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Wilma and Burt Bass oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02273

Archival Collection

Photograph of Burt Bass and Rita Rudner, undated

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Collection Number: MS-00716
Collection Name: Burt and Wilma Bass Photographs and Programs
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Burt and Wilma Bass Photographs and Programs

Identifier

MS-00716

Archival Collection

Bass, Wilma, 1939-

Wilma (Frank) Bass (1939- ) is a retired Las Vegas, Nevada jewelry salesperson. Born and raised in New York, New York, Bass graduated from high school around 1958. She married Burt Bass in 1960 and the family moved to Las Vegas in the 1974.

Person

Bass, Burt (Burton), 1932-

Burton Bass (1932- ) is a photographer and owner of Burton Studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York and practiced photography from the time he was a child. Bass opened his first professional photography studio in 1962, shortly after he married Wilma Frank in 1960. In 1974 the couple moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where Bass worked for his brother-in-law Ed Frank's check cashing businesses. In 1979 Bass opened his own photography business, Burton Studio.

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