Color photograph of a group of men and women at an event for the NAACP. Katherine Joseph is attributed with having made the clothing for this NAACP event.
Shirley R. Edmond was born on April 25, 1945 in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was a resident of the historical Westside Neighborhood of Las Vegas. Edmond was the first African American woman in Southern Nevada promoted by the United States Post Office to be a supervisor. She also worked at Matt Kelly Elementary School.
The Stella Champo Iaconis Papers consist of a certificate for proficiency in Rapid Legible Business Writing from the Palmer Method of Business Writing given on May 11, 1927; a certificate of promotion to high school in Clark County, Nevada dated May 25, 1927; and an autograph book signed by classmates at Las Vegas High School in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1928.
Althea Wilhelmina Losky was born to Sarah Milton and Charles Losky in West Monroe, New York on March 22, 1908. She married Howard Ungleich on July 23, 1927 and they had one son, Frederick, born on June 20, 1929. She went by the name Billie and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in approximately 1948 where she worked as a governess for Marion B. Hicks. She later worked as an executive housekeeper at the Thunderbird. She married Fred Grace in by the late 1950s and the couple lived in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Wilma (Frank) Bass (1939- ) is a retired Las Vegas, Nevada jewelry salesperson. Born and raised in New York, New York, Bass graduated from high school around 1958. She married Burt Bass in 1960 and the family moved to Las Vegas in the 1974.
Gilbert Shaw, better known as Gil, is an original member of Congregation Ner Tamid, a Reform synagogue in Las Vegas, Nevada. Shaw was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Los Angeles, California. At the age of 17 he enlisted in the US Navy and became a combat correspondent and was trained as a journalist and photographer. In 1973 Shaw and his family moved to Los Vegas, Nevada where he took on a sales position and eventually became a regional manager for Familian Pipe and Supply Company.