Abstract
The Irma McGonagill Photograph Collection (1870-1925) consists of thirty black-and-white photographic prints, ten postcards, and fourteen photographic negatives showing Irma McGonagill and her family in Tonopah, Nevada during the mining boom. The images depict the town of Tonopah, mines around the Tonopah area, homes in Tonopah, and the McGonagill family.
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The Irma McGonagill Photograph Collection (1870-1925) ) consists of thirty black-and-white photographic prints, ten postcards, and fourteen photographic negatives showing Irma McGonagill and her family in Tonopah, Nevada during the mining boom. The images depict the town of Tonopah, mines around the Tonopah area, homes in Tonopah, and the McGonagill family. In addition to materials focusing on day-to-day activities in Tonopah, the images provides insight into the life of the McGonagill family during the period they lived and worked in Tonopah.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See xlink:title="Reproductions and Use"> Reproductions and Use
Arrangement
Materials remain in original order.
Biographical / Historical Note
Irma Blanche McGonagill was born in King County, Washington, in September 1890 to Willie LeRoy and Lois (Coston) McGonagill. In 1900, Willie remarried to Anna Laura Thompson, a widow with three children. The McGonagill family moved from Inyo, California to Tonopah, Nevada when Irma was about twelve years old; Willie worked in a general store in the town and Anna operated a laundry. From September 1904 until March 1905, the McGonagill family lived in a tent house in Wheaton Camp in the Kawich Range, a few miles from Silver Bow, Nevada. By 1912, Irma lived in Seattle with her husband Marcus Moschetto, her sister, and her brother.
Irma McGonagill Moschetto died in July, 1971.
Preferred Citation
Irma McGonagill Photograph Collection, 1870-1925. PH-00246. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 1978 by Nanelia Doughty; accession number 79-273.
Processing Note
Materials were processed by Special Collections staff. In 2016, as part of a legacy finding aid conversion project, Maryse Lundering-Timpano wrote the collection description in compliance with current professional standards. In 2019, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Melise Leech revised the collection description to bring it into compliance with current professional standards.