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Photograph of Tom Wah and Gue Gim Wah, Pioche (Nev.), circa 1930

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1929 to 1931

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Transcribed from behind the image,"'Tom Wah and Gue Gim Wah, his wife-when Tom's Chinese boarding house at the Prince Mine burned down, he moved into Prince one-room schoolhouse to serve meals (briefly one summer) later purchased the mine store from Hodges and Cook where a more adequate boarding house was again established- Tom died soon after. This photo taken in front of Prince schoolhouse, Pioche, Nevada.' Handwritten note by Elizabeth Gemmell Frizzell."

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pho023990

Physical Identifier

0142_0002
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    pho023990. Elizabeth Gemmell Frizzell Photograph Collection. PH-00142. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1s756r4k.

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    2973 x 4818 pixels
    4.96 x 8.03 inches
    44,157,850 bytes

    Language

    English

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

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    image/tiff