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Scrapbook of Clyde and Edith Barcus, Tonopah (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Site Name: The Bottle House (Rhyolite, Nev.)
Piper's Opera House (Virginia City, Nev.)
Goldfield Hotel (Goldfield, Nev.)
Piper's Opera House (Virginia City, Nev.)
Goldfield Hotel (Goldfield, Nev.)
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Photograph of town hall and movie theater, Beatty (Nev.), early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Patron provided the following comment: This was located in the 200 block of West Montgomery behind where the ambulance garage is now. Building originally was the Miner's Union Hall in Rhyolite. It was moved to Beatty in 1914.
Caption: The hall affording dances and movies.
Caption: The hall affording dances and movies.
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Photograph of Jesse Christensen home, Bullfrog Hills (Nev.), early 1900s
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Per patron comments, this home was one of two twin houses that stood next to each other on Knob Hill in Rhyolite before it was moved to Beatty. Patron also commented that Jesse Christensen was the Beatty postmaster, and that an outline of the Exchange Club is visible on the right.
Caption: Home of Jesse Christensen. Beatty, Nevada, where he first saw her.
Caption: Home of Jesse Christensen. Beatty, Nevada, where he first saw her.
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Photograph of students and teachers outside of a school, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
School children and teachers pose outside a one-story wooden building identified as "the only school in Las Vegas at the time". The school building was moved by railroad from Rhyolite to the corner of 2nd Street and Lewis in Las Vegas. People identified in the photo are, beginning with front row, left to right: #1: sister of #5 (name unknown); #5: sister of #1 (name unknown); #7: Kessler ( Ernie May's sister); #9: Otto "Kelly" Westlake; #10: Ernie May; #29 Older son of Tom Squires; #38: Tom Lake; #40: Mrs. Palmer (teacher who ran the high school); #41: Mrs. Bartlet (teacher who ran the grammar school). Approximate date between 1905-1910.
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Newspaper, The Bullfrog Miner, December 21, 1907
Date
1907-12-21
Description
Newspaper, The Bullfrog Miner, December 21, 1907
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Newspaper clippings, Las Vegas Tonopah Railroad, 1907
Date
1907
Archival Collection
Description
Newspaper clippings, Las Vegas Tonopah Railroad, 1907
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Unidentified desert landscape: photographic print
Date
1900 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Desert landscape with small town in the valley - location unknown.
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Unidentified group of men at a dinner: photographic print
Date
1900 (year approximate) to 1915 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
A dinner event with many men sitting and standing in a small room. The tables are covered with dinnerware - all men are unidentified and location is unknown.
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