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Photograph of New York Store Baseball team, Las Vegas, circa 1910s

Date

1910 to 1919

Description

I.M. Poff's New York Store baseball team (L-R, Top row) Bill Thomas, Bilt Mitchell, "Curly" Fennel - Captain of ball club, "Tubby" Sears (L-R Bottom row) Walter McCormic, Oswald, Jack Seller "Cocky" Voris John Kramer, Harley Harmon Shores, I.M. Poff.

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Photograph of New York Store baseball team, circa 1915

Date

1910 to 1919

Description

New York Store baseball team. Top: Walter Houek (pitcher), Ben Emerick (pitcher), Frank Black, Harry Beale, Floyd Alter (left fielder), Curly Fennel (Captain, 1st base) Sears (2nd base). Bottom row: McCormick (right fielder and pitcher), Oswald, Jack Seller, Cocky Vorhis (short stop), John kramer (manager), Harley Harmon (sports writer), Shores (catcher).

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Photograph of Harry Floyd Alter, Las Vegas, circa 1905-1915

Date

1905 to 1915

Description

Harry Floyd Alter "The Author" posing for his picture.

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Photograph of R.E. Lake and Earle Eglington at Balance Rock, Las Vegas, circa 1916

Date

1916

Description

R.E. Lake Sr. and son-in-law Earle Eglington standing at Balance Rock near old Potosi Mine.

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Photograph of Spud Lake and Charlie Brown, Nevada, circa 1910s

Date

1910 to 1919

Description

Spud Lake (right) and Charlie Brown (left) posing for a picture in military uniforms.

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Photograph album 2, Leon Rockwell Collection, circa 1860s-1910s

Date

1860 to 1910
1905 to 1919

Description

Decorative advertising for M. de ver Westcott Photographers, Cortland, N.Y. appears on some photographs.

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Photograph album 3, Leon Rockwell Collection, circa 1860s-1910s

Date

1860 to 1910
1905 to 1919

Description

Cover is embossed with the title "Our Friends" and title page says "The Primrose Album."

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Photograph album 4, Leon Rockwell Collection, circa 1860s-1910s

Date

1860 to 1910
1905 to 1919

Description

Cover is bound in velvet with embroidered flowers. Decorative advertising for P. J. Ward Photographers, Horse Heads, N.Y.; Gates Brothers Photographers, Shelton's Block, Watkins, N.Y.; J. E. Larkin Photographers, Elmira, N.Y.; and Mills & Son Photographers, Main Street, Penn Yan, N.Y. appears on back of some photographs. Two photographs have hand-cancelled U.S. Internal Revenue Service proprietary stamps on their backs.

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Photograph of eight men outside of the Rawhide Consolidated Mines Company office, Rawhide, Nevada, 1908

Date

1908

Description

Eight men identified as miners pose with a dog outside of the Rawhide Consolidated Mines Company office, Rawhide, Nevada. Caption: "Original miners in Rawhide, Nevada."

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Photograph of Lemuel and Johana Compton, circa 1890s

Date

1890 to 1899

Description

Portrait of Lemuel (Lem) and Johana Compton. Handwritten on back of photo: "Had a ranch in Nye County at Peavine, in the early nineties. Both of these people are buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Austin [in Lander County, Nevada]. Present owner of the Peavine ranch now Charley Keough, nephew of Mrs. Compton. Mrs. Johana Compton in the late nineties or 1900 used to deliver potatoes from Peavine Ranch to [Y?illegible] Canyon and Berlin, Grantsville [both in Nye County] which they raised at Peavine Ranch." Johana Compton, a former Union Army nurse, died whle trying to save the Peavine Ranch from fire in November 1900.

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