From the Las Vegas: Snapshots of History Photograph Collection (PH-00425)

Children standing in the ruins of the Las Vegas Fort, 1930. (Ullom photo)

Black and white image of students from Las Vegas School gathered for a class picture. First row, left to right: Bonnie Ball, Bernadine Bawman, Charles McAdams, Lucia Morales, Ferris George, Vivian Caudilf, Alvis Allen, Mildred Aldridge, Alen Kepler, Patty Bugess, Nanyu Tomiyasu. Second row, left to right: Richard Parker, Vinie Nielson, Ronald Baugh, Ruth Engwerson, Lyle Sfietz, Adela Varelas, Bob Nicholas, Theresa Santa Cruz, Leon Carlson, Josaphine Nills, and Wayne Bright. Third row, left to right: Harold Krammer, Marjorie Fenning, Claretdal Mastuson, Rowena Prague, Evelyn Young, Vands Mae Berry, Ester Bradly, Lewis Wells, Ethel Roy, Leon Jennings, Marjorie Rockwell, and Billy Tualese. Fourth row, left to right: Ernest Saari, Mabel Snow, Murial Hellen, James Martain, Nelson Bishop, Edward Frances, Jimmy Hard, Tim Carrigan, Gillian O'Brien, Tommy Bean, Natilia Michel, Richard Bingham, Katherine Carr, and Jack Horden. Fifth row, left to right: Leland Hanson, Wesly Barnum, Ruby Baey, Cla

Date of photograph estimated between 1904-1905. View of a bath house inside a tent on Las Vegas Creek in Las Vegas Ranch. "...water diverted from Las Vegas Creek ran through the sawed board in the foreground and into a wooden tub sunk in the ground. A plank is provided to step on while drying off, and thick matting covers the bare earth. Canvas curtains provided privacy" (p. [88], "Las Vegas, as it began--and grew" by Stanley W. Paher).

Las Vegas Grammar School Band, 1921 or 1922. Bottom row, left to right: Lysle Dubois, Joe Phillips, Robert Dutton, George Ball, unknown, Tom Carrol, "Buck" Cox. Second row, left to right: Harvey McDonald, George Bloedel, George Bremner, unknown, Stanley Reed, Kingrey. Physical object has an insert containg additional biographical information.

Stamp on verso: "Donna Michelle Porter Photography Las Vegas NV (702) 222-8306." At the time the photograph was taken Jan Jones Blackhurst was known as Las Vegas, Nevada Mayor Jan Laverty Jones.

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo series documents ongoing construction work at the Resorts World Las Vegas site.