Guide to the Sherwin "Scoop" Garside Photographs

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas. University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. Box 457010 4505 S. Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-7010 [email protected] Guide to the Sherwin "Scoop" Garside Photographs

Table of Contents

Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical Note ...... 3 Scope and Contents Note ...... 4 Arrangement ...... 4 Administrative Information ...... 4 Related Materials ...... 5 Names and Subjects ...... 5 Collection Inventory ...... 5

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Summary Information

Repository: University of Nevada, Las Vegas. University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. Creator: Garside, Sherwin Frank, 1915-1986 Title: Sherwin "Scoop" Garside Photographs ID: PH-00067 Date [inclusive]: 1907-1969 Physical Description: 1.6 Linear Feet (7 hanging folders and 1 flat file) Language of the English Material: Abstract: The Sherwin "Scoop" Garside Photographs contain photographs from journalist and photographer "Scoop" Garside from 1907 to 1969. The photographs primarily depict events and buildings in Southern Nevada, including construction of the Hoover (Boulder) Dam, the Helldorado Parade in Las Vegas, Nevada, hotels and casinos, schools, and social events. The photographs also depict the Garside Family, including Las Vegas Review-Journal owner Frank Garside, "Scoop" Garside's father. Preferred Citation Sherwin "Scoop" Garside Photographs, 1907-1969. PH-00067. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Biographical Note

Journalist and photographer Sherwin "Scoop" Garside was born in Tonopah, Nevada in 1915. He was the son of Frank Garside, an owner of many newspapers, including the Las Vegas Review, which became the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1929. Sherwin Garside moved to Las Vegas, Nevada when his father purchased the Las Vegas Review in 1926. Garside graduated from Las Vegas High School, where he earned the nickname "Scoop" writing for the school newspaper, The Desert Breeze. Garside graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in journalism, and he is best known for writing a weekly humorous, political commentary column "Caught on the Run" for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The Garside family sold majority interest in the Review-Journal in 1949 and Garside opened Bonanza Printers with his brother- in-law Raymond Germain the same year. Garside continued writing and taking photographs for Las Vegas newspapers and went on to preside over the Nevada State Press Association. Garside also researched and

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Scope and Contents Note

The Sherwin "Scoop" Garside Photographs contain photographs from journalist and photographer "Scoop" Garside from 1907 to 1969. The photographs primarily depict events and buildings in Southern Nevada, including construction of the Hoover (Boulder) Dam, the Helldorado Parade in Las Vegas, Nevada, hotels and casinos, schools, and social events. The photographs also depict the Garside Family, including Las Vegas Review-Journal owner Frank Garside, "Scoop" Garside's father.

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Arrangement

Materials remain in original order.

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Administrative Information

Access The collection is open for research. Portions of this collection are digital and available online. Publication Rights Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish. Acquisition Note Materials were donated in 1976 and 1994 by Sherwin "Scoop" Garside; accession numbers 1976-141, 1976-165, and 1994-33.

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Processing Note Materials were processed by Special Collections staff. In 2015, as part of a legacy finding aid conversion project, Lindsay Oden wrote the collection description in compliance with current professional standards.

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Related Materials

Related Materials The following resources may provide additional information related to the materials in this collection: Sherwin "Scoop" Garside Papers, 1930-1983. MS-00342. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Vegas Review-Journal Photograph Collection, 1935-1983. PH-00050. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Garside, Sherwin. Interview, March 25, 1976. OH-00657. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Names and Subjects

• Photographs • Las Vegas (Nev.) • Helldorado Parade • Elementary schools • Las Vegas High School • Hotels • Casinos • Clark County School District (Nev.)

Collection Inventory

Title/Description Containers Frank Fisher Garside, father of Sherwin Garside, reading while sitting in a chair, folder 01 (0067_0001) (view online)

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Portrait of Sherwin Garside's mother, Mary Imogene Maris Garside, (0067_0002) folder 01 (view online)

Portrait of Sherwin Garside wearing glasses and a suit, (0067_0003) (view online) folder 01

Winnifred Garside, Sherwin Garside's wife, posing for a picture in a dress, folder 01 (0067_0004) (view online)

Sherwin Garside and his wife Winnifred Garside posing for a picture, (0067_0005) folder 01 (view online)

U.S. Senator Key Pittman stepping out of a Western Air Express airplane, folder 01 (0067_0006) (view online)

