Materials contain photographs from 1890 to 1985 of the Fishel and Records families, two families who had ranches in the Amargosa Valley in Nye County, Nevada. Materials include photographs of ranch houses, harvests, fields, wagons, animals, railroads, irrigation systems, and early buildings.

Materials contain photographs of families and ranches around Beatty, Nevada from 1904 to 1989. Materials include photographs of the Brockman, Lisle, Revert, Crowell, Lemmon, Palsgrove, and Reidhead families, documenting activities such as events on Main Street, construction of several buildings, protests against the Nevada Test Site, animal husbandry, railroad transportation (especially by the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad), education, and mining and milling.