Maurine H. Wilson and Martha Burgelin sitting on the steps of the Hubbard home in Canon City.

After Irene Porter's father's retirement from the Air Force, the family moved to Las Vegas where her aunt and uncle were involved in the gaming industry. After she married, she and her husband Dick moved to Boston. They moved back to Las Vegas due to the bad economy in Boston. Irene worked for the Clark County Planning Department as a secretary but moved up to doing the work of the director, but without the title nor the pay of that position, so she went to work in the planning department of the city of North Las Vegas and became its director of planning. She was one of only five female planning directors in the country. Next Irene began lobbying at the Nevada legislature and became the first female full-time lobbyist in Nevada. She was fired from North Las Vegas following a secret meeting, and her subsequent lawsuit led directly to the first open meeting law in the state of Nevada. Irene then went to work for American Nevada Corporation, which was developing Green Valley. She became the first female project director on such a construction project. In 1977 Irene began to work for the Southern Nevada Homebuilders Association. She built it into an effective lobbying organization and continued to work as a lobbyist at the Nevada legislature. At the time of the interview, she was the executive director/CEO for the Southern Nevada Homebuilders Association.

A black and white image of a woman and three children standing behind a food truck in Ragtown, an area near the Hoover Dam construction site at Black Canyon, not far from Boulder City. Two men appear to be distributing food from the bed of the truck.

Six men stand/sit on their boat, showcasing their catch of fish from the lake. Lake Mead and other boats are visible behind them. The fishermen identified left to right, top row to bottom row, with handwritten inscription: "1. Bill Miller, 2. ?, 3. Bill Miller's brother, 4. Eye, Ear, Nose Specialist, 5. Baker from TWA 6. Gil Tilford - beer hall - rec hall, Boulder City."" (handwritten inscription) by Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada.

From the Bob Paluzzi Panoramic Photographs