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Howard Cannon speaking at a convention at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print
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Some of the Fairbanks and Lisle family at Green Water, California: photographic print
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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. Second from left is Celesta Lisle, daughter of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks. Next to her are her brother Vern, two small unidentfied children, and her mother, Celestia Fairbanks, wife of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks and grandmother of Celesta Lisle Lowe. The man on the far left is unidentified.
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Some of the Fairbanks and Lisle Family at the China Ranch, Amargosa River: photographic print
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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. L-R: Glynn Lisle, John Lisle, Ralph Lisle; Bernice, Charles, George Brown, and perhaps Celesta Lisle Lowe May also be pictured. The woman standing at the right is Celestia Fairbanks, wife of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks.
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Construction continues on the expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center as seen from Convention Center Drive, looking north-northwest in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting ongoing construction work at the Las Vegas Convention Center expansion.
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Jimmy Lisle with his maternal grandmother Lottie Mills, in the front yard of a house on Montgomery Street, Beatty, Nevada: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.B. Lisle Family. Jimmy is the son of Chloe and Ralph Lisle. The Beatty Town Hall is visible in the distance. The hall was originally the Miners' Union Building in Rhyolite, Nevada, and was moved to Beatty. The Beatty Police Station and the Fire Hall now sit at the approximate location of this old Town Hall.
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Home of "Seldom-Seen Slim," Ballarat, California in the foothills of the Panamint Mountains: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.B. Lisle Family. Matt Ryan, an employee of the U.S. Park Service; Seldom-Seen Slim; Lottie Mills, and mother Of Chloe Lisle; a woman who worked in Trona but whose name is not recalled; and Chris West, who lived up Surprise Canyon in the Panamint Mountains (identified from left to right).
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Lois Kellogg with her prize heifer on the Arlemont Ranch, Fish Lake Valley: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.K. Miscellaneous. Lois Kellogg with her prize heifer on the Arlemont Ranch, Fish Lake Valley, Nevada, 1940 or 1941. Kellogg was born September 29, 1894, and would have been approximately 45 years old at the time this picture was taken. She purchased The Arlemont Ranch in 1938 or 1939, and raised Russian wolfhounds. It is said That she kept 125 Russian wolfhounds on the ranch. George Ishmael was the Ranch Foreman.
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Looking west toward the town of Belmont, Nevada: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). The Belmont courthouse is visible in the distance in the center of the photo. Building with tin roof located on the right was occupied by Rose Walters during the 1940s. The building was once the office of a mining company located in Belmont, and in 1985 was purchased by Nye County Commissioner Robert "Bobby" Revert from John Richardson, who had intended to make a museum out of the building. Revert remodeled the building and now uses it as a residence.
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Kenneth Hughes, brother of Pahrump resident Leon Hughes, atop a calf at the Pahrump Ranch: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.A. Hughes Family. Barn in the background is said to have been constructed prior to 1900 from timber sawed in Saw Mill Canyon in the Spring Mountains. It contained a number of stalls and mangers in which stagecoach horses were quartered. The barn was torn down when Walt Williams moved to the Pahrump Ranch, and a shop was constructed on the site.
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A semi truck drives on Desert Inn Road near Eastern Avenue, looking southwest in Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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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 Sahara Avenue and Desert Inn Road.
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