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Karl "Skook" and Arlene Berg: photographic print

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1987

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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.C. Lofthouse-Berg Families (Round Mountain). The nickname “Skook” is reported to have been given to Berg by his father Will Berg, who, expecting the birth of a daughter, had no name for a boy and called him Skookum Jim, which in Alaska is said to mean, “Big, strong, healthy”. Location Unknown. 

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pho005778

Physical Identifier

0221_0983
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    pho005778. Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection, 1880-1990. PH-00221. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1rn33c6f

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