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Elizabeth Gemmell Frizzell Photograph Collection (PH-00142)

Abstract

The Elizabeth Gemmell Frizzell Photograph Collection, approximately 1982 to 2015, contains black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of depicting life at the Prince Mine in Pioche, Nevada. Images portray Tom Wah and his wife Gue Gim Wah posing in front of the one-room school house where Tom served meals and lived for a short time prior to purchasing the mine store. Images are reproductions created between 1982 and 2020 of scenes from approximately 1920 to 1939.

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Date

1982 to 2015

Extent

0.02 Cubic Feet (1 hanging folder and 1 shared box of negatives)
0.01 Linear Feet

Related People/Corporations

Scope and Contents Note

The Elizabeth Gemmell Frizzell Photograph Collection, approximately 1982 to 2015, contains black-and-white photographic prints and negatives depicting life at the Prince Mine in Pioche, Nevada. Images portray Tom Wah and his wife Gue Gim Wah posing in front of the one-room school house where Tom served meals and lived for a short time prior to purchasing the mine store. Images are reproductions produced between 1982 and 2020 of scenes from approximately 1920 to 1939.

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

Material remain as it was received.

Related Collections

The following resource may provide additional information related to the materials in this collection:

Gue Gim Wah oral history interviews, 1981 September 23 and 1981 September 24. OH-01890. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Preferred Citation

Elizabeth Gemmell Frizzell Photograph Collection, approximately 1982-2015. PH-00142. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Acquisition Note

Materials were loaned to UNLV Special Collections and Archives in 1982 to be reproduced; accession number 82-76.

Processing Note

In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Nicole Batten wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.

Resource Type

Collection

Collection Type

EAD ID

US::NVLN::PH00142

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