LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – UNLV students are hard at work preserving the images and records of Las Vegas photographer Clinton Wright, whose decades of work shed light into African American life and experience in the 1960s and beyond.
Clinton Wright was the official photographer for the Las Vegas Sentinel-Voice from the 1960s and beyond. Wright donated 8,200 negatives and the rights of the images to the UNLV Special Collections and Archives, all for people across the world to view and use for learning and research.
UNLV students have been hard at work digitizing the images and adding the “metadata”: locations, names, organizations, dates and other historical references, all for easier discovery in the search engine.
“I was encouraged by this gentleman that worked with the newspaper, and he told me, you should record all of this and someday it might be good to look back,” Wright said.
“It’s touching– who has availability [to see them] and what it all means,” Wright said.
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