Ronzone Family papers. 1900-1991.

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Ronzone Family papers. 1900-1991.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/300138855

This collection documents the prominent Ronzone family of Las Vegas, their successful department store, and Dick Ronzone's involvement in local politics. Most materials date from the 1950s through the early 1990s. The majority of the materials are newspaper clippings that follow the political career of Dick Ronzone in the 1970s and 1980s as a member of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, Las Vegas Valley Water District, as well as university regent, Clark County Commissioner and transportation advocate. Other topics covered by the collection, also mostly through clippings, include the Ronzone family history dating back to 1900, the department store in the 1940s and 1950s, and Ann Ronzone's community activities from the 1950s to the 1990s. This collection contains newspaper clippings, documents, correspondence, certificates, ephemera, yearbooks, publications, artifacts, photographs (see separation note), and one oral history on cassette tape.

2 boxes (1.21 linear feet).

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7282143

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

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Ronzone, Ann.

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Rotary Club (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Ronzone, Richard J., 1917-1989.

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The Ronzone family were pioneers in the Las Vegas business community and Richard "Dick" Ronzone was active political figure. The Ronzones first settled in Tonopah in 1904. The financial uncertainties of mining in Nevada led them from one mining camp to another for almost a decade. It was here that Dick Ronzone was born and it was also where his mother Bertha began her business of providing clothing and basic supplies to miners, the beginning of the Ronzone's Department Store, a long-time local f...

Ronzone's Department Store (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Las Vegas Valley Water District (Nev.)

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Ronzone, Bertha.

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Nevada. Legislature. Assembly

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Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce (Nev.)

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