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Dora Lee Brown and her niece on the Yount, or Hidden Hills, Ranch, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.D. Wiley Family. Mrs. Brown and her son Steve originally lived at the Yount home on the ranch, but when Roland Wiley took possession, they moved to a nearby area in which a spring flowed and considerable vegetation was present. Wiley referred to the area as Dora's Place. In the 1970s, a flash flood destroyed the area, washing away the soil and trees and eliminating the spring.
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David Walker "Deke" Lowe, Jr., at the central train control panel, Union Station, Las Vegas: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.F. Lowe Family. David Walker "Deke" Lowe, Jr., at the central train control panel, where he worked as a train dispatcher from 1950 to 1960. The control facility was located at Union Station, Las Vegas, Nevada, present site of the Union Plaza Hotel.
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Hank Richards with Ann Redelsperger and State Senator Ken Redelsperger at the dedication of the All-Purpose Building: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.B. Records Family. From left, Hank Richards with Ann Redelsperger and State Senator Ken Redelsperger at the dedication of the All -Purpose Building, Amargosa Valley Nye County, Nevada, Nevada, November 2, 1984. Records was asked to be the Dedicator at the ceremony because he was the first to arrive in the valley and take advantage of the "Desert Entry Program", and with his brother Robert, he "knew what years people came".
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A Sunridge at MacDonald Ranch marquee on Eastern Avenue at Summit Grove Drive, looking north-northwest in Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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From the UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (PH-00394). Part of the collection documents the entire 19 mile length of the north/south Eastern Avenue / Civic Center Drive alignment. This photograph was captured in the section of Eastern Avenue between Sunridge Heights Parkway and Grand Hills Drive.
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Orville Knighten Reed's ranch at Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountains, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Helen Reed, Jack May, Frank Reed (sitting on mule), Lucille Reed, Catherine May, Florence Reed, and O.K. Reed (identified from left to right). Catherine May died out not long after this picture was taken.
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Vera and Irene "Rene" Rogers Berg Zaval (identified from left to right) at the Round Mountain boardinghouse: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.D. Zaval Family (Smoky Valley and Round Mountain). Irene and Vera worked as waitresses.
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Children and workers at Orville Knighten Reed's ranch in Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Frank May is on the far left in the back row. George Bruno is the tall man in the dark hat in the middle of the back row. It may be O.K. Reed on the far right in the back row. The three children kneeling in the front row belong to May and O.K. Reed.
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Local citizens and Tonopah Army Air Base personnel at the Ramona Hotel, Tonopah: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.G. Miscellaneous. The woman with the white corsage and hat on the right is Captain Smith’s wife; Colonel Flynn sits at her right, followed by Catherine Banovich-Lydon, and Captain Smith. The Tonopah Army Air Force Band is providing entertainment. NOTE: The image on this picture inadvertently reversed during printing.
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Initiation of the high school freshman class, Tonopah, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.F. Potts-Cirac Family. Jeanne Cirac Potts is in the back row just below the "A" in "Fountain" in the window of Ross’s Fountain on Main Street, Tonopah, Nevada. Joe Friel, wearing a large black hat, is to her immediate right. Bob Wardle is ninth from the left in the front row, wearing a wristwatch with a black band. Carr’s Meat Market is at the right, and Tonopah’s Butler Theatre is partially visible on the left.
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Roberts girls in front of their mother's house: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.E. Hawkins Family (Duckwater, Nevada).Left to right: Frances, Isabelle, Martha, Helen, Mabel. There were a total of 7 children in the family including 2 boys, whose names were Monroe and Frank, Jr. On the back of the photo is written: "(Tan Francis) says we all look too terrible to go anywhere but after all, we are just looking our everyday look. Don't ask when it was taken, I can't remember, but even if it was some ago we all look the same.".
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