Jennie Briggs is a Las Vegas resident, and an active labor union member working in the hospitality industry. In 2014, she contributed materials to the Las Vegas, Nevada Strip Hotel Labor Relations Collection held at UNLV Special Collections & Archives. This collection is composed of legal documents, correspondence, and human resources manuals and pamphlets related to Las Vegas labor unions from 1963 to 2008.

Jean Devlyn (1903-1968) was primarily known as a choreographer. She managed the Jean Devyln Dancers who performed in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, as well as other locations in the United States. Devlyn also sketched many costume designs. She lived in Las Vegas, Nevada and choreographed the Las Vegas Press Club's annual variety show. She passed away in 1968.

Source:

UNLV University Libraries Collection on Las Vegas Show Costume Design, 19640s-1970s. MS-00422.

Josie Dondich (1908-1976) owned the Cut Rate Liquor Store located at 132 South Fifth Street (now Las

Vegas Boulevard) in the 1940s in Las Vegas, Nevada. She married Ali T. Dondich, a veteran and a construction worker for the Hoover Dam project. The couple had three children, Alex, Elena, and James. Josie Dondich passed away in 1976.

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Josie Dondich Papers, 1935-1974. MS-00261. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

American photographer Glenn Augustus Davis was born March 22, 1894 in Portland, Oregon. He attended school in Oregon and Washington prior to working in the lumber camps and saw mills of Washington and British Columbia. He served in the US Army from 1915 to 1920. He was a member of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front in France during World War I. In the years following the war, Davis returned to the US and worked as a cook, a cotton grower, and a seaman before following his passion for photography.

James H. Down Jr. was born on December 19, 1907 to James H. Down Sr. and Eva Lucille Young in

Michigan. Down Jr. married Lucille McKenzie on August 31, 1931. He served as head of the Clark County

Chamber of Commerce, and later as Justice of the Peace in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was also a member of the Las Vegas Housing Authority for thirty-four years. He died on January 21, 1981 in Las Vegas.

Source:

James H. Down Jr. Photograph Collection, approximately 1915-1940. PH-00015. Special Collections

County Commissioner and business owner James H. Down Sr. (1877-1946) was born in Michigan on September 20, 1877. After the death of both of his parents, he was adopted by Walter A. Down. In 1907 James H. Down married his first wife, Rogena Mahar. They moved to Nevada in 1916 and settled in Goodsprings, Nevada where he worked for George A. Fayle. In 1923, Down relocated to Las Vegas and operated a garage. He opened a Studebaker automobile dealership at the corner of Main and Carson Streets in downtown Las Vegas. In Las Vegas, James H. Down Sr.