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Photograph of Pershing Quicksilver Works interior, Rochester Mining District, Nevada, October 10, 1927

Date

1927-10-10

Description

The interior of Pershing Quicksilver Works, Rochester Mining District, 20 miles north of Lovelock, Nevada. Taken during construction.

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Photograph of Ward charcoal ovens, White Pine County, Nevada, 1960-1961

Date

1960 to 1961

Description

The Ward charcoal ovens are one of many tourist attractions in White Pine County. These historic remnants of the old mining days in the West are located just outside of Ely.

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View of Cul-de-sac at Mt. Diablo Mine, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1967-06

Description

From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240). Office and superintendent's house (collapsed), taken from top of tailings dump near ruins of hoisting works building.

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Photograph of blister copper being poured at Kennecott Copper Corporation, McGill, Nevada, 1960-1961

Date

1960 to 1961

Description

The end product, blister copper, is being poured from holding furnace into conveyor belt molds. Each bar weighs approximately 400 pounds and contains 99.4 percent copper.

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Film transparency of Olive Lake, Herbert Squires, and Charles P. Squires, Mount Charleston, Nevada, 1912

Date

1912

Description

Black and white image of Olive Lake and two others, presumed to be Herbert Squires and his father, Charles P. Squires, at the Squires' mine at Mount Charleston near Las Vegas. Transcribed notes from Special Collections photo inventory: “Charleston 1912. Olive, Herbert, & Dad at his mine, 2 miles on up the Canyon.”

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Map of underground workings in Potosi and Central Lodes, May 1906

Date

1906-05

Description

'Scale 20 ft = 1 in.'

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Film transparency of Roy Mosback and Henry Lotts at Lucky Strike mine, Clark County, Nevada, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1939

Description

Black and white image of Roy Mosback and Henry Lotts at the "Lucky Strike" mine near Mount Charleston, per the handwritten description at the bottom of the image. Note: Image is from a family photo album that was loaned to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and returned to the family on July 17, 1984.

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Transcript of interview with Nancy Cummings-Schmidt by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White, October 18, 2016

Date

2016-10-18

Description

With the explosive growth of the Las Vegas Valley over the past 30 years, it is rare to find someone who has deep battle born roots that go back to the early mining days of Nevada. Nancy Cummings-Schmidt is an example of that rare kind of gem. As a fourth generation Nevadan, her family came to the state in the 1800s form Ireland and England. Looking to capitalize off of the mining boom in Virginia City, they transitioned to ranching. She spent her first years in Reno and when her father went off to fight in the Second World War, her mother moved to Herlong, California and sent her to live with her grandparents. Upon moving to Vegas for fourth grade, her mother remarried and worked for the Las Vegas Sun while Nancy attended the Fifth Street Grammar School and later became a member Las Vegas High School’s first graduating class in 1956. After graduating from high school, Nancy invested in the spirit of wanderlust as it carried her to study theatre at Texas Christian University (which sh

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Map of the Rawhide Mining District, Rawhide (Nev.), 1900-1925

Description

Caption: Proven zone, Rawhide Mining District, Nevada

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