Abstract
The Don T. Walker Photograph Collection (1900-1995) is comprised of black-and-white and color photographs taken by or belonging to Las Vegas photographer and Nevada historian Don Travis Walker. The photographs taken by Walker include ghost towns in Nevada, Arizona, and California, as well as a series on Phil Benson, editor and publisher of the Southern Nevada Times. Other items in the collection include photographs taken by other people related to the Moulin Rouge Hotel in Las Vegas, various photographs of historic sites in Nevada, and a program from the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society for its "Moulin Rouge: History in the Making" exhibition.
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The Don T. Walker Photograph Collection (1900-1995) is comprised of black-and-white and color photographs taken by or belonging to Las Vegas photographer and Nevada historian Don Travis Walker. The photographs taken by Walker include ghost towns in Nevada, Arizona, and California, as well as a series on Phil Benson, editor and publisher of the Southern Nevada Times. Other items in the collection include photographs taken by other people related to the Moulin Rouge Hotel in Las Vegas, various photographs of historic sites in Nevada, and a program from the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society for its "Moulin Rouge: History in the Making" exhibition.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Arrangement
Materials remain in original order.
Biographical / Historical Note
Don Travis Walker (1939-2013) was a photographer and Nevada historian. Walker was born June 3, 1939, in Hugo, Oklahoma to J.T. Walker and Anna Mae Richards. He received his college degree from Langston University in 1963 and served in the U.S. Navy in 1963. After his discharge from the Navy, Walker worked at the Nevada Test Site as a communications firefighter specialist for 44 years until his retirement in 2007. Starting in the late 1980s, Walker began photographing various ghost towns throughout Nevada, Arizona, and California. Walker died August 16, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Source:
Walker, Don T. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Accessed October 19, 2018.
https://obits.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/lvrj/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=166578138
Preferred Citation
Don T. Walker Photograph Collection, 1900-1995. PH-00280. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Accession number 1996-026.
Processing Note
In 2018, as part of the archival backlog elimination project, Douglas Emery created the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.