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Letter from C. A. Earle Rinker to his mother, March 16, 1908
Date
1908-03-16
Archival Collection
Description
Letter to his mother. Rinker told his mother not to worry about him working in the mines. He explains how above ground work is safe and below ground work is where it is dangerous.
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Letter from C. A. Earle Rinker to Frank Crampton, March 8, 1957
Date
1957-03-08
Archival Collection
Description
C.A. Earle Rinker's reminiscences of mining and assaying life in Goldfield, Nevada, in the first decade of the 1900s. He recalls two different shootings, drilling contests, water use by the local hotels and a 1907 influenza epidemic.
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Postcard of the Goldfield Episcopal Church, Goldfield (Nev.), 1900-1925
Date
1909 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Caption: Built in Goldfield Nevada about 1909 and then torn down! Windows smashed, a bulldoser was used, the beams were then taken to Lake Taho for a chapel there, Why? Such is the life of a church in a Nevada mining camp. Mrs. Spraig was credited with the building being built among others.
Site Name: Goldfield Episcopal Church (Goldfield, Nev.)
Site Name: Goldfield Episcopal Church (Goldfield, Nev.)
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Photograph of Ruth McGonagill and an infant in front of a tent, Silverbow (Nev.), 1904
Date
1904
Archival Collection
Description
Ruth McGonagill and a neighbor's baby at tent house with pipe from milk can stove. The family lived here, in the Kawich Range, from about September 1904 through March 1905. (This camp was called Wheaton and was a couple miles up the gully from Silver Bow, Nevada)
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