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Photograph of the ruins of Fort Callville, circa 1938
Date
1938 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Walls of Fort Callville surrounded by the rising waters of Lake Mead.
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Photograph of a house, Beatty (Nev.), 1937-1938
Date
1937 to 1938
Archival Collection
Description
This home was built in the 1920s for Billy Wilson. Transcribed from the notes attached to the picture, "House built by Luther Wilson and W.W. (Billy) Wilson (?) they never had to buy any materials-got them all from Rhyolite."
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Photograph of a schoolhouse, Beatty (Nev.), 1937-1938
Date
1937 to 1938
Archival Collection
Description
Pictured here are five children in front of the schoolhouse. From left to right: Juanita Strozzi, John Strozzi, Judd, Jack McCrea, and Judd's sister. The location of this schoolhouse is behind the Exchange Club. These were the same materials used to build Frank 'Hard Rock Harry' Oleniczak's house in Beatty.
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Photograph of salvage crew on a raft in St. Thomas, June 1938
Date
1938-06
Archival Collection
Description
Salvage crew on a raft near the ruins of a building in the town of St. Thomas as Lake Mead submerges it.
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Plat of H.F.M & M addition to city of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, comprising the west 1/2 of N.W. 1/4 Sec. 27, Twp. 20 S., R. 61 E., M.D.B & M, March 8, 1924
Date
1924-03-08
Description
Blue-line print ; 74 x 36 cm on sheet 79 x 61 cm. Survey was competed on March 8, 1924. Signed by the owners of the piece of property for the addition Roy W. Martin, Forest R. Mildren, William E. Ferron, and A. W. Ham, signed by the surveyor J.T. McWilliams, and notarized on March 31, 1924. Approved by the Board of City Commissioners and signed by the major W. C. German and by Florence S. Doherty, city clerk, on April 1, 1924. Recorded in Book 1 of plats, page 47. Includes township and range grid.
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Photograph of Elbert Edwards at Fort Callville, Nevada, circa 1938
Date
1938 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Elbert Edwards standing on one of the walls of Fort Callville nearly surrounded by the rising waters of Lake Mead.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Elbert Edwards at the ruins of Fort Callville as the waters of Lake Mead rise to cover them. (ca. 1938-39)"
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Photograph of Frazier Hall, Las Vegas, circa 1970s
Date
Unknown year in the decade of the 1970s (year uncertain; year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
The exterior view of Frazier Hall at Southern Nevada University.
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Photograph of miners in Tonopah (Nev.), circa 1938
Date
1937 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
A group of miners in Tonopah, Nevada. From left to right, the men are identified as: 1) unidentified; 2) Ed Slavin; 3) Blair Meldrum; 4) Frank LeFevre; 5) David Dunsdon; 6) Kendall; 7) Mitch Vuich; 8) Nick Banovich; and 9) unidentified. The seated man is also unidentified.
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Photograph of the California, Beatty (Nev.), 1937-1938
Date
1937 to 1938
Archival Collection
Description
A side-angle view of The California Hotel. Transcribed from the notes attached to the picture, "Building burned. It was on the corner across from present 76 Station on the same side of the street. Calif. was the first place Mrs. Chloe Lisle lived in Beatty. Her mother ran it. Job Cobb was the owner. In the background are buildings belonging to Charlie Finney who mined in the Grapevine Mts. The building on the right is lived in presently by Mark Henderson of the Exxon station. Judy's Bar replaced the building on the far right."
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