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Summary report by the League of Women Voters on Legislative Reapportionment, "The Nevada Reapportionment Decision," October 1965

Date

1965-10

Archival Collection

Description

League of Women Voters statement on legislative reapportionment and redistricting in Nevada.

Text

Photograph of Barbara Vucanovich and others at the Pen Women Fall Tea, Las Vegas (Nev.), September 17, 1988

Date

1988-09-17

Description

A picture of Pen Women State President Joanne Trahan (left) with Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich (center) and Branch President Linn Thome (right) at the National League of American Pen Women Fall Tea ceremony.

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Photograph of Lynde Pyatt receiving American Business Women's Association award, Las Vegas, July 16, 1978

Date

1978-07-16

Description

Lynde Pyatt (left) receiving the American Business Women's Association Woman of the Year Award for 1978 from former Woman of the Year Joan Swift (right).

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Photograph of keynote speaker Gloria Steinem at the Nevada Women's Conference in Las Vegas (Nev.), June 18, 1977

Date

1977-06-18

Description

Gloria Steinem was the key note speaker at the Nevada Women's Conference that was held in Las Vegas in 1977. Site Name: Las Vegas Convention Center

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Correspondence, memoranda, surveys of other Nevada repositories women's collections, University Library Society minutes, newspaper clippings, Nevada Women's Archives newsletters, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Library Planning minutes, 1998 Women's History Month programs and correspondence, 1994-1998

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Nevada Women's Archives Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: UA-00052
Collection Name: Nevada Women's Archives Records
Box/Folder: Box 02

Archival Component

Photograph of women in Special Collections, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, December 1975

Date

1975-12

Description

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."

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Film transparency of men and women at the Greenwoods Hotel in Beatty, Nevada, circa early 1900s

Date

1915 to 1929

Description

Description given with photograph: "A negative of men and women in front of a car that was parked in front of the Greenwoods Hotel in Beatty, Nevada. This image is from the first Squires photo album page 7 image 3."

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