Black and white photograph of the March 1960 meeting at the Moulin Rouge Hotel Coffee Shop to end segregation on the Las Vegas Strip. City officials and NAACP members met to eliminate segregation in public accommodations and jobs and discuss calling off demonstrations on the Strip in the City of Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada. From left to right: Woodrow Wilson (NAACP), Lubertha M. Warden Johnson, Bob Bailey (NAACP), Clesse Turner (County Commissioner), Butch W. E. Leypoldt (Sheriff), Hank Greenspun (Las Vegas Sun), Dr. James B. McMillan (President of the NAACP), Oran Gragson (Mayor), Dr. Charles I. West, Ray K. Sheffer (Chief of Police), Art Olsen (County Commissioner), possibly David Hoggard, and Donald Clark (NAACP).
From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). From biplane to fanjet, 22 aircraft types have carried the colors of Western Airlines, America's Pioneer Airline. (Shows pictures of all of these aircraft types, with dates.) Douglas M-2 (1926). Shearman Model 4-D (1927). Fokker F-10 Trimator (1928). Lockheed Air Express (1928). Loening Amphibian (1930). Sikorsky S-38 Amphibian (1930). Boeing Flying Boat (1930). Fokker F-32 (1930). Boeing Model 95 (1930). Boeing Model 40-8-4 (1930). Fokker Super-Universal (1932). Douglas DC-2 (1934). General Aviation Model 43 (1934). Boeing 247D (1935). Douglas DC-3 (1937). Lockheed Lodestar (1942). Douglas DC-4 (1945). Nirth American AT-6 (1945). Convair 240 (1948). Douglas DC-6B (1952). Lockheed Electra (1959). Boeing 707 (1960). Boeing 720B Fanject (1961).
From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). L-R: unidentified; Art Olson, Clark County Commissioner; Harold Corbin, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Boulder City Manager; Dr. Henry J. Reining, Dean of the College of Administration, USC at Los Angeles; Albert Franklin, Boulder City Councilman; Bob Broadbent, Boulder City Mayor; Dr. Thomas S. White, Boulder City Councilman; Grant Sawyer, Governor of Nevada; William Byrne, Henderson, Nevada mayor; Morgan J. Sweeney, Boulder City Councilman; Arleigh West, Acting Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation at Boulder City; Joe Manix, Boulder City Councilman; N.E. Broadbent, Mayor of Ely, Nevada; B. Mahlon Brown, Nevada state senator; Harley Harmon, Clark County Commission Chairman; Jake Dieleman, Nevada state assemblyman.
2nd annual Gay Pride parade 1998. Photographer: Dennis McBride. Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada and the Nevada Freedom to Marry Coalition. (4-25-98)
The man wearing the top hat is Chief Tecopa. Della Fisk is holding his arm. A group of unidentified people are surrounding them. Wagons and horses are visible in the background. The photograph was taken in either Pahrump Valley or Ash Meadows, Nevada. Chief Tecopa, leader of the Souther Paiute tribe, was born in Pahrump in 1815 and died in Pahnrump between 1904-1906. He is interred in the Chief Tecopa Cemetery, located on East Street next to the library Pahrump, Nevada.
From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). Photo credit: Gale's Studio, Las Vegas, Nevada. Front row, from left: Mrs. C. P. Squires; Doris Heustis and Rebecca Dunbar of Calif.; Artemessia Brewer; Cora Jones and Leona Fields of Calif.; Mrs. George Beard and Mrs. James Jones. Second row, from left: Mrs. William Mealoi; Mrs. John Katsaros; Mrs. Louis Prichard; Mrs. Orval Solomon; Mrs. Frederick J. Sheeler; Florida M. Horion; Mrs. Louis Blann and Inez Holcomb. Third row, from left: Mrs. Eunice Wagner; Mrs. Harley E. Harmon; the Misses Marilyn Brewer and Phyllis Katsaros; Mrs. Virgil Denny and Mrs. James Osmun.
The Agnes Lynch Photograph Collection on Pahrump, Nevada contains black-and-white and color photographic prints of people and landscapes in and around Pahrump, Nevada from approximately 1979 to 1989. The collection includes images of political rallies held by candidates for Nye County Commissioner, Pahrump Valley High School graduating classes, and Nevada Governor Robert List. Also included are images of the Valley View Plaza, roads surrounding Pahrump, and the Nye County Complex, which housed the fire and sheriff's departments, ambulance services, and the public library.