Sherwin Garside posing with Maurine Wilson at a social function, (0067_0007) folder 01 (view online)

Shirley Ferron Swanson, Harold Erickson, Ruth Ferron, Ruth Atcheson Griffith, folder 01 Barbara Ferron Doyle, and Sherwin "Scoop" Garside, (0067_0008) (view online)

Bessie McKenzie Hansen, Helen Mott, Beth Cory Garside, and Sherwin "Scoop" folder 01 Garside, (0067_0009) (view online)

Ruth Atcheson Griffith, Maurine Wilson, Beth Cory Garside, and Robert Griffith, folder 01 (0067_0010) (view online)

Ulis Newton, Thompson, Carolyn Trelease, (0067_0011) (view online) folder 01

Mrs. Wilson (in black and white), Julie De Armand (in purple), Bertha Montgomery folder 01 Franklin (in pink), Betty French Tinkler, Helen Mott, Janice Haupt, Florence Lee Cahlan Jones, John F. Cahlan, and Ruth Hazard, (0067_0012) (view online)

Mrs. Wilson, Veronica Harmon, Martha Hunsaker, Walter Hunsaker, and Loda folder 01 George, (0067_0013) (view online)

Mrs. Conklin, Cloe Van Buren, Cloe Van Buren's daughter, and Mrs. Melton, folder 01 (0067_0014) (view online)

Employees of the Las Vegas Oil Company posing for a picture in front of their oil folder 01 rig, 1930 (0067_0015) (view online)

Las Vegas Rotary Club: Will Beckley; Boggs; O. K. Adcock; William Ferron; Sam flat file Lawnson; E.W. Cragin; Cyril Wengert; Dr. William Park; Dr. Mildren; Bill Pike; C. 01 P. Squires; Harry Blanding; Adams; Ed Clark; E. W. Griffith; William Schuyler; and Walter Bracken, (0067_0016) (view online)

Death Valley Scotty and Chic Sale autographed for Scoop Garside, (0067_0017) flat file (view online) 01

Sherwin Garside standing on a chair and holding his toy cow, (0067_0018) (view folder 01 online)

Standing outside car is Mary Maris Garside and her father Robert Maris, inside car folder 01 are Sherwin Garside, Frank Garside and Virginia Garside, 1925 (0067_0019) (view online)

Virginia Garside, (0067_0020) (view online) folder 01

Portrait: Sherwin Garside in a suit and tie, (0067_0021) (view online) folder 01

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folder 01

Portrait: Sherwin Garside wearing his military uniform, (0067_0023) (view online) folder 01

Portrait: Sherwin Garside in his captain's uniform, (0067_0024) (view online) folder 01

Sherwin Garside, wearing his military uniform, washes a car in Camp Phillips, folder 01 Kansas, (0067_0025) (view online)

Sherwin Garside posing in his captain's uniform, (0067_0026) (view online) folder 02

Captain Sherwin Garside standing on a truck, surrounded by female admirers, flat file (0067_0027) (view online) 01

Frank Garside's office at Tonopah Times Bonanza in Tonopah, Nevada, 1927 folder 02 (0067_0028) (view online)

Portrait: Frank Garside wearing a suit and hat, (0067_0029) (view online) folder 02

A group of people and a dog standing in front of Frank and Mary Garside's Mt. folder 02 Charleston cabin, with Sherwin Garside at the far right, (0067_0030) (view online)

A view of a snow-covered Mt. Charleston overlooking the desert on an overcast day, folder 02 (0067_0031) (view online)

A group at the Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) groundbreaking ceremony: Charles folder 02 Sumner Reynolds, pastor of the Las Vegas Methodist Church, in Masonic apron, 1930 February 22 (0067_0032) (view online)

Store fronts in Boulder City, (0067_0033) (view online) folder 02

Front of the Pioneer Club in Las Vegas, Nevada, (0067_0034) (view online) folder 02

The front of the El Cortez Hotel and El Cortez Cafe on Fremont Street, Las Vegas, folder 02 (0067_0035) (view online)

The Boulder Club in downtown Las Vegas next to the Apache Bar, (0067_0036) folder 02 (view online)

The Pioneer Club with a line of cars parked out front, (0067_0037) (view online) folder 02

