Portrait of Max Weber, a chef at El Rancho Vegas. Site Name: El Rancho Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.)

El Rancho Vegas corporate board members sit around table for a meeting. Site Name: El Rancho Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Portrait of Walter V. Long sitting at a desk with pen in hand. He sits in front of a window.

Nino Maurizi, 23, stands next to the sign of Mt Charleston Camp of the Las Vegas Army Air Field, 1943. Maurizi wears what looks like army garb and stands in the snow.

Three men sit outside of a beer tent in the desert with a sign that reads "PABST MILWAUKEE BEER ABSOLUTELY PURE." Beer barrels are stacked to the right of the tent. Inscription with image reads: "Man in white shirt is Underhill. Early version of San Pedro Saloon, 1906."

Inside the San Pedro Saloon. Men sit at tables or congregate near the bar. Inscription with image reads: "Table 1st at right was in Underhill home when Lee Phillips took residence in 1965."

Merlin S. Murphy, summer of 1949. He's crouching on the street with another unidentified man at the corner of 5th & Garces in Las Vegas.