The Edith Giles Barcus Family Photograph Collection (approximately 1878-1954) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives, as well as postcards and photograph albums. The images depict locations in Nevada including Las Vegas, Goldfield, Searchlight, and Tonopah, in addition to locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Utah, and Mexico. Also included are images of family, friends, and associates of the Giles Barcus family. The albums contain photographs depicting the Giles family as they traveled through the southwest United States and Mexico, as well as postcards from prominent locations in the southwestern United States.
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The Whitney Family Collection of Bunkerville, Nevada Photographs (approximately 1900-1930) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives depicting Agnes Murphy Neve, Luke Whitney, Julia Whitney, and Alfred Syphus near the Whitney family ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada. One image portrays an overflow drainage pipe connected to the St. Thomas pond near Bunkerville, Nevada.
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The Lois Wright Potter and Logan Wright Photograph Collection (approximately 1895-1931) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives. The images depict Southern Nevada towns, including Delamar, Hiko, Pioche, Tonopah, Richardville, Pahranagat, Alamo, and Goodsprings, Nevada.
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The Edward Joseph Deck Photograph Collection (approximately 1870-1920) consists of photographic prints and negatives of Edward Joseph Deck and other miners in Pioche, Nevada and various locations around the townsite. There are also images of ranches, mills, and mill workers both in and outside of the Pioche townsite.
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The Thomas J. Osborne Photograph Collection (approximately 1890-1930) consists of black-and-white photographic prints, negatives, and slides. Images depict the family of Thomas J. Osborne, his law office, the family home, and views of the town of Pioche, Nevada and surrounding areas. Several images depict local mines and unidentified mine workers.
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The Minnie Perchetti Photograph Collection (approximately 1902-1959) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives of Tonopah, Nevada and documents Tonopah in the first half of the 20th century. The photographs depict mines, events, buildings, people, and landscapes in Tonopah, Nevada. Included in the collection are photographs of the 1923 fire in Goldfield, Nevada.
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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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The J. Ross Clark Photograph Collection (approximately 1900-1920) consists of black-and-white photographic prints and some corresponding negatives. Images depict J. Ross Clark, his wife Miriam Evans Clark, their grandson James Ross Clark II, and several unidentified individuals.
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The Austin R. Wardle Photograph Collection (1907) consists of three black-and-white photographic prints of the main street and schoolhouse in Tonopah, Nevada. Also included are three photographic reproductions and three negatives of the originals. Two images show the funeral procession of Wardle's younger brother, Orley, who died of meningitis at the age of eight; the remaining image shows the Tonopah schoolhouse with children lined up in preparation for the funeral procession.
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The Dorothy Casner Evans Photograph Collection (approximately 1930-1979) consists of black-and-white and color photographic prints, negatives, and slides. The images primarily depict Dorothy Evans, Dave Roberts, and Ellen Roberts in Tonopah, Nevada. Also included are images of people transporting their homes using flat-bed trucks to different locations in Tonopah.
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