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Photograph of Lemuel and Johana Compton, circa 1890s

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Creator

Creator: Schuman, Carl

Date

1890 to 1899

Description

Portrait of Lemuel (Lem) and Johana Compton. Handwritten on back of photo: "Had a ranch in Nye County at Peavine, in the early nineties. Both of these people are buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Austin [in Lander County, Nevada]. Present owner of the Peavine ranch now Charley Keough, nephew of Mrs. Compton. Mrs. Johana Compton in the late nineties or 1900 used to deliver potatoes from Peavine Ranch to [Y?illegible] Canyon and Berlin, Grantsville [both in Nye County] which they raised at Peavine Ranch." Johana Compton, a former Union Army nurse, died whle trying to save the Peavine Ranch from fire in November 1900.

Digital ID

pho018535

Physical Identifier

0361_0155
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Citation

pho018535. Nevada Mining Photograph Collection. PH-00361. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1rr1pr0s.

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Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

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2708 x 2137 pixels
9.027 x 7.123 inches
17,361,868 bytes

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

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image/tiff