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Marcelina Sandusky standing in backyard located within the original Sunrise Acres community with the water tower visible in the background: photographic print

Date

1983 to 1986

Description

Around the turn of the century, Ramon Sanchez emigrated from Spain to the United States where he became a rancher in Tremonita, New Mexico. Many years later, his son, Cesario, migrated to Liberal, Kansas, to work on the railroad. It was there that his daughter, Marcelina, pictured above, was born and raised and where she eventually met and married her musician husband, Gene Sandusky. In 1941, the Sanduskys moved to Las Vegas where they settled in a new housing tract called Sunrise Acres. Some 45 years later, Mrs. Sandusky stands in her back yard with the original Sunrise Acres community well and water tower looming prominently in the background. Presently, Mrs. Sandusky is working hard to gather the history of that still cohesive neighborhood, one of the earliest in Las Vegas.

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A Shoshonean headstone: photographic print

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 2000 (year approximate)

Description

From the UNLV Special Collections Photograph Collection on Book Illustrations (PH-00170) -- Headstone of the Shoshoneans, Shoshone Native Americans. The headstone reads, "Parker Wise, age 37 years, dies Nov. 8 1915, While on visit to Idaho. Buried like a White Man." Handwritten on verso: "Print from The Shoshoneans by Dorn, plate 1, folder #35, neg. [negative] no. [number] 74-10-11 cn."

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Kurt Fremstad and Ed Schroeder at a camp in Willow Beach, Arizona (identified from left to right): photographic print

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1959 (year approximate)

Description

From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). Fremstad (now 88 years old as of 1987) was a sailor from the age of 14. He was employed during WWII in New York Harbor. After the war, toured the west & settled at Willow Beach. Ed Schroeder was formerly a school teacher in Wisconsin. Gave up his career For health reasons. Died in June 1973.

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