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Photograph of survey party with instruments, San Pedro (Nev.), 1903

Date

1903

Description

Survey party with instruments, second from left is Rass Ronnow.

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Photograph of people standing on stairs of Lincoln County High School, Panaca (Nev.), 1912

Date

1912

Description

Photograph of people standing on stairs of Lincoln County High School, Panaca (Nev.), 1912

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Photograph of the Panaca town band posing near a stand of trees, Panaca (Nev.), 1904

Date

1904

Description

Photograph of the Panaca town band posing near a stand of trees, Panaca (Nev.), 1904

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Photograph of the Searchlight riverboat on the Colorado River, 1903

Date

1903

Description

Photograph of the Searchlight riverboat on the Colorado River, 1903

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Photograph of people outside of the First State Bank of Las Vegas (Nev.), 1905

Date

1905

Description

Three buildings visible in McWilliams' Townsite. The center building is occupied by the First State Bank of Las Vegas and Kuhn's Mercantile. The building on the right is the U.S. Post Office. The building on the left is unidentified.
Site Name: First State Bank (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Photograph of Clark County Courthouse, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1920s-1930s

Date

1920 to 1939

Description

The exterior of the second Clark County Courthouse, a Beaux Arts style building designed by Nevada-born architect Frederic DeLongchamps, built in 1914.

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Photograph of schoolchildren and teachers, Clover Valley School, Lincoln County, Nevada, circa 1907-1909

Date

1907

Description

A group of Clover Valley, Nevada schoolchildren and teachers. Front row: Ivan Empey, Clair Terry, Horald Woods, Fred Woods, Grant Woods, Marion Terry. Second row: Albert Woods, Erma Woods, Elsie Empey, Inez Empey. Third Row: Lamar Empey, Ada Woods, Ione Terry, Mary Jensen (teacher), Orilla Woods, Lyman Woods. Seated: Lyman Lafayette Woods ("Grandpa Woods"), who was the maternal grandfather of Elbert Edwards. Albert, Ada, Orilla, Erma,Lyman and Horald Woods and Elsie and Ivan Empey were cousins of Maribah Woods Edwards (mother of Elbert Edwards). Ione and Marion Terry were Elbert Edwards' cousins.

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Photograph of schoolchildren and teachers, Paradise School, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1924

Date

1924 (year approximate)

Description

Schoolchildren and teachers at Paradise School, Las Vegas, Nevada. The teacher was Lillian Gentry Barnum (cousin of Mary Reid Edwards, who was the wife of Elbert Edwards). The class includes an African American girl and several Chinese American children.

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Photograph of Charlotte Terry, Roxa Terry and Lafeyette ("Lafey") Woods, April 1895

Date

1895-04

Description

Portrait of Elbert Edwards' maternal aunts, Charlotte Malinda Woods Terry and Roxa Jane Woods Terry and maternal uncle, Joseph Lafeyette Woods. Handwritten by Elbert Edwards on back of photograph: "Mama gave this to me March 26, 1937. It is Aunt Wolinda [sic] Woods Terry, Aunt Roxa Woods Terry, Uncle Lafey [Lafeyette] Woods. My mother was Maribah Woods. Her other brothers were Carlos, Lyman, James, Lamond, Jasper, Albert and Lafayette."

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Photograph of George and Maribah Edwards, December 8, 1891

Date

1891-12-08

Description

Ellbert Edwards's parents George Edwards and Maribah Woods Edwards. Probably a wedding portrait.

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