The Las Vegas Club with the neon sign, (0067_0038) (view online) folder 02

The front of the Union Pacific Depot (formerly the San Pedro, Las Angeles & Salt folder 02 Lake Railroad), (0067_0039) (view online)

The Players Club located on the Las Vegas Strip, (0067_0040) (view online) folder 02

Gene Ward, owner of Ward's Mesquite Grocery poses with others in front of his folder 02 business with a tree, (0067_0041) (view online)

Children playing outside of Las Vegas Grammar School and High School, folder 02 (0067_0042) (view online)

Local boy scouts pose in front of a famous sign that railroad passengers could see folder 02 from their cars when in the station near the depot, 1929 (0067_0043) (view online)

A group of Western Airlines employees poses with their airplane in Las Vegas, folder 02 (0067_0044) (view online)

Bunker's Service Station gas pumps and store, (0067_0045) (view online) folder 02

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The Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Lines Passenger & Freight Service station and folder 02 buses, (0067_0046) (view online)

Las Vegas Grammar School building and field, (0067_0047) (view online) folder 02

Las Vegas High School, (0067_0049) (view online) folder 02

Front of the Clark County Courthouse building, (0067_0050) (view online) folder 02

Residential areas in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1911 (0067_0051) (view online) folder 03

Residential areas in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1911 (0067_0052) (view online) folder 03

Las Vegas Motor Express Inc. truck, which was a refrigerator service between Los folder 03 Angeles and Las Vegas, Nevada, (0067_0053) (view online)

Railroad yards in Las Vegas with a station, railroad cars, and a water tank, folder 03 (0067_0054) (view online)

Las Vegas, looking toward Main and Ogden streets from the top of the Arizona Club, folder 03 (0067_0055) (view online)

Front of the MacDonald Hotel, (0067_0056) (view online) folder 03

The Coca Cola Bottling Company building with trucks parked out front, (0067_0057) folder 03 (view online)

Fremont Street with parking meters and cars, (0067_0058) (view online) folder 03

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post band seated on steps of Las Vegas Courthouse with folder 03 their instruments, (0067_0059) (view online)

Two men standing in front of a car at a gas station while the attendant waits inside, folder 03 (0067_0060) (view online)

Goodrich Silvertowns gas station with man and attendants standing in front of a car, folder 03 (0067_0061) (view online)

El Cortez Town Houses courtyard with views of balconies and cars, (0067_0062) folder 03 (view online)

Dry Lake School, Educational District No. 1, (0067_0063) (view online) folder 03

Mobil Gas Station, Las Vegas, (0067_0064) (view online) folder 03

Block 16, with the Red Onion Saloon and other tents visible, 1905 (0067_0065) folder 03 (view online)

Stores in early Las Vegas including Nevada Meat Market, Royal Restaurant, and the folder 03 W. E. Hawkins business establishment, (0067_0066) (view online)

Artesian well throwing 60 inches of water, undated (0067) folder 03

Clark Forwarding Co., (0067_0068) (view online) folder 03

Attendants wait for customers by the gas station pumps in the Bunker's Service folder 03 Station, (0067_0069) (view online)

Men walk in the middle of a dirt road, cabins on either side, with a snowcapped folder 03 Mount Charleston shows in the distance, (0067_0070) (view online)

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The Palace Hotel at the corner of 2nd and Fremont Streets, (0067_0071) (view folder 03 online)

Men standing beside cows outside of a barn, (0067_0072) (view online) folder 03

Anderson Dairy Farms, with two boys posing in front of a group of cows, folder 03 (0067_0073) (view online)

Aerial view of the Flamingo Hotel, (0074) folder 03

Aerial view of El Rancho Hotel, (0075) folder 03

Flamingo Hotel pool, (0076) folder 04

The first train passes through Railroad Pass for the Boulder Dam Project, folder 04 (0067_0077) (view online)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt stands watch on the left as two trumpeters start the folder 04 dedication ceremony for the Boulder Dam Opening of the spillways, 1935 September 30 (0067_0078) (view online)

Shop fronts in Boulder City, (0067_0079) (view online) folder 04

Crowd gathers for the dedication ceremony for the future site of Lake Mead at folder 04 Fortification Mountain near McKeeversville with Dr. R. Martin and Art Ham Sr., (0067_0080) (view online)

Celebration of the construction of the railroad branch between Las Vegas and folder 04 Boulder Canyon called Boulder Junction, 1931 (0067_0081) (view online)

Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Las Vegas, (0067_0082) (view online) folder 04

Collage: early Las Vegas, including Fremont Street, a Joshua tree, school yard, folder 04 dunes, and the Union Pacific Station, (0067_0083) (view online)

Construction of Boulder Dam, (0067_0084) (view online) folder 04

People fishing in Lake Mead aboard the Boulder Grand Canyon boat with the folder 04 Boulder Dam visible, (0067_0085) (view online)

An unidentified cowboy casts his fishing line into Lake Mead with the Boulder Dam folder 04 in the background, (0067_0086) (view online)

A group of unidentified men in a boat on the Colorado River wearing their military folder 04 uniforms, (0067_0087) (view online)

An unidentified group of men standing in front of the Boulder Dam during the folder 04 construction phase, (0067_0088) (view online)

An unidentified group of men standing next to a Pickwick Stage automobile at the folder 04 site of the Boulder Dam construction, (0067_0089) (view online)

A group of unidentified men in Black Canyon studying a possible site of the future folder 04 Boulder Dam, (0067_0090) (view online)

Ernie Cragin, mayor of Las Vegas, standing in a field on West Charleston Blvd, folder 04 (0067_0091) (view online)

Two men stand by a field with their two dogs close by at the Tomiyasu Ranch, folder 04 (0067_0092) (view online)

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The ruins of adobe houses in the Lost City of Nevada, with Dr. Harrington and folder 04 helpers, (0067_0093) (view online)

Tonopah, with a bakery, tailor, bank, and a real estate store, 1913 (0067_0094) (view folder 04 online)

Furnace Creek Ranch entrance, Death Valley, California, (0067_0095) (view online) folder 04

Death Valley Inn with a gas station, (0067_0096) (view online) folder 04

Lincoln County High School, Panaca, Nevada, (0067_0097) (view online) folder 04

Two people stand out front of the Bullfrog Miner print shop, (0067_0098) (view folder 04 online)

Death Valley Inn, (0067_0099) (view online) folder 04

Las Vegas Club, (0067_0100) (view online) folder 04

Las Vegas Club, (0067_0101) (view online) folder 05

Rainbow Club, Las Vegas, Nevada, (0067_0102) (view online) folder 05

Silver Club, downtown Las Vegas, (0067_0103) (view online) folder 05

Aerial view of Las Vegas, (0067_0104) (view online) folder 05

Parade of military vehicles drives down a Las Vegas street, (0067_0105) (view folder 05 online)

Military troops in formation in Las Vegas, (0067_0106) (view online) folder 05

North Las Vegas Fire Department and firefighters, (0067_0107) (view online) folder 05

Gamblers at a Las Vegas Strip Hotel, (0067_0108) (view online) folder 05

Helldorado Volunteer Firemen, (0067_0109) (view online) folder 05

Helldorado Volunteer Firemen, (0067_0110) (view online) folder 05

A band sitting in the Helldorado Kangaroo Court jail during Helldorado, folder 05 (0067_0111) (view online)

Mounted on the donkey is Louise Di Fleour, first queen of the annual Helldorado folder 05 celebrations, (0067_0112) (view online)

A prospector deposits silver dollars at the First State Bank during Helldorado, folder 05 (0067_0113) (view online)

Helldorado Parade cart drawn by two donkeys, (0067_0114) (view online) folder 05

A bull rider at the Helldorado rodeo, (0067_0115) (view online) folder 05

Las Vegas High School boys' basketball team: Coach Carver, Jack Sandy, Fred folder 05 Whiteneck, Fermin Goodwin, Clair "Sy" Wadsworth, Ebbie Davis, Berkley Bunker Back, Lawrence Whiteneck, Jimmie Down, John McDonald, and George Bremmer, 1926 (0067_0116) (view online)

Las Vegas High School boys' basketball team: Coach Carver, Jack Sandy, Fred folder 05 Whiteneck, Clair Wadsworth, Ebbie Davis, Fermin Goodwin, Berkley Bunker, 1926 (0067_0117) (view online)

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Posse that pursued the Queho, a Native American outlaw, (0067_0118) (view online) folder 05

Musicians with their instruments standing in front a courthouse in Las Vegas, folder 05 (0067_0119) (view online)

U.S. Senator Pat McCarran stands with two military officers at the entrance to folder 05 McCarran Airfield, (0067_0120) (view online)

