From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248).

Photographic negatives of Helen J. Stewart's gardens and basket collection

From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248). Reception held at University Libraries Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Anna Dean Kepper stands in the center of the photograph.

From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248). Reception held at University Libraries Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

From the Beda and C. Norman Cornwall Photograph Collection (PH-00248). Flo Mlynarczyk attends a reception held at University Libraries Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Ruth Ferron, a Las Vegas pioneer, and her daughter Shirley Swanson are donating the Ferron-Bracken photo collection to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Special Collections. Ms. Kepper, Special Collections curator, looks on. Typed description provided with image: "Ferron-Bracken Photograph Collection - December 1975, L-R: Ruth Ferron; Anna Dean Kepper; Shirley Ferron Swanson. William and Ruth Ferron came to Las Vegas in 1916-1917 where William Ferron bought several drugstores. Already estabished as a prominent pharmacist and businessman, Ferron in 1920 was elected Las Vegas' third mayor. In 1975 his widow, Ruth, donated the Ferron-Bracken photographs. Containing several hundred photos dating from as early as 1903, these are among the oldest pictures of Las Vegas in existence."

From the Ray W. Baldwin Photograph Collection (PH-00194) -- Inserted sheet with information included with album pages.