Harmon Percy Marble

In 1926, he retired from the Indian Service and moved to Long Beach, California, where he owned a cigar store.

[1] Later, he joined family in Las Vegas, Nevada and lived out his remaining years there.

He was a prominent civic leader and mayor of Las Vegas,[2] and was instrumental in establishing the first low-income family housing development in the city, which was renamed "Marble Manor" in his honor after his death in 1945.

During his government career, he took advantage of opportunities afforded by his positions to take hundreds of photographs of the Navajo, Menominee and Sioux tribes.

However, this lack of artistic sense rendered photos which offer an unvarnished portraiture of the indigenous population more so than better known images captured by contemporaries the likes of Edward Curtis and Rodman Wanamaker.