35 x 50 cm., folded to 22 x 10 cm. 1958 edition. Copyright held by Robert E. Barringer. Panel title: Welcome map, greater Las Vegas area and scenic routes to and from there. "The Raele McCoy Co." Map is irregularly shaped. Index on verso. Includes advertisements for Las Vegas businesses and notes. Birdseye-view map The Las Vegas area : wonderland of the West : on the Old Spanish Trail; advertisements and helpful information on Las Vegas on verso. "1958 edition." Original publisher: Redwood Publishing Co..
Agnes Marshall was born February 4, 1931 and grew up on a farm in Ferriday, Louisiana raised by her grandparents. At the age of 15, Marshall moved to Salt Lake City, Utah with her mother and later found herself settling in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1951.
Otis R. Harris Jr. was born May 19, 1941 to Otis R. Harris Sr. and Florence Harris. In the early 1940s, after an argument with a white person, Otis Harris's father decided to relocate from Texas to California. During the trip west, he stopped in Las Vegas where they were hiring at the Basic Magnesium plant. Though he only worked there briefly, Las Vegas became home to the Harris family. In this interview, Otis talks about his father's hard working nature and being raised with seven siblings in Las Vegas.
Gene Collins was born to Gertha and Isaac Collins in Lake Providence, Louisiana. Gene's mother relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1950's with his sisters but Gene stayed in Louisiana with his grandparents until college and then migrated to Las Vegas in 1966. Gene and his family lived in West Las Vegas which at the time was a thriving community due to segregation on the Strip. Gene worked as an operator's engineer at the Nevada Test Site and later trained as an engineer.
Lamar Marchese was born December 11, 1943 in Tampa, Florida. Marchese and his wife, Patricia, graduated from the University of Southern Florida and relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1972.
An early Las Vegas resident, Olive Lake-Eglington (neé Olive Lake) was born in 1895 in California. In 1904, she moved with her family from Ontario, California to Las Vegas, Nevada in a covered wagon. Eglington's father, Robert E. Lake, was a barber and was also involved in the early civic development of young Las Vegas, for which an elementary school was eventually named in his honor. Olive Lake graduated in the first Clark County High School class in 1913, and soon after married Earle Eglington, who had moved to Las Vegas in 1911.