From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). Governor Richard Bryan congratulates representative of the Clark County Mother of the Year Awards Committee for their dedicated public service during the past 15 year. From left to right is Dottie Price, Ruth Lee Cooper, Marie Ripps, Chairman/Coordinator Fedora Bontempi Simpkin, and Gwen Weekes Rahner in 1984.
Unidentified people play in the swimming hole of Ladd's Resort in Las Vegas, NV. A rope is tied along the water between two trees that swimmers are holding on to. [Taken in the early 1900s]
An aerial view of McGill, Nevada. At Kennecott's McGill reduction plant, ore from Liberty Pit was crushed, ground, chemically treated and smelted to produce copper. Buildings at the lower right form the concentration section, while the smelter area is seen at the top, center and the town of McGill at left.
The interior of Wellington saloon with the owners Burdick & Thurman. Handwritten identification on a note attached to the back of the image: 1) Ray Thurman 2) Tom Davis 3) [?] 4) "Vic" Troise 5) Charles Frost 6) Ray Rice 7) John Howe 8) Lewis - a car (?) 9) C. E. Burdick 10) [?] 11) [?] 12) [?] 13) [?] 14) [?] 15) [?] 16) [?] 17) [?] 18) [?] 19) [?] 20) Ed Martin 21) Howard Pukins 22) [?] 23) [?] 24) [?] 25) [?] 26) Light Wheatley.
Transcribed from the picture, "Shoshone - 6. Shoshone families of Smokey Valley displaying game after a hunt. The Shoshones of this area moved to the Duckwater reservation in 1940. Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada. Courtesy of Dannie Millett."
A picture of a Shoshone woman standing by her horse and wagon. "Shoshone - 7. Horse and wagon was the means of transportation for the Shoshones until the early 1940's, as shown by this woman of the Battle Mountain Colony. Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada. Courtesy of The National Archives."
Transcribed from photograph, "Washo - 4. Dat-So-La-Lee with her husband, Charley Keiser, outside their home in Carson City, Nevada. Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada. Courtesy of Nevada Historical Society."
Transcribed from photograph, "Washo - 7. Many Washo children attended the Carson Indian School at Stewart, Nevada. This school, originally established for the Washo, was later attended by the other Nevada tribes. Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada."