View of Clark County Court House from the lawn outside. The court house was built in 1914. Inscribed on the photo is "Oakes, Court House Las Vegas." Site Name: Clark County Court House, Las Vegas (Nev.)
Time capsule plaque placed at the opening of the Union Pacific Depot in 1940. It was opened in 1970 when the depot was razed to make space for the Union Plaza Hotel. The plaque reads: "Las Vegas, Nevada, Passenger Depot, Union Pacific Railroad. H. L. Gogerty, Architect. Ryberg Bros, Builders. Erected 1940. Elev. 2027.8."
Students at the Las Vegas [Grammar] School dressed in various costumes for the Helldorado Days festival. Site Name: Las Vegas Grammar School (Las Vegas, Nev.)
School children dancing on the lawn at Las Vegas [Grammar] School, 4th and Bridger Streets. Site Name: Las Vegas Grammar School (Las Vegas, Nev.) Street Address: 401 South Las Vegas Boulevard
Group photo of unidentified members of the Clark County High School basketball team posing with a basketball. Written on the ball is "CCH '12." Site Name: Las Vegas High School (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Yearbook page from Rose Polytechnical Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Rose Polytechnical Institute later changed names and is now known as the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. C.D. Baker is first person in fourth row. The description in the yearbook reads, "The 1922 Modulus." Site Name: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, Ind.)
The town of Lucky Boy was born as a result of the discovery of lead-silver ore in the vicinity in 1906. The camp experienced a boom in 1908 when exploration opened a number of rich veins in the district. Lucky Boy's population peaked in the 1910 at over 800, then declined rapidly as the high grade was mined out. The mines produced ore on a small scale through the 1950s.
A Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad train takes on water and fuel at Millers, NV, winter, 1933. "The winter of '33 was one of the most severe recorded in central Nevada up to that time. Snow isolated many outlying communities for weeks at a time and temperatures dropped to the -30s. On a number of occasions the trains were marooned in the snow drifts between Millers, Tonopah and Goldfield and had to be dug out by hand."