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Gaines, Lovell
Lovell Gaines was born in Louisiana and went to Louisiana State University. He moved to Reno, Nevada after serving in the Vietnam war. Gaines taught for one year and then worked for the Nevada Department of Corrections for thirty-plus years. He was extensively involved in the Reno chapter of the National Association for the Adancedment of Colored People (NAACP). Then when he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1975, he ran for and became the local NAACP chapter president. He served as president from 1980 to 1982.
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Photograph of a mule team hauling borax from Death Valley (Calif.), 1883-1889
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Archival Collection
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Lois Kellogg with her prize heifer on the Arlemont Ranch, Fish Lake Valley: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.K. Miscellaneous. Lois Kellogg with her prize heifer on the Arlemont Ranch, Fish Lake Valley, Nevada, 1940 or 1941. Kellogg was born September 29, 1894, and would have been approximately 45 years old at the time this picture was taken. She purchased The Arlemont Ranch in 1938 or 1939, and raised Russian wolfhounds. It is said That she kept 125 Russian wolfhounds on the ranch. George Ishmael was the Ranch Foreman.
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Biographical essay by Ruth Stobin, 2014
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Ruth Stobin (nee Gottschalk) was able to escape Germany in 1939 with the kindertransport to England, and came to the United States in 1941.
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