Abstract
The Edith Giles Barcus Family Photograph Collection (approximately 1878-1954) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives, as well as postcards and photograph albums. The images depict locations in Nevada including Las Vegas, Goldfield, Searchlight, and Tonopah, in addition to locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Utah, and Mexico. Also included are images of family, friends, and associates of the Giles Barcus family. The albums contain photographs depicting the Giles family as they traveled through the southwest United States and Mexico, as well as postcards from prominent locations in the southwestern United States.
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The Edith Giles Barcus Family Photograph Collection (approximately 1878-1954) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives, as well as postcards and photograph albums. The images depict locations in Nevada including Las Vegas, Goldfield, Searchlight, and Tonopah, in addition to locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Utah, and Mexico. Also included are images of family, friends, and associates of the Giles Barcus family. The albums contain photographs depicting the Giles family as they traveled through the southwest United States and Mexico, as well as postcards from prominent locations in the southwestern United States.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Arrangement
Materials remain in original order.
Biographical / Historical Note
Edwin Giles was born in East Chester, New York on August 27, 1871. Giles moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado in January of 1893, where he met and married Edith Corliss. They had twins, Edith Corliss Giles and Richard Scofield Giles, on July 19, 1985. Edwin Giles worked as a mining engineer in Cripple Creek, Colorado, before following the mining boom to Nevada. The Giles family arrived in Goldfield, Nevada in 1907, where Giles began working to develop the Pioneer Mining Camp at the Pioneer Mine. Giles was elected to the position of Town Surveyor in Goldfield and held stock in most of the mines in the area. Giles remained active in politics and mining in Goldfield until his death on March 8, 1950.
His daughter, Edith Corliss Giles made a land claim on a mining property in the Mayflower District, Nevada at the age of twelve or thirteen. She married John Lucas Cadogan in approximately 1919, and they had one daughter Jane Alice Cadogan. John Lucas Cadogan died in 1941, and Edith Cadogan went on to marry J. Clyde Barcus on August 29, 1946 in Reno, Nevada. The couple remained in Goldfield operating the "Odd Shop," a jewelry, glass, and souvenir shop, until they moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1952. The two remained in Las Vegas until their respective deaths, J. Clyde Barcus in 1966, and Edith Giles Barcus in 1984.
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Genealogy files about "J. Clyde Barcus." Accessed on February 20, 2020. Accessed on Ancestry.com
Preferred Citation
Edith Giles Barcus Family Photograph Collection, approximately 1878-1954. PH-00117. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated by Edith Giles Barcus in 1980; accession numbers T183 and 1980-193.
Processing Note
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Ryan DiPaolo wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.