The Harold Hind Photograph Collection (approximately 1942-1960) contains black-and-white photographic prints with corresponding negatives. The images predominately depict groups of people including Harold Hind and his wife Betty Biggs Hind. The majority are ‘souvenir’ photographs, primarily from the Hotel Last Frontier and the El Rancho Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada.
On March 1, 1980, Larry E. Cooper interviewed general contractor Ernest (Ernie) Jackson Junior (born December 6th, 1932 in Bruce, Mississippi) in Cooper’s home about his experiences in the Westside as a Black Las Vegas resident. Jackson Jr. discusses the lack of property buyers on the Westside and his goals of improving the Westside by building on the land. Jackson Jr. also discusses his youth as a baseball star for Las Vegas High School in the fifties.