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Don Finley and Jack Parsons obtaining water for Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains southwest of Beatty, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.D. Crowell Family. Water is being taken from a well in a canyon east of Chloride Cliff.
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Students from the Round Mountain School in Nevada: 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.C. Lofthouse-Berg Families (Round Mountain). Teacher Lillian Berg is visible on the far left in the back row. Third from the left, back row is Midge Mason; 6th from left in the white shirt is George Vucanovich, husband to U. S. Representative Barbara Vucanovich; second row left to right are Ruth Manley; fourth, Shirley Ann Lofthouse; fifth, Connie Moore. The remainder of the children are unidentified.
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Aerial view of the Round Mountain Gold Company's mining operation in Nevada: 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.C. Lofthouse-Berg Families (Round Mountain). The community of Round Mountain is visible in the upper left center. The remains of Stebbins Peak can be seen on the left and Round Mountain on the right. The pit operation is visible in front of Round Mountain and Stebbins peaks. The heap leaching pads are visible as a dark wide line to the lower left of center. Looking east, Jefferson Canyon is visible in the upper center part of the pictures.
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Thomas, Georgetta, and Will Berg, taking a ride in a Travelair biplane piloted by Garland Lincoln and stunt pilot Walter "Suicide Slim" Cahill: 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.C. Lofthouse-Berg Families (Round Mountain). Lincoln and Cahill had flown the plane to Round Mountain from Los Angeles, California, to perform stunts.
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Dredge in Manhattan: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Bob Wilson's Swedish grandfather: 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.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada). Robert "Bob" Wilson’s Swedish grandfather immigrated to the United States at the age of 18. He worked for a while in Colorado as a steam engineer, and eventually ended up in Spokane, Washington, where he married and raised a family. Bob Wilson’s father, Gustavus Edward Wilson, was the oldest son of the gentleman pictured here. Bob Wilson’s grandfather was one of several investors who purchased a mine and mill in Goldfield, Nevada, in 1906, only to find that another company had previously come in and taken out the gold.
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Neighbors help the Ruuds break ground for their new home: 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.B. Ruud Family. From left: Gary Bowman and his wife Alice; Mrs. Perry Bowman; Pauline Siri; Charlotte Woner Floyd; Mary Christiansen; Pete Peterson (of California); Ed Siri (Pahrump Deputy Sheriff at the time); Carol Woner and her son Benny; (the blond-haired women is not identified); Bea Floyd; Frank Woner; Perry Bowman; Hollis Harris; Jacque and Bob Ruud.
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Max Hafen, Bob Ruud, and Tim Hafen celebrate the completion of a cattle chute: 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.B. Ruud Family. From left: Max Hefen, Bob Ruud, and Tim Hefen celebrate the completion of a cattle chute on the Ruuds' Basin Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada. The chute was put together in cooperation with the state of Nevada and some of the advisory council from the University of Nevada, Reno, and is used for vaccination and de-horning.
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People and horses at Hidden Hills Ranch: 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. The remains of a fireplace believed to have been constructed by the Indians. Left to right: Ruth Ellerbrook; unidentified; unidentified; Frank Ellerbrook, husband of Ruth Ellerbrook. Mrs. Ellerbrook was Mrs. America. In the 1930s, Bob Lee, a long-time resident of the Pahrump Valley area and at that time more than 80 years old, told Wiley that this site and another like it on the Hidden Hills Ranch was in the fallen-down condition seen here when Lee was a small boy. Lee's statement suggests that the fireplace is more than 120 years old.
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Atomic mushroom cloud from a test at the Nevada Test Site: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Look closely toward the middle of the photograph, about an inch above the Mountain range, and you'll see an atomic mushroom cloud from a test at the Nevada Test Site. Photo was taken from the front yard of Harry Ford's home in Pahrump Valley, Nevada, looking north, a little east of Mount Sterling in 1952 or 1953. From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.E. Ford Family
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