Elton Garrett poses with students in front of a building in Boulder City including folder 05 Mary Robertson, Frank Shelton, Delores Brown, Bob Clark, Lola Dunbar, and Elton Garrett, (0067_0121) (view online)

Chester R. Sewell (vice president), Mrs. Charles Hyde (clerk), Sherwin Garside folder 05 (president), R. Guild Gray (superintendent), and Kay Hynne, (0067_0122) (view online)

Water Board: C. D. Baker, Carl Hyde, and A. C. Grant, (0067_0123) (view online) folder 05

Portrait: Dr. J. D. Smith wearing his dentist uniform and glasses and sitting in front of folder 05 molds of teeth, 1930 (0067_0124) (view online)

Cathedral Gorge in Lincoln County, Nevada, (0067_0125) (view online) folder 05

Cathedral Gorge in Lincoln County, Nevada, (0067_0126) (view online) folder 06

Cathedral Gorge in Lincoln County, Nevada, (0067_0127) (view online) folder 06

Cathedral Gorge in Lincoln County, Nevada, (0067_0128) (view online) folder 06

Bryce Canyon hoodoos and canyons created through erosion, (0067_0129) (view folder 06 online)

Bryce Canyon National Park hoodoos and mountains, (0067_0130) (view online) folder 06

Hoodoos and spires visible in Bryce Canyon National Park, (0067_0131) (view folder 06 online)

Natural Bridge in Bryce Canyon National Park, (0067_0132) (view online) folder 06

Mountains and hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park, (0067_0133) (view online) folder 06

Hoodoos and rock formations in Bryce Canyon National Park, (0067_0134) (view folder 06 online)

Hoodoos and mountains in Bryce Canyon National Park, (0067_0135) (view online) folder 06

Governors' Conference in Boulder City, Nevada: Robert Taylor Jones of Arizona; folder 06 Nels H. Smith of Wyoming; Culbert Olson of California; Ralph Lawrence Carr of Colorado; John E. Miles of New Mexico; Edward P. Carville of Nevada; U.S. Senator Ernest McFarland of Arizona, 1940 November 16 (0067_0136) (view online)

Aerial view of downtown Las Vegas, (0067_0137) (view online) flat file 01

Main Street in Manhattan, Nevada, 1907 February 03 (0067_0138) (view online) folder 06

Portrait: Virginia and Sherwin Garside as young children, (0067_0139) (view online) folder 06

Frank Garside dressed for Helldorado Days in Las Vegas, (0067_0140) (view online) folder 06

Frank Garside dressed for Helldorado Days in Las Vegas, (0067_0141) (view online) folder 06

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Charles A. Garside Grocery storefront with two boys standing on the porch, folder 06 (0067_0142) (view online)

Artist's rendering of the new Review-Journal building, Las Vegas, Nevada, flat file (0067_0143) (view online) 01

St. George, Utah store fronts, (0067_0144) (view online) folder 06

Frank Garside standing on the porch of the Rhyolite Depot, (0067_0145) (view folder 06 online)

Three people in front of the Pacific Coast Borax Company building, (0067_0146) folder 06 (view online)

Floodwaters in Las Vegas reach building tops, (0067_0147) (view online) folder 06

Dr. (William?) Park stands on his automobile to avoid floodwaters that have engulfed folder 06 his car, (0067_0148) (view online)

Ira Earl, County Commissioner Chairman, is holding a shovel at a groundbreaking folder 06 ceremony with unidentified people, (0067_0149) (view online)

The front of the deserted Rhyolite Depot, (0067_0150) (view online) folder 06

Two boys stand in the middle of Main Street in Searchlight, Nevada, (0067_0151) folder 07 (view online)

Gypsum cave near Las Vegas shows evidence of prehistoric habitation, (0067_0152) folder 07 (view online)

One of a dozen framed buildings by the schoolhouse and a store; this saloon was one folder 07 of the famous "seven in a row" at White Hills, (0067_0153) (view online)

Post office, Milford, Utah, (0067_0154) (view online) folder 07

Nevada Club Saloon and Moapa Produce Company, (0067_0155) (view online) folder 07

Hotel Mina, (0067_0156) (view online) folder 07

Peoples Cash Store and Hotel store front, (0067_0157) (view online) folder 07

Aerial view of Black Canyon and the Colorado River before the Hoover Dam, (0158) folder 07

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