sister Rosemary Lynch, Sister Klaryta Antoszewska, and Christine Buismato during a Franciscan weekend of peaceful demonstrations against nuclear testing.

Description provided with image: "UNLV Special Collections Department reception honoring Elbert and Mary Edwards and the deposit of their manuscripts, books, and photographs in the Department's archives. Las Vegas Rotary Club also presented a $3,000 check to Mrs. Edwards for the Elbert Edwards Scholarship Fund at Boulder Humphrey, Judy Edwards, Keith Edwards, Mary Edwards, Rachel Davis, Mahlon Edwards, Carole Edwards, Donna Edwards Davis, Jeffrey Edwards, Jennifer Edwards." Mary Edwards is fifth from left.

Nineteen year old Virginia Page from Brighton, England, winner of Meet Me In Las Vegas contest. Page, as Miss Las Vegas, won a trip to Las Vegas for a week starting June 2, 1957. She was crowned by Yolande Donlan, Chairman of the panel of judges. Transcribed on the back of the picture: " 'Miss Las Vegas' (Virginia Page) received her sash and crown from Yolande Donlan, chairman of the panel of judges."

Color image of people on and around a stage set up for a demonstration held on World Peace Day by American Peace Test, a group protesting nuclear testing. The stage has large banners and displays many international flags. One of the banners reads, "Nuremberg requires that we act."

Color image of Sister Rosemary Lynch (right) standing with Judy Treicher at a Grandmothers for Peace demonstration. Treicher is holding a sign that reads, "Do you hate your enemies more than you love your children?"

Former Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt, as photographed in 1966. The location where the photograph was taken in unknown. Paul Dominique Laxalt (born August 2, 1922) was Governor of Nevada from 1967 to 1971 and a United States Senator from 1974 to 1987. In the media, the words "son of a Basque sheepherder" often accompanied his name. He was one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends in politics. In fact, after Reagan was elected President in 1980, the national press began to refer to Laxalt as "The First Friend." He is the older brother of Robert Laxalt, who was a noted and prolific writer. He is a member of the Republican